🍄 Meet the real-life Mario mushroom: Amanita muscaria! As one of the most iconic mushrooms around, you may recognize it from Alice in Wonderland or the Mario super mushroom power up! Fly Agaric’s fruiting body emerges from the soil covered in a white veil of pointy warts. The red pellicle emerges as the cap grows and flattens with maturity to about 20cm wide. They have white gills and white spores. These beauties are poisonous and psychoactive ⚠️ . I was absolutely delighted to come across thes

Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) it’s the only emoji on your phone and most famous mushroom in the world recognised globally! it helps trees by transferring nutrients into their roots, but if eaten can cause hallucinations and psychotic reactions. I found this beauty wondering around the woods with @allthingsfungi and @lajatattoo For over 4,000 years it was the ingredient in a sacred and hallucinogenic ritual drink called ‘soma’ in India and Iran! It took 9222 shots over 4 days to hatch this amazin

The Truth About Santa and Amanita muscaria

Amanita muscaria matures from a small egg structure covered by a universal veil. Even after being picked, the mushroom continues to grow as long as it gets moisture. Here I am growing this in my Mella Mushroom Chamber (~80% humidity) and sprayed with water. This mushroom contains ibotenic acid that is mildly toxic (🤢🤮💩) and Muscimol (😵‍💫😴). You can double boil this mushroom to make it edible - but be very careful eating Amanitas as there are several deadly species. This time lapse took ~5

An ode to Amanita muscaria under Oak trees here in Napa. This is the Fly Agaric or Mario mushroom, a charismatic and easily recognized species that grows worldwide. They are toxic in that they contain ibotenic acid ad Muscimol, which can make you 🥴🤢🤮💩😵‍💫😴 if consumed. You can convert the ibotenic acid into Muscimol via heat, UV, and low pH if you want to explore using it as an entheogen (dissociative sedative). You can also boil with 2x changes of water to turn these into a safe edible mu