Amanita

How To Use Amanita In A Sentence

• I wanted to believe it was a love potion but … could that dried bit have been amanita? The Book of Unholy Mischief
• Methods The clinical phenomena, laboratory test, histological changes of important organ and results of treatment about a disaster of 19 Amanita phalloides poisoning patients were studied.
• Figure 58 and the small plant in Fig. 56, both from photographs of the sooty form of _Amanita phalloides_, show in a striking manner the typical condition of the circumscissile volva margining the broad saucer-like bulb as described for _Amanita mappa_. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
• Elsewhere we marveled at the intricate rusted ironworks designs in the latest video of Amanita's upcoming adventure game Machinarium, saw Minotaur China Shop (and Jetpack Brontosaurus, coincidentally) creators Flashbang poke gentle fun at Braid creator Jon Blow, and found a wonderful series of T-shirts based on the glitched-out boot-up sequences of arcade games. Boing Boing
• That the food fetish has its erotic component is suggested by the means of poison — Amanita phalloides — and by the way Merricat so totally depends upon her older sister as a food provider, as if she were an unweaned infant and not a "great child" grown into an adult. The Witchcraft of Shirley Jackson
• So just because you see a rabbit gorging itself on death-cap mushrooms - Amanita phalloides - don't assume you can do the same.
• Later it was named muscarin, and now is sometimes known as amanitin, since it is confined to the mushrooms of the Amanita genus. The Treasure-Train
• The last medical case was about alpha-amanitin toxin derived from Amanita mushrooms. Nuwen's Med Blog
• The variable condition in this one species _A. phalloides_, now splitting at the apex, now tearing up irregularly, now splitting in a definitely circumscissile manner, seems to bid defiance to any attempt to separate the species of _Amanita_ into groups based on the manner in which the volva ruptures. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
• Just two months ago, the Chronicle reported on three members of a Bay Area family — a grandmother and two preteen boys — that had been hospitalized after harvesting and eating amanita phalloida (aka “death cap”) mushrooms, a sister species to the kind that killed the Santa Barbara octogenarian. When Urban Gleaning Goes Wrong « Scavenging