You may have seen fly agaric in stories, movies, or forests. Its red cap with white spots makes it easy to notice. Many people see it as a magic mushroom. Stories and traditions have kept it famous ...

But it wasn’t psilocybin, the psychedelic drug in so-called “magic” mushrooms, but instead the world’s most charismatic fungi, the red and white fly agaric mushroom, known to scientists as ...

The Amanita muscaria is the red mushroom with the white spots that ... of mushroom poisoning fatalities in the UK. The death cap mushroom (Amanita phalloides) On average one-third of the calls ...