The Amanita muscaria or fly swatter Mushroom Tinctures is the most recognizable and drawn mushroom that we can find in the backcountry. We tell you how to fete it and why it's so well given.At the Casa de las Setas we like mushrooms, all of them, and the one known as cover swatter couldn't be less. But indeed to search for this peculiar mushroom you'll need to have your outfit ready. Your handbasket, pack, cutter, GPS,. You'll find any element that you're going to need in our online store specialized in collecting, growing and tasting mushrooms.
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One of the most frequent and at the same time poisonous mushrooms in our mountains.
The muscaria is, without a mistrustfulness, one of the most recognizable and studied species of poisonous mushrooms. It'll be because it's one of the most frequent species in our mountains, or because it's the typical dwarf mushroom that we've seen reproduced so numerous times. But without a mistrustfulness it's one of the mushrooms most used by our ancestors for its psychoactive parcels.
We're going to describe the characteristics of this mushroom to be suitable to separate it with certainty
Characteristics of the cover swatter or reig bord mushroom.
When we talk about A muscaria we relate to a species that we can find abundantly and by numerous different territories. That's why their popular names are so abundant. We're going to list them because surely you know some of them
Names of the Muscaria or mushroom of the dwarfs.The name of the mushroom of the dwarfs or A muscaria is given by the paralyzing effect it exerts on certain types of insects.
Surely we're facing the queen of popular names. numerous of them are veritably descriptive of both her characteristic form and her hallucinogenic goods.
In Spanish it's known as mushroom of the canvases or fly swatter, sign of the joint, hongaracha, flycatcher or false oronja for its resemblance with the amanita caesarea
In Basque it's called kuleto faltsua or kuleto palisoa, amoroto or amaroto. In Catalan reig de fageda or reig bord, reig vermell or tinyós. The popular name of this mushroom in English is Fly agaric
amanita muscaria- the mushroom house.
What are the characteristics to fete the cover swatter?
We're going to list the characteristics that separate this curious mushroom from other analogous bones
chapeau The Amanita muscaria is a mushroom that draws a lot of attention It's due to the colors and tones of its chapeau and also to the large size that adult samples can reach, up to 26- 28 cm in periphery. We're going to describe its corridor precisely so as not to confuse this amanita with others.
When the mushroom is still youthful, a white robe protects the chapeau. As the chapeau grows, this robe breaks and small pieces remain attached to the chapeau. It's the characteristic white spots that make this mushroom unmistakable.
A quality of the cuticle of A muscaria is its violent color. It goes from an violent red in the youthful state to orange tones in the adult state. On it, as we've formerly said, small pieces of the white robe are stuck concentrically. Another specific of the reig bord cuticle is that it comes off fluently.
The muscaria blades are veritably pure white. They're veritably tight and they're free. They've numerous plates between the wastes, interspersed between them.
The bottom of the cover swatter is characterized by being relatively slender. It also comes off veritably fluently from the chapeau. It's solid and generally widens at the base. The amanita muscaria presents an apparent ring, white in color that with age generally has a unheroic- cream periphery and that fades in adult samples.
The multitudinous concentric knobs on the volva are characteristic.
The taste and smell of the amanita isn't veritably conspicuous, while its meat is whitish and relatively fragile.
What are the main territories of the cover agaric mushroom?
This mushroom in Spain can be set up in numerous veritably different territories. It's a veritably common mushroom in utmost businesses
We can find it in Mediterranean timbers where we can find it under holm oaks, oaks, groaner trees, pine trees, and also together with Mediterranean shrubs similar as sticky rockroses and chaguazos and heathers.
It's also present in Eurosiberian timbers of birch Betula pendula, Betula pubescens and beech Fagus sylvatica, Scots pine Pinus sylvestris, fir Abies alba, limeTilia platyphyllos.
It has a preference for timbers at heights between ocean position and measures above ocean position on acidic or decalcified soils and at heights between ocean position and measures above ocean position.
When is the fruiting season of the A muscaria?
This species can be considered as a globetrotter. It's virtually present on all mainlands and in Spain its distribution is veritably wide. Its fruiting season is repeated time after time in the same timbers with the appearance of afterlife.
What types of kinds of Amanita muscarias can we find?
It's a species that presents a great variability. Some of the species of Amanita muscaria that we can find are
This variety is characterized by having an orange-red cuticle and, as a general rule, it doesn't present knobs or robe remains.
Its golden yellowish cuticle with unheroic knobs and the volva with unheroic knobs. We find it under mountain coniferous timbers.
Mediterranean thermophilic muscaria that we can find in Mediterranean timbers of holm oaks, cork oaks and oaks.
It's the lowest of all kinds. It has a pale argentine robe. We find it associated with rockroses, in thermophilic areas where it appears in cornucopia.
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