"OmManiPadmeOmelet" > wrote in message
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> And if you are going to attempt to cultivate Amanita, they are a
> symbiont with certain types of conifers,

Indeed they are mychorizal fungi, relationships not restricted to conifers,
though. The A. muscaria you mention grows with birch, conifers, occasionally
with beech, and has been shown to be adaptive to 'new' trees also - they
took to growing with eucalyptus when they found there way to Australia, for
instance.

> and A. muscaria is better.....

Than A. virosa? I would say A. virosa (and A. phalloids) are far superior
killers to A. muscaria, so I suppose it depends on what you are trying to
achieve huh? ',;~}~



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