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two red and white mushrooms sitting on the grass in front of some bushes with brown leaves

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small red mushrooms growing in the forest

fly agaric #fairytale #mushroom

many red mushrooms growing on the ground near a tree

Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita, is a Amanita of the genus Amanita. It is a large white-gilled, white-spotted, and usually red mushroom. Despite its easily distinguishable features, A. muscaria is a fungus with several known variations, or subspecies. These subspecies are slightly different, some having yellow or white caps, but are all usually called fly agarics, most often recognizable by their notable white spots

two mushrooms are sitting in the grass next to some plants and leaves on the ground

three red mushrooms with white spots on them sitting in the grass next to some leaves

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two red and white mushrooms sitting on the ground

Fly Agaric Mushrooms. The best kind. :)

several red and white mushrooms on the ground

Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria)

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 var (Source: Wikipedia, '', http://en.wikipe