The Amanita muscaria or fly swatter mushroom is the most recognizable microdosing shrooms and drawn mushroom that we can find in the backcountry. We tell you how to fete it and why it's so well given
At the Casa de las Setas we like mushrooms, all of them, and the one known as cover swatter couldn't be less. But indeed to search for this peculiar mushroom you'll need to have your outfit ready. Your handbasket, pack, cutter, GPS,. You'll find any element that you're going to need in our online store specialized in collecting, growing and tasting mushrooms. What are you staying for to visit it?
Fly agaric. One of the most frequent and at the same time poisonous mushrooms in our mountains
The muscaria is, without a mistrustfulness, one of the most recognizable and studied species of poisonous mushrooms. It'll be because it's one of the most frequent species in our mountains, or because it's the typical dwarf mushroom that we've seen reproduced so numerous times. But without a mistrustfulness it's one of the mushrooms most used by our ancestors for its psychoactive parcels.
We're going to describe the characteristics of this mushroom to be suitable to separate it with certainty
Characteristics of the cover swatter or reig bord mushroom
When we talk about A muscaria we relate to a species that we can find abundantly and by numerous different territories. That's why their popular names are so abundant. We're going to list them because surely you know some of them
Names of the Muscaria or mushroom of the dwarfs
The name of the mushroom of the dwarfs or A muscaria is given by the paralyzing effect it exerts on certain types of insects.
Surely we're facing the queen of popular names. Numerous of them are veritably descriptive of both her characteristic form and her hallucinogenic goods.
In Spanish it's known as mushroom of the canvases or fly swatter, sign of the joint, hongaracha, flycatcher or false oronja for its resemblance with the amanita caesarea
In Basque it's called kuleto faltsua or kuleto palisoa, amoroto or amaroto. In Catalan reig de fageda or reig bord, reig vermell or tinyós. The popular name of this mushroom in English is Fly agaric
What are the characteristics to fete the cover swatter?
We're going to list the characteristics that separate this curious mushroom from other analogous bones