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 "

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 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.

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.

In 1941, Wieland isolated the toxin alpha-amanitin, the principal active agent of one of the world's most poisonous mushrooms Amanita phalloides.

*" Boletes are generally safe to eat " – It is true that unlike a number of Amanita species in particular, in most parts of the world, there are no known deadly varieties of the Boletus genus, which reduces the risks associated with misidentification.

Three of the most lethal mushrooms belong to the genus Amanita: the death cap ( A. phalloides ) and destroying angels ( A. virosa, and A. bisporigera ); the fool's mushroom ( A. verna ) and two are from the genus Cortinarius: the deadly webcap ( C. rubellus ), and the fool's webcap ( C. orellanus ).

Critics say that most of the plants were a red herring designed to distract authorities from the real business of selling research chemicals, although this is debatable as the company began selling only one product, Amanita Muscaria mushrooms.

They are especially suitable for novice mushroom hunters, since there is little danger of confusing them with deadly mushrooms, like various Amanita agarics, which are the most poisonous mushrooms in the world.

In the Netherlands, which is home to most of the smart shops in Europe, this includes Salvia divinorum, Amanita muscaria, Peyote, San Pedro cactus, Tabernanthe iboga, and various ingredients for Ayahuasca preparations.

The Apples of Apollo: Pagan and Christian Mysteries of the Eucharist explores the role that entheogens in general, and Amanita muscaria in particular, played in Greek and biblical mythology and later on in Renaissance painting, most notably in the Isenheim Altarpiece by Matthias Grünewald.

Since the gills of young Volvariella are white at first, they are more easily mistaken for Amanita.

It is considered slightly poisonous and, more importantly, can easily be confused with much more poisonous species such as the Panther cap ( Amanita pantherina ).

Volvariella and Amanita cannot be distinguished in the early " button stage ", that, for many, is considered the best stage to collect Volvariella for consumption.

The author of " Mushrooms Demystified ", David Arora cautions puffball-hunters to beware of Amanita " eggs ", which are Amanitas still entirely encased in their universal veil.

For instance, Scandinavian mythology says Berserkers could drink a mixture called " butotens ", perhaps prepared from the Amanita muscaria mushroom, to increase their physical power a dozen times at the risk of insanity.

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.

* Amanita muscaria is edible if parboiled to leach out toxins.

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.

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.