Variety
Amanita muscaria guessowii (American yellow fly agaric)
Amanita muscaria guessowii. Photo: (c) Erlon Bailey, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
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)
- Variety: Amanita muscaria guessowii (American yellow fly agaric)
- Species: Amanita muscaria (Fly agaric)
- Subsection: Amanita (Amanita subsect. amanita)
- Section: Amanita (Amanita sect. amanita)
- Subgenus: Amanita (Amanita subg. amanita)
- Genus: Amanita (Amanita mushrooms)
- Tribe: Amaniteae
- Family: Amanitaceae (Amanita mushrooms and allies)
- Suborder: Pluteineae
- Order: Agaricales (Common gilled mushrooms and allies)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae
- Class: Agaricomycetes
- Subphylum: Agaricomycotina (Higher basidiomycetes)
- Phylum: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycete fungi)
- Kingdom: Fungi (Fungi including lichens)

