Additionally, some modern ethnomycologists, such as Danny Staples, identify ambrosia with the untameable hallucinogenic mushroom Amanita muscaria: " it was the food of the gods, their ambrosia, and nectar was the pressed sap of its juices ", Staples asserts.

The mushroom Amanita muscaria, commonly known as " fly agaric "

Amanita muscaria, the most easily recognised " toadstool ", is frequently depicted in fairy stories and on greeting cards.

The classic example of a toadstool is Amanita muscaria.

* Amanita muscaria – ibotenic acid and muscimol

** ibotenic acid ( found in Amanita muscaria (" Fly Agaric "); prodrug to muscimol )

** muscimol ( also found in Amanita muscaria, a GABAergic )

The common muscimol-bearing mushroom Amanita muscaria, also known as the " Fly Agaric "

A short video on the use of Amanita muscaria mushrooms by the Sami people and their reindeer produced by the BBC.

Other entheogenic fungi, such as Amanita muscaria, have also been suggested.

A short video on the use of Amanita muscaria mushrooms by the Sami people and their reindeer produced by the BBC.

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Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric () or fly amanita (), 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.

Amanita muscaria is noted for its hallucinogenic properties, with its main psychoactive constituent being the compound muscimol.

Amanita muscaria var.

* Fly agaric, Amanita muscaria, potential correlation with Christmas tradition

Candidates that have been suggested include honey, and fly agaric ( Amanita muscaria ), which was widely used among Siberian shamans for its entheogenic properties.

A number of proposals were made, including one in 1968 by the American banker R. Gordon Wasson, an amateur ethnomycologist, who asserted that soma was an inebriant, and suggested fly-agaric mushroom, Amanita muscaria, as the likely candidate.

" McKenna cites both Wasson's and his own unsuccessful attempts using Amanita muscaria to reach a psychedelic state as evidence that it could not have inspired the worship and praise of Soma.

Teeter records success with his use of Amanita muscaria and his experiments to duplicate the described occurrences surrounding the production, use and effects described for Soma and the Grail.

In addition to his writings on anarchism and Temporary Autonomous Zones, Bey has written essays on such diverse topics as Tong traditions, the utopian Charles Fourier, the fascist Gabriele D ' Annunzio, alleged connections between Sufism and ancient Celtic culture, technology and Luddism, Amanita muscaria use in ancient Ireland, and sacred pederasty in the Sufi tradition.

Some scholars believe certain examples of berserker rage to have been induced voluntarily by the consumption of drugs such as the hallucinogenic mushroom Amanita muscaria.

Amanita muscaria, a conditionally edible species

The ring may be skirt-like as in some species of Amanita, collar-like as in many species of Lepiota, or merely the faint remnants of a cortina ( a partial veil composed of filaments resembling a spiderweb ), which is typical of the genus Cortinarius.

Amanita phalloides (), commonly known as the death cap, is a deadly poisonous basidiomycete fungus, one of many in the genus Amanita.

A. phalloides is the type species of Amanita section Phalloideae, a group that contains all of the deadly poisonous Amanita species thus far identified.

The spore print is white, a common feature of Amanita.

as the type species, has been officially conserved against the older Amanita Boehm ( 1760 ), which is considered a synonym of Agaricus L.

Although a few species of Amanita are edible, many fungi experts advise against eating a member of Amanita unless the species is known with absolute certainty.

The Mario ( series )# Recurring gameplay elements | Super Mushroom is an idealized representation of the Amanita muscaria fungus.

Much more care, education, and experience is typically required to make a positive identification of many species, however, and as such, few collect from more dangerous groups, such as Amanita, which include some of the most toxic mushrooms in existence.

Amanita phalloides and Amanita virosa, those confident in their skills often pick the Amanita rubescens, which is highly prized in Europe and to a much lesser extent in Russia, accounted by some not to superior taste, but to its relation to the Amanita caesarea, which is not found in Russia, but was considered a delicacy worthy of the emperor in Ancient Rome.

Young puffballs in the edible stage, before maturation of the gleba, have undifferentiated white flesh within ; whereas the gills of immature Amanita mushrooms can be seen if they are closely examined.

Deadly poisonous mushrooms that are frequently confused with edible mushrooms and responsible for many fatal poisonings include several species of the Amanita genus, in particular, Amanita phalloides, the death cap.

The genus Amanita contains about 600 species of agarics including some of the most toxic known mushrooms found worldwide, as well as some well regarded edible species.

Nonetheless, in some cultures, the larger local edible species of Amanita are mainstays of the markets in the local growing season.

Amanita caesarea | A. caesarea ( edible )

Considered a choice edible, particularly in France, Germany and Italy, it was widely written about by the Roman writers Pliny the Elder and Martial, although ranked below the esteemed Amanita caesarea.

Unfortunately, it is easy to mistake the death cap mushroom ( Amanita phalloides ), as well as some other Amanita species, for this edible species due to similarities in appearance.

Some choice edible species ( chanterelles, Amanita caesarea, Laetiporus sulphureus, etc.

Amanita spp, immature ( possibly poisonous ) Amanita mushrooms. Coprinus comatus, immature ( edible ) shaggy mane mushrooms.

Immature fruiting bodies of two different mushrooms encased in a universal veil-deadly poisonous Amanita phalloides ( left ) and edible Amanita caesarea ( right )

Furthermore, phalloidin is also found in the edible ( and sought-after ) Blusher ( Amanita rubescens ).

Amanita fulva is one of the few edible species in the genus Amanita.

Though this particular species is considered edible, it must be identified with care as other members of the genus Amanita are poisonous and some are deadly.

Amanita caesarea, commonly known in English as Caesar's Mushroom, is a highly regarded edible mushroom in the genus Amanita, native to southern Europe and North Africa.

Amanita novinupta is highly regarded as a choice edible in the region in which it is found.