Mushrooms · La Saladita, Guerrero

Fly Agaric

Amanita muscaria

Spanish: Hongo matamoscas

Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria)
Photographed by elephantmom on iNaturalist · CC-BY-NC · taken in California, US, not near La Saladita

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 various deciduous and coniferous trees.

TaxonomyAgaricomycetes › Agaricales › Amanitaceae
Local recordsNot recorded by research-grade iNaturalist observations within about 50 km; listed from the site's curated guide
Global records164,560 on iNaturalist

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Cite as: “Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria) at La Saladita”, La Saladita Field Guide, lasaladita.com/species/amanita-muscaria/, updated 2026-09-26. Observation counts and months come from iNaturalist research-grade records within about 50 km of 17.8375°N, 101.7606°W (the survey box also takes in Zihuatanejo, Ixtapa and Troncones); summary text from Wikipedia where present.