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Fly agaric

Amanita muscaria

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Description:

Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric (play /ˈæɡərɪk/) or fly Amanita (play /ˌæməˈnaɪtə/), is a poisonous and psychoactive basidiomycete fungus, one of many in the genus Amanita. Native throughout the temperate and boreal regions of the Northern Hemisphere, Amanita muscaria has been unintentionally introduced to many countries in the Southern Hemisphere, generally as a symbiont with pine plantations, and is now a true cosmopolitan species.

Habitat:

A huge nature-park in Münster, Germany.. They were growing beneath a path leading to a game lodge..

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