Amanita muscaria

Amanita muscaria, also known as flyswatter or false oronja, among other names, is a very common and popular basidiomycete fungus, considered poisonous and entheogenic, with cosmopolitan distribution of the Agaricales order. The specific epithet muscaria comes from the Latin musca, fly, and refers to the interaction that occurs between this fungus and insects. In western Siberia, the use of A. muscaria was restricted to shamans, who used it as an alternative method of achieving a trance state.5 In addition to the name false capsicum (it can be confused with capsicum when the hat is orange due to age), other names it can receive