Amanita

Wherever there is cryptology, there is espionage and there are deadly poisons. Several species of Amanita are to be found in the area. These are naturally present in the boreal forest and tundra, where the mycelia are in symbiosis with rich beds of moss, birches and spruces.

Aerobic exercise and a well-balanced diet of fresh foods are crucial to building up and maintaining the body's resistance and immunity to the toxins in these mushrooms which will inevitably be encountered by accident in minute doses out in the woods.

Death caps and destroying angels are, well, deadly. Fly agarics are poisonous, but claims that they are hallucinogenic are probably overrated.

There is a faint, sickly sweet, earthy odor of death at first, and within a few seconds, it undergoes a chemical reaction and burns like a caustic acid in one's nostrils, and causes a stomachache similar to cyanide poisoning.

Nevertheless, these mushrooms have their uses. The mycelia of any or all of them, growing in thick beds of moss on a healthy boreal forest floor, have long been used as fine soft toilet paper or sanitary or baby wipes in woodland emergencies, and taking care to handle them in a manner of handling filth, one should not be poisoned by them. Fly agarics are thought to kill flies and mosquitoes.

Death cap

Destroying angel

Fly agaric