Fly agaric or fly amanita
Amanita muscaria
Seriously poisonous — do not eat it.
If someone has eaten it, call emergency services or your poison control centre.
Foraging: Never eat a wild mushroom on a photo or an app’s word. Many deadly species look like edible ones.
The story
For generations, this mushroom has been tied to the household chore of pest control. Its common name, fly agaric, is thought to originate from its historical use as an agent to kill flies, or perhaps from the unusual, fly-like behaviors and effects it was observed to cause.
Sources: Wikidata, en.wikipedia.org
- Family
- Amanitaceae
About
Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita, is a basidiomycete fungus of the genus Amanita. Its name may come from its historical use to kill flies or from the effects it causes. It is a distinctive, large white-gilled mushroom typically featuring a bright red cap covered with white warts. The complex genetic diversity of A. muscaria suggests that it is a species complex. It is a widely distributed mushroom native to temperate and boreal forests of the Northern Hemisphere, now also naturalised in the Southern Hemisphere, forming symbiotic relationships with various trees and spreading invasively in some regions.
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- Name
- Amanita muscaria
- Slug
- amanita-muscaria
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Family
- Amanitaceae
- Genus
- Amanita
- Species
- muscaria
- Wikidata QID
- Q131227
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 4
- Data completeness
- 43
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