Boost Variant: how to get currently held type?

As I understood all types of boost.variant are parsed into real types (meaning as if boost variant<int, string> a; a="bla-bla" would after compilation turn into string a; a="bla-bla") And so I wonder: how to get what type was put into boost variant?

What have I tried:

#include <boost/variant.hpp>
#include <boost/function.hpp>
#include <boost/shared_ptr.hpp>
#include <iostream>

int main()
{
    typedef boost::function<double (double x)> func0;
    typedef boost::function<double (double x, double y)> func1;
    typedef boost::variant<int, func0, func1> variant_func;
    func1 fn = std::plus<double>();
    variant_func v(fn);
    std::cout << boost::get<func1>(v)(1.0, 1.0) << std::endl; // this works
    //std::cout << boost::get<v::type>(v)(1.0, 1.0) << std::endl; // this does not compile with many errors
    // std::cout << (v)(1.0, 1.0) << std::endl; // this fails with Error    1   error C2064: term does not evaluate to a function taking 2 arguments

    std::cin.get();
    return 0;
}