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Fly Agaric
Amanita muscaria var.
40.6988, -73.3487
Field Notes
Description:
Fly agaric is a psychoactive species of mushroom found commonly throughout much of the world. The quintessential toadstool, it is a large white-gilled, white-spotted, usually deep red mushroom, one of the most recognizable and widely encountered in popular culture. Several subspecies, with differing cap colour, have been recognised to date, including the brown regalis (considered a separate species), the yellow-orange flavivolvata, guessowii, and formosa, and the pinkish persicina. Genetic studies published in 2006 and 2008 show several sharply delineated clades which may represent separate species. Fully grown, the bright red cap is usually around3–8 in in diameter, although larger specimens have been found. The name of the mushroom in many European languages is thought to have been derived from the fact that it was used as an insecticide, when sprinkled in milk.
Habitat:
a cosmopolitan mushroom, native to conifer and deciduous woodlands throughout the temperate and boreal regions of the Northern Hemisphere, including high elevations of warmer latitudes in regions like the Hindu Kush, the Mediterranean and Central America.
Notes:
This was yellow instead of the usual Red
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