Species

Amanita muscaria (Fly agaric)

Amanita muscaria. Photo: (c) Jack Johnson, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita, is a basidiomycete mushroom, one of many in the genus Amanita. It is also a muscimol mushroom. 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 and birch plantations, and is now a true cosmopolitan species. It associates with various deciduous and coniferous trees.

Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Fungi (Fungi including lichens)
  - Phylum: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycete fungi)
    - Subphylum: Agaricomycotina (Higher basidiomycetes)
      - Class: Agaricomycetes
        Subclass: Agaricomycetidae
        Order: Agaricales (Common gilled mushrooms and allies)
        Suborder: Pluteineae
        Family: Amanitaceae (Amanita mushrooms and allies)
        Tribe: Amaniteae
        Genus: Amanita (Amanita mushrooms)
        Subgenus: Amanita (Amanita subg. amanita)
        Section: Amanita (Amanita sect. amanita)
        Subsection: Amanita (Amanita subsect. amanita)
        Species: Amanita muscaria (Fly agaric)
        Subspecies: Amanita muscaria flavivolvata (American fly agaric)
        Variety: Amanita muscaria guessowii (American yellow fly agaric)
        Variety: Amanita muscaria formosa (Yellow-orange fly agaric)

Subtaxa

Subspecies: Amanita muscaria flavivolvata (American fly agaric)

Variety: Amanita muscaria guessowii (American yellow fly agaric)

Variety: Amanita muscaria formosa (Yellow-orange fly agaric)

Sightings

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