wiki-illiam #107: q6

[dubdobdee]

What :

i: is a deadly oxymoron?
Probably DESTROYING ANGEL (amanita virosa) (AMME and his mum)

ii: has insecticide properties?
FLY AGARIC (amanita muscaria) (AT)

iii: could be a cheap form of confectionery?
PENNY BUN (boletus edulis) (DDD, looked up slightly inadvertently here)

iv: grotesque body has achieved a girth of 64 inches?
GIANT PUFFBALL (calvatia gigantea) (PJ, found in Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms of the World, by Hall et al.)

v: two names, applied to a firelighter suggest muscle relaxation and recall kitchen negligence?
CANDLE SNUFF FUNGUS (xylaria hypoxylon), viz firelighter plus "muscle relaxant" = a mix-op in the kitchen (DDD, looked up here)

vi: better known as one of Rainier's features, is the most common source of what favourite hallucinogen?
LIBERTY CAP (psilocybe semilanceata) (AMME and his mum)

vii: sinister form of headgear probably accounted for a Holy Roman Emperor?
DEATH CAP (amanita phalloides) (AT)

viii: parasite is nominally associated with Iscariot?
JUDAS' EAR or JEW'S EAR or JELLY EAR (auricularia auricula-judae) (AT/MM)

ix: precious stone is deceitful?
AMETHYST DECEIVER (laccaria amethystea) (DDD, looked up here)

x: is also a lamellibranch?
OYSTER MUSHROOM (pleurotus ostreatus): lammelibranch means bivalve, ie a type of mollusc (AT)

Comments

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Re: V, there's a tinder mushroom I think? That doesn't make sense with the muscle relaxation or kitchen negligence, though.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i actually know (v) and (ix) from cheating via my linked list, though won't spill till shroom-nerds have had a chance of a better stab: only iv is now fully unsolved (its clue not name-related, i don't think)

[petra jane (from livejournal.com)]

I think the biggest white truffle was more in the magnitude of 5 inches wide, not 64...suspect it's some sort of fairy-ring, rather than an individual cap or tuber.

[petra jane (from livejournal.com)]

It says here in Hall et al's Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms of the World that the Giant Puffball (Calvatia gigantea) has been known to grow to more than 1.5m wide, and the biggest one anyone found weighed 100kg. It also says that they're edible, though probably quite yuck by the point they get that big.