Amanita Muscaria Liquid Culture Original price was: $24.99.$19.99Current price is: $19.99.
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Amanita Muscaria Liquid Culture
Original price was: $24.99.$19.99Current price is: $19.99.
Looking for the best Amanita Muscaria Liquid Culture around? Our Liquid Culture is carefully monitored until the solution is 90% colonized, then pulled to keep it fresh in the syringe until it gets to you!
| Species | Amanita Muscaria |
| Difficulty ℹ️ | 🍄🍄🍄🍄 |
| Spore Coloration | White |
| Ecology | Mycorrhizal |
| Edibility | Poisonous / Psychoactive |
Arguably the most iconic toadstool species, the fly agaric, is a large white-gilled, white-spotted, usually red mushroom, and is one of the most recognizable and widely encountered in popular culture. This includes video game design, such as the extensive use of a recognizable Amanita muscaria in the Mario franchise and its Super Mushroom power up.
Native throughout the temperate and boreal regions of the Northern Hemisphere, Amanita muscaria has been unintentionally introduced to many countries in the Southern Hemisphere, generally as a symbiont with pine and birch plantations, and is now a true cosmopolitan species. It associates with various deciduous and coniferous trees.
The name of the mushroom in many European languages is thought to derive from its use as an insecticide when sprinkled in milk. This practice has been recorded from Germanic- and Slavic-speaking parts of Europe, as well as the Vosges region and pockets elsewhere in France, and Romania. Albertus Magnus was the first to record it in his work De vegetabilibus some time before 1256, commenting “it is called the fly mushroom because it is powdered in milk to kill flies.”
Despite its easily distinguishable features, Amanita muscaria is a fungus with several known variations, or subspecies. These subspecies are slightly different, some having yellow or white caps, but they are all usually called fly agarics, and they are most of the time recognizable by their notable white spots. Recent DNA fungi research, however, has shown that some of these variations are not the same species at all, such as the peach-colored fly agaric (Amanita persicina) for example, but the name ‘fly agaric’ is still commonly used. Although poisonous, death due to poisoning from A. muscaria fruiting bodies ingestion is quite rare. Parboiling twice with water draining weakens its toxicity and breaks down the mushroom’s psychoactive substances; it is eaten in parts of Europe, Asia, and North America. All Amanita muscaria varieties, but in particular A. muscaria var. muscaria, are noted for their hallucinogenic properties, with the main psychoactive constituents being muscimol and its neurotoxic precursor ibotenic acid. A local variety of the mushroom was used as an intoxicant and entheogen by the indigenous peoples of Siberia.
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What makes Southwest Shroomery’s Amanita Muscaria Culture unique?
Quite simply, you won’t find another verified, regularly refreshed culture on the market. Other vendors will often purchase and resell our culture, however, liquid cultures reach senescence over generations, and will eventually stop growing altogether.
Additionally, most vendors will ship live cultures without any air in the syringes. We draw at least 1ml of air inside the syringe on top of your 10ml of solution. This allows your culture to stay viable in its syringe for significantly longer than others!
Amanita muscaria fruit prolifically in the mountains in New Mexico during monsoons, and we’ve acquired tons of spore prints over years of hiking and refresh this culture from new genetics every 3 months.
Other names for this fungi include: Royal Fly Agaric, Fly Amanita.
Some photos of this product in its wild-foraged form are sourced from iNaturalist or Wikipedia, taken by Eric Steinert, František ŠARŽÍK, Tomasz Przechlewski, Fluff Berger. Licensed by CC-BY-SA.
Frequently Asked Questions
Mushroom Liquid Culture is a nutrient solution with live mycelial bodies suspended in it. It comes in a filled 10cc syringe with a needle, and is entirely sterile!
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It sure is! Mushroom spores are the microscopic “seeds” of mushrooms.
Liquid culture is when those seeds have “taken root”, so to speak! Mushroom spores are very sturdy, and well suited to storage and transport.
Liquid culture offers you a way to add rocket fuel to your gourmet grows, and get to your desired fruiting bodies much faster!
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Keep your liquid culture ideally in the fridge for up to a year. You can also keep it in a cool dark place for 3~6 months.
Get yourself some substrate, an agar plate, or whatever medium you choose, attach the needle provided in your kit, and inject a small amount into your chosen medium!
If you any questions as to the density, sterility or other concerns about your order please reach out as soon as possible through our Help Center.
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Each kit comes with 10cc of sterile, live mycelium in nutrient solution and a single 18Ga needle for use.
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