🇺🇸 Fly Agaric - 🇩🇪 Fliegenpilz - 🇪🇪 Punane kärbseseen - 🇷🇺 Мухомор красный 9/22/07—9/21/26
🆔 Amanita muscaria (L.) Lam.
ℹ️ Hymenium: Gills white to creamy-white, crowded, with numerous shorter lamellulae
ℹ️ Cap: Hemispherical to convex when young, later broadly convex to flat; bright scarlet-red to orange-red, sometimes fading with age; covered with loose white to yellowish universal-veil warts that may wash away; margin increasingly striate at maturity
ℹ️ Hymenium Attachment: Free
ℹ️ Stipe: White, cylindrical to clavate, tapering upward; basal bulb surrounded by concentric rings or scales of volval remnants; large membranous, pendulous white ring, sometimes with a yellowish margin
⚪ Spore print white
🌲🌳 Mycorrhizal with hardwoods and conifers, especially birch, pine and spruce; alone, scattered or gregariously; coniferous, deciduous and mixed forests, parks and woodland edges; often sandy or peaty soils; summer to autumn
😵💫😵 Poisonous and psychoactive; causes variable neurological intoxication and gastrointestinal symptoms
🏥 Used as microdosing nootrop and as folk medicine
⚕️ Ibotenic acid, muscimol, muscarine
📏 Fruit body large; stipe ~8–25 cm long and ~1–2.5 cm thick
📐 Cap ∅ ~6–20 cm
🔪 White, with yellow to orange-yellow tissue immediately beneath the cap skin; unchanging when cut or bruised
🧪 No distinctive macroscopic KOH reaction
👃 Mild, indistinct, mushroomy
👅 Mild, indistinct
🔬 Spores broadly ellipsoid to subglobose, smooth, hyaline, inamyloid, ~8–10.5 × 6–8 µm; basidia predominantly 4-spored; gill trama bilateral; basal clamps absent at basidia
🔤 Iconic red woodland Amanita with white veil warts, pendulous ring and concentric volval rings around a bulbous base
🇺🇸 Fly Agaric - 🇩🇪 Fliegenpilz - 🇪🇪 Punane kärbseseen - 🇷🇺 Мухомор красный