Amanita muscaria / Fly Mushroom / False Orange / Fly-poison Amanita / Fly Agaric

About this Item

Name

Scientific Name: Amanita muscaria
Genus: Amanita
Species: muscaria
Common Name: Fly Mushroom; False Orange; Fly-poison Amanita; Fly Agaric

Description

Age: young
Scale: nat. size

Collection Event Data

Collector: Simon Davis
Collection Location: Stow, Mass.
Collection Date: Sept. 21, 1910

Notes

Notes: Specimen not kept. Young plant with pileus completely unopened. Reproduced in Nat. Geogr. Mag., May, 1920.
Creator: Louis C. C. Krieger
General Information: The content of these records were transcribed from the original handwritten information, and although every attempt was made to do so accurately, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of the transcription or the accuracy of the original information.; Common names were obtained from the following sources:; Miller, Orson K. and David F. Farr. An index of the common fungi of North America, synonymy and common names. Vaduz [Liechtenstein]: J. Cramer, 1975. 206 p.; Lincoff, Gary. The National Audubon Society field guide to North American mushrooms. New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, c1998. 926 p.; Smith, Alexander H. The mushroom hunter's field guide. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, c1980. 316 p.

Technical Details

Collection: University of Michigan Herbarium, Krieger's Watercolors of Fungi
Image Size: 3631 x 5804
File Size: 2 MB
Record: 149
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/f/fuwatic/x-149/w33

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Full citation: "Amanita muscaria; Fly Mushroom; False Orange; Fly-poison Amanita; Fly Agaric." In the digital collection University of Michigan Herbarium, Krieger's Watercolors of Fungi. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/f/fuwatic/x-149/w33. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 27, 2025.