Fly agaric

domain	Eukaryota	The fly agaric, Amanita muscaria, is a mushroom and psychoactive fungus with hallucinogenic properties. Ingestion may cause macropsia and micropsia, which may have been the inspiration for the effect of mushroom consumption in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, although no evidence links Carroll to drug use. While classified as poisonous, human deaths from ingestion are extremely rare. The name of the mushroom is thought to be derived from its use as an insecticide when sprinkled in milk. Fully grown, the bright red cap is 8 - 20 cm (3 - 8 in) in diameter. Native to temperate and boreal regions, it has also been unintentionally released to the Southern hemisphere, and is now cosmopolitan. For more information visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to Other Kingdoms
kingdom	Fungi
phylum	Basidiomycota
class	Agaricomycetes
order	Agaricales
family	Amanitaceae
genus	Amanita
species	A. muscaria

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