Les merveilleux CHAMPIGNONS de la Libye (1985) part 2 : Guides d'achat eBay

The description of this issue is divided in four sections. This is part 2 of 4.

The Libyan issue was released on July 15th, 1985. It is made of 16 stamps, 50 dirhams each, printed in minisheet, size mm.198x150.

   minisheet of 16 (detail)

Coriolus hirsutus   -   (Wulfen) Pat., 1897 [Also named Trametes hirsuta by (Wulfen) Pilàt in 1939)   -   Order Polyporales, Family Polyporaceae   -   Edibility: inedible

Cortinarius subfulgens   -   P.D. Orton, 1960   -   Order Cortinariales, Family Cortinariaceae

Amanita curtipes   -   E.-J. Gilbertson, 1941   -   Order Agaricales, Family Amanitaceae

Trametes ljubarskyi   -   Pilát, 1936   -   Order Polyporales, Family Polyporaceae

Something more about "MUSHROOMS" (source Wikipedia)

MUSHROOM vs. TOADSTOOL. The terms "mushrooms" and "toadstool" go back centuries and were never precisely defined, nor was there consensus on application.

The term "toadstool" was often, but not exclusively, applied to poisonous mushrooms or to those that have the classic umbrella-like cap-and-stem form. Between 1400 and 1600 A.D., the term tadstoles, frogstooles, frogge stoles, tadstooles, tode stoles, toodys hatte, paddockstool, puddockstool, paddocstol, toadstoole and paddockstooles sometimes were used synonymously with mushrom, mushrum, muscheron, mousheroms, mussheron, or musserouns.

The term "mushroom" and its variations have been derived from the French word mousseron in reference to moss (mousse). There may have been a direct connection to toads (in reference to poisonous properties) for toadstools. However, there is no clear-cut delineation between edible and poisonous fungi, so that "mushroom" may be edible, poisonous, or unpalatable. The term "toadstool" is nowadays used in storytelling when referring to poisonous or suspect mushrooms. The classic example of a toadstool is Amanita muscaria.

   Amanita muscaria

Though generally considered poisonous, Amanita muscaria (English common name "Fly Agaric" or "Fly Amanita") is otherwise famed for its hallucinogenic properties with its main psychoactive constituent being the compound muscimol. Used as an intoxicant by the Koryaks of the Kamchatka Krai of eastern Siberia, the mushroom has had a religious significance in Siberian culture and possibly also in ancient Scandinavian culture. The American banker and amateur ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson proposed the "Fly Agaric" was in fact the Soma talked about in the ancient Rig Veda texts of India; although this theory has been refuted by anthropologists, it gained common credence when first published in 1968

See other related Guides: part 1, 3 and 4.

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