Fly agaric  (Amanita muscaria)

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For more on the fly agaric and Christmas, see: Who put the fly agaric into Christmas? (The Seventh International Mycological Conference):
http://www.uio.no/conferences/imc7/NFotm99/December99.htm
For information on the conservation of fungi see Peter Marren's article 'waxcaps and woodland mushrooms' from Plant Talk on-line, available at:
http://www.plant-talk.org/Pages/26fungi.html

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