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Amanita muscaria botanical info and general description.

Amanita muscaria var. muscaria
Botanical Name: Amanita muscaria var. muscaria

Common Names: Fly Agaric; Soma;

Active Constituents: Ibotenic Acid; Muscimol

Botanical description: Amanita muscaria (L:Fr) Hooker - Fly Agaric

Cap: Up to 200mm in diam., fleshy, globose at first, opening to flat, margin even, sometimes with adhering veil fragments usually striate at maturity.  Surface vermilion, scarlet, orange-red to orange-yellow, covered with conspicuous white to yellowish warts.
Stipe: Central, 90-200 x 10-30mm, white to yellowish, mostly cylindrical or widening to a bulbous base. Ring membranous, soft, white or yellowish under the red skin.
Lamellae: Free, crowded, full and intermediate lengths, thin, edges entire, broad, white.
Flesh: Thick and soft, white but yellowish under the red skin, unchanging; odourless but with an increasingly bitter taste with age.
Spore print: White
Spores: Hyaline, subglobose, smooth, thin-walled, non-amyloid; 10-120x 7-10mµm
Habitat: Amanita muscaria is widespread throughout the world. Fruit bodies apear either singularly or in scattered groups under older trees. The striking fruit-bodies with bright red, white warted caps makes the Amanita muscaria the most easily recognized species of mushroom.  Amanita muscaria fruit bodies single or grouped under Pine - Oak - Blue Gum - Spruce.

Amanita muscaria, aka Fly Agaric Historical Shamanic Use:Amanita muscaria cluster.

"There is reason to believe that the Fly Agaric, Amanita muscaria, has been used by humankind longer than any other entheogenic plant, and its use can be traced back linguistically to about 4000-5000BC." [J Ott (Wasson)] Richard Evans Schultes.

One of the greatest practical researchers on hallucinogens, has written that Fly Agaric is "probably the oldest of the hallucinogenic plants and once the most widespread, insofar as man's utilization of it is concerned." [RE Schultes]

Recent theories have claimed Amanita muscaria as one of the most potent forces in Indo-European myth and religion. Up to this century, use of the mushroom had been thought to be confined to the hardy tribes of northern Eurasia. It has now been suggested that Fly Agaric used to grow much more commonly in the world’s temperate regions and was in fact the divine ambriosa of the Mediterranean gods and the soma of Vedic ritual and religion. R. Gordon Wasson was the originator of this theory, and it has since been endorsed by Robert Graves. Many cultures portray Amanita muscaria as the archetypal mushroom, although some Vedic scholars disagree with Wasson’s interpretations, his exhaustive research still stands.

Amanita muscaria, Fly Agaric dried caps.

 

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