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Amanita muscaria, also known as Fly agaric | ||||||||
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Agarics (also known as " gilled mushrooms") are one of the most familiar types of mushrooms. The order Agaricales has about 4.000 species (25% of the described homobasidiomycetes). They range from the deadly Destroying angel to the familiar white mushroom, from the hallucinogenic Fly agaric to the bioluminescent Jack-O-Lantern mushroom, they are ubiquitous to near every place in the world except Antarctica.
Note that many mushrooms, such as chanterelles, have false gills, and are not Agarics.
Mushroom types