Amanita muscaria is brightly colored fungus that's familiar to everyone from the illustrations found in fairy story books. Amanita muscaria is commonly found in autumn in Birch woods or under Pines. Amanita muscaria are the most eye-catching mushroom with its large caps of scarlet or deep red, mottled with conspicuous white warts. Associated with magic and the fairy kingdom because this other-worldly looking fungus is perhaps the oldest hallucinogenic plant known, having been in recorded use for over six thousand years. Amanita muscaria or as its commonly called Fly agaric mushrooms have been adopted by many cultures, in the northern hemisphere and worldwide to transport the person eating Amanita muscaria to visionary realms. Fly agaric mushrooms are believed to have been employed as a shamanic aid by the Vikings and is known to be used by the tribesmen of Siberia.
Amanita muscaria is also known as Fly Agaric, Fly Death, Toad Stools, Siberian Fly Agaric or Russian Amanita, Washington State Amanita, European Amanita, Soma and many others. Its distribution is from Alaska, Siberia, Scandinavia, Central Europe, North America, Australia, Mexico and the Philippines. Amanita’s sometimes occurs in the form of fairy rings or witches rings, small circles in which, it was assumed the witches or fairies would dance at night. Fly Agaric Mushrooms grows only in symbiosis with birch and/or pine trees, Amanitas are found in artic, temperate, and even tropical climate zones.
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