“The Amanita phalloides,” I said to him, “holds three different poisons. There is amanitin, which works slowly and is most potent. There is phalloidin, which acts at once, and there is phallin, which dissolves red corpuscles, although it is the least potent. The first symptoms do not appear until seven to twelve hours after eating, in some cases not before twenty-four or even forty hours. The symptoms begin with violent stomach pains, cold sweat, vomiting—”
Careful with this mushroom, whose nicknames are green
hemlock, fungus of death or death cap. These nicknames themselves make you mistrust
them.
With regards to the three different poisons, I don´t
know if you can choose one or the three of them act simultaneously. If I had to
choose, I´d have doubts between phallin or phalloidin. But you must know that
if you eat it, you´ll be on the list of victims of this mushroom, and there are
two emperors on this list, Claudio and Carlos VI.
And Wikipedia says that ´according to some reports,
its taste is nice´…
