🐾 Fly Agaric

Amanita muscaria · wildlife atlas entry

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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. Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

Fly Agaric — reference photo from iNaturalist — (c) Federico Calledda, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Federico Calledda · cc-by-nc

Record card

Scientific name	Amanita muscaria
Rank	species
Community observations	174,401 research-grade records on iNaturalist

Classification

kingdom Fungi › phylum Basidiomycota › class Agaricomycetes › order Agaricales › family Amanitaceae

Seen in the wild — community photographs

Fly Agaric photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · Ammerland, DE-NI, DE
(c) Matthias Thomssen, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Fly Agaric photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · Adendorf, Von-Stauffenberg-Straße, 21365 Adendorf, Deutschland
(c) Adrian Kreft, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Fly Agaric photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · Tamworth, England, GB
(c) nickshroom, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Fly Agaric photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · Disseminat Gausac, Vielha e Mijaran, Lleida, ES
(c) mireiafarre, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Fly Agaric photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · Pannonhalm, HU-GS, HU
(c) Tánczos Enikő, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Fly Agaric photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · M2XH+WP, Hardtberg, 53123 Bonn, Germany
(c) Mattis, some rights reserved (CC BY) · cc-by

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