The mushroom fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) contains hallucinatory poisons and can cause death if eaten.

Some of the changes in size and time perception described in Alice in Wonderland are characteristic effects of the mushroom intoxication.

There is some speculation that Lewis Carroll drew inspiration from either consumption of the mushroom or from the then popular book A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi by M.C. Cook.

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