17/Sep/2026, 1:40 PM
Kolga, Harju county, Eesti
Mixed forest, uprooted tree exposed root ball mossy sand
59°29'15.0"N 25°39'06.6"E
🌡️ 15°C ⛅ Scattered clouds 💨 Wind 230° SW->NE, 19 km/h
Original Instagram postAmanita muscaria
Fly Amanita
- Scientific identification
- Amanita muscaria (L.) Lam.
- Family
- Amanitaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Amanita
Names across languages
- English: Fly Amanita
- German: Roter Fliegenpilz
- Finnish: Punakärpässieni
- Estonian: Punane kärbseseen
- Russian: Мухомор красный
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2026-09-17.
Hymenium
Gills white to creamy-white, crowded, with numerous shorter lamellulae
Cap
Hemispherical to convex when young, later broadly convex to flat; bright scarlet-red; covered with loose white universal-veil warts that may wash away; margin increasingly striate at maturity
Hymenium Attachment
Free
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
Spore print white
Ecology
Mycorrhizal with hardwoods and conifers (birch, pine and spruce); alone, scattered or gregariously; sandy or peaty soils; summer to autumn
Edibility
Poisonous and psychoactive
Uses & compounds
Used as microdosing nootrop and as folk medicine
Uses & compounds
Ibotenic acid, muscimol, muscarine
Fruit body
Fruit body large; stipe ~8–25 cm long and ~1–2.5 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap ∅ ~6–20 cm
Flesh
White, with yellow to orange-yellow tissue immediately beneath the cap skin; unchanging when cut or bruised
Chemical reactions
No distinctive macroscopic KOH reaction
Odour
Mushroomy
Taste
Mild
Microscopy
Spores broadly ellipsoid to subglobose, smooth, hyaline, inamyloid, ~8–10.5 × 6–8 µm; basidia predominantly 4-spored
Overview
Iconic red woodland Amanita with white veil warts, pendulous ring and concentric volval rings around a bulbous base
1783). Encycl. Méth. Bot. (Paris) 1(1): 111.
Field encounters
10/Sep/23, 2:32 PM
Raudoja, Harju County
Mixed forest (birch, pine, spruce) with ferns, wood sorrel, bilberry
59°22'38.5"N 25°29'16.3"E
🔆 Sunny still weather
Original Instagram postSource hashtags
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