| Autumn northern forest. mushroom orange red fly agaric.Fly agaric and moss. Fly agaric mushroom Fly agaric mushroom in the wild, close up. Fly Agaric toadstool, a large opened toadstool and beside it a small domed plant just emerging showing the characteristic red and white spots. Poison amanita mushroom on moss close up. Fly agaric toadstool in moss and forest grass. Red Fly agaric Latin Amanita muscaria is a poisonous psychoactive mushroom of the genus Fly Agaric, or Amanita Latin Amanita of the order Agaricales Latin Agaricales, belongs to basidiomycetes. In many European languages, the name `fly agaric` came from an old way of using it ââ¬â as a remedy against flies, the Latin species epithet also comes from the word `fly` Latin musca. In Slavic languages, the word `fly agaric` became the name of the genus Amanita. The red fly agaric grows in coniferous, deciduous and mixed forests, especially in birch forests. It occurs frequently and abundantly singly and in large groups from June to autumn frosts. 
 
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