This is the Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria) – aka the mushroom from Super Mario Brothers. It’s famous, yet I think the general consensus is that you should never ever eat it. That’s probably the safest thing to do, but did you know that it was used for thousands of years by our ancestors?

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0:00 – Intro
1:03 – The Legend of Santa Claus and Amanita Pee!
2:21 – Mushroom hunt
2:52 – Mushroom Time-lapses
2:42 – When are changes updated?
3:06 – Amanita and Mycorrhizal Associations
3:52 – Identification of Amanita muscaria.
5:17 – Amanita Chemistry
6:20 – Decarboxylation
7:07 – What the mushroom does
8:11 – Conclusions

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