The fly amanita is synonymous with toxicity, although it is nowhere near as poisonous as some other members of the Amanita genus and Amanita family (Amanitaceae).<\/p>\n
It grows in autumn, most commonly in coniferous forests, and in the vicinity of birch trees. This is a large, massive mushroom, with distinctive white warts on the cap. However, some individual specimens may be completely wartless, and there is a variety, A. muscaria var. aureola (Kalchbr.), which is wartless by default. The cap is usually red, though it can be orange or reddish-yellowish. The gills are white as is the ringed stipe, at the bottom of which are warty remnants of the volva. The flesh is white, with a mild odor.<\/p>\n
As the name suggests, the fly amanita was used as an insecticide and is commonly known as a muscicide \u2013 a fly killer.<\/p>\n
It contains muscarine and is therefore hallucinogenic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":27151,"template":"","section":[],"class_list":["post-27150","item","type-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n