Thank you, Padmini-ji. Do you have the Latin name? Regards. On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Padmini Raghavan <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is the Fly Agaric mushroom. It has hallucinatory and intoxicating > properties. > It is placed in a plate of milk to attract and drown flies. > The Laplanders fed it to their reindeer and collected their urine from > which they brewed an intoxicating drink. > Lewis Carrol is supposed to have used this info ( the hallucinatory > effect) to present his Caterpillar - of Alice in Wonderland fame- sitting > on a bright crimson mushroom with splotches of white, smoking a hookah. > > Padmini Raghavan. > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Amit Ray <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Photographed in shola forest near Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu in September >> 1991. >> >> >> -- >> Amit Ray >> 25B Central Road >> Kolkata 700032 >> India >> URL: http://wildlifeindia.freehostia.com >> Phone: +91 033 24136034 >> Mobile: +919433715107 >> Email: >> 1) [email protected] >> 2) [email protected] >> 3) [email protected] >> 4) [email protected] >> 5) [email protected] >> 6) [email protected] >> 7) [email protected] >> 8) [email protected] >> >> >> >> > -- Amit Ray 25B Central Road Kolkata 700032 India URL: http://wildlifeindia.freehostia.com Phone: +91 033 24136034 Mobile: +919433715107 Email: 1) [email protected] 2) [email protected] 3) [email protected] 4) [email protected] 5) [email protected] 6) [email protected] 7) [email protected] 8) [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
