Scarlet Flycap (Amanita muscaria)
Kingdom:Fungi
Phylum:Basidiomycota Class:Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family:Amanitaceae
Genus:Amanita
Species:A. muscaria
Binomial name: Amanita muscaria
Common name: Scarlet flycap, Fly agaric ,Fly Amanita
Amanita muscaria, is a poisonous and psychoactive basidiomycete fungus, one of many in the genus Amanita. 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 plantations, and is now a true cosmopolitan species. It associates with various deciduous and coniferous trees. The quintessential toadstool, it is a large white-gilled, white-spotted, usually deep red mushroom, one of the most recognizable and widely encountered in popular culture.
It first appears as a white cap
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