7 sentences with 'mushrooms'
Example sentences and phrases with the word mushrooms and other words derived from it.
• « The consumption of cacti, mushrooms and other hallucinogenic plants by pre-Columbian civilisations was intended to obtain behavioural patterns for their social organisation and also to visualise their gods and receive life lessons from them. »
• « More than 2,500 years ago, the Mayas carved mushrooms out of stone. Although teonanácatl is distributed over large parts of the continent, Guatemala is the only other place where its use has been proven. »
• « Psilocybin and psilocin, the active ingredients of teonanacatl mushrooms, are derived from tryptamine, the same basic compound as seratin, another brain hormone. Derivatives of the alkaloid tryptamine are also the active ingredients of the plants ololiuqui, cebil and virola theidora. »
• « After the rains, I often find mushrooms in the municipal nursery, how do I know if they are edible? »
• « Botanists claim that there is no way or means to be sure whether mushrooms are poisonous or not. »
• « The popular custom is to boil the mushrooms with a silver spoon. If it retains its shine and does not turn black, the mushroom species is harmless. In any case, it is not worth risking death by poisoning. »