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If It Is Badly Cooked, This Fungus without Known Psychedelic Makes See the Same Lutins to Those Who Eat It

The bolet Lanmaoa asiatica, a sought after dish from Yunnan's tables in southwestern China, plunges those who cook it too little into strange hallucinations, a phenomenon detailed in mid-July 2026 by a chronicle of the Guardian. These visions, called lilliputiennes in reference to Gulliver's dwarfs, intrigue all the more since the fungus does not contain any known psychedelic molecule. The hallucinogenic fungus owes its effect to an yet unknown …
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The bolet Lanmaoa asiatica, a sought after dish from Yunnan's tables in southwestern China, plunges those who cook it too little into strange hallucinations, a phenomenon detailed in mid-July 2026 by a chronicle of the Guardian. These visions, called lilliputiennes in reference to Gulliver's dwarfs, intrigue all the more since the fungus does not contain any known psychedelic molecule. The hallucinogenic fungus owes its effect to an yet unknown …

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Science-et-vie.com broke the news on Tuesday, July 21, 2026.
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