Mushrooms Amanita muscaria

Red mushroom is common in coniferous, mixedand birch forests . It grows in July - October . Red fly agaric not be confused with any fungus or from a distance, or close . To distinguish it from other mushrooms easy to bright red hat with white spots . This mushroom is poisonous and by eating can cause poisoning with original features . Amanita muscaria is poisonous hallucinogenic mushrooms . Fatal poisoning it causes only in rare cases . On its properties in the XVII century drew attention to travelers who visited Siberia in those days . They watched as the men who lived there some tribes ate dried purple mushroom cap with warts on the surface or prepare a decoction of them with water or milk . Approximately minutes later30 of those who took this food, there comes a special condition, like intoxication, the transition to pleasant dreams with visual hallucinations . About an hour passed by fungi . Scientists suggest that this condition could cause contained in A. muscaria alkaloid Muscimol and to an even greater extent ibotenicacid . However, recent experiments carried out in the United States and Japan, have not confirmed the hallucinogenic properties of this mushroom in persons who participated in such experiments, there were only signs of extreme intoxication . It is also possible that in some regions of Siberia grows subspecies characterized by a high content of toxic substances . Amanita muscariagrows abundantly throughout the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere . It can be found in summer and autumn in all forests, but more often - in coniferous . Related species - royal agaric (A . Regalis), grows mainly in Northern Europe, in the foothills and mountains, spruce forests . In the south of Europe does not appear. Just as poisonous as Amanita muscaria .