List of Trees Amanita Muscaria Are Associated With

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List of Trees Amanita Muscaria Are Associated With

Post by amanitadreamer » Sat May 23, 2020 4:03 pm

This list was curated at Amanita Muscaria Growth Patterns on Facebook. Mark Neimoller wrote it (I believe he and or he and others curated it) and it is appreciated that if you have new information to add that you let him know.

Here’s a species list of Amanita muscaria hosts:
Abies alba, the European silver fir or silver fir, is native to the mountains of Europe
Abies balsamea, balsam fir, native to most of eastern and central Canada (Newfoundland west to central British Columbia) and the northeastern United States (Minnesota east to Maine, and south in the Appalachian Mountains to West Virginia).
Abies procera, the noble fir, red fir, native to the Cascade Range and Coast Range mountains of extreme northwest California and western Oregon and Washington in the United States.
Betula alleghaniensis, yellow birch, native to North-eastern North America.
Betula lenta, sweet birch, black birch, cherry birch, mahogany birch, or spice birch, native to eastern North America.
Betula nana, the dwarf birch, native to the tundra of the Arctic region.
Betula papyrifera, paper birch, white birch, canoe birch, native to northern North America.
Betula pendula/verrucosa, East Asian white birch, silver birch, or warty birch, native to Europe and parts of Asia.
Betula pubescens (syn. Betula alba), downy birch, moor birch, white birch, European white birch, or hairy birch, native to northern Europe and northern Asia.
Cedrus deodara, Deodar Cedar, in N Virginia
Fagus sylvatica, the European beech, or common beech, native to southern Sweden to northern Sicily, west to France, southern England, northern Portugal, central Spain, and east to northwest Turkey.
Larix decidua, the European larch, is native to the mountains of central Europe
Larix occidentalis, Western larch, native to the mountains of western North America, in Canada in southeastern British Columbia and southwestern Alberta, and in the United States in eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, northern Idaho, and western Montana.
Picea abies, the Norway spruce, is native to Northern, Central and Eastern Europe
Picea glauca, white spruce, native to the northern temperate and boreal forests in North America.
Picea pungens, the blue spruce, green spruce, white spruce, Colorado spruce, or Colorado blue spruce, native to the Rocky Mountains of the United States.
Picea sitchensis, the Sitka spruce
Pinus banksiana, Jack pine, grey pine, scrub pine, native to eastern North America and Canada.
Pinus cembra, the Swiss stone pine or arolla pine, is native to mountain areas in central Europe from the Alps to the Carpathians.
Pinus contorta, the lodgepole pine, shore pine, beach pine, twisted pine, contorta pine, common in western North America
Pinus echinata, the shortleaf pine, native to the eastern United States from southern most New York State, south to northern Florida, west to eastern Oklahoma, and southwest to eastern Texas
Pinus elliottii, slash pine, native to the southeastern United States.
Pinus mugo, the creeping pine, dwarf mountain pine, mugo pine, mountain pine, scrub mountain pine or Swiss mountain pine, native to high elevation habitats from southwestern to Central Europe.
Pinus muricata, bishop pine, native to a very restricted range: mostly in California, including several offshore Channel Islands, and a few locations in Baja California, Mexico. It is always on or near the coast.
Pinus nigra, the Austrian pine or black pine, is a moderately variable species of pine, occurring across southern Mediterranean Europe from Spain to the eastern Mediterranean on Anatolian peninsula of Turkey and on Corsica/Cyprus, including Crimea, and in the high mountains of the Maghreb in North Africa.
Pinus palustris, the longleaf pine, native to the southeastern United States, found along the coastal plain from eastern Texas to southeast Virginia, extending into northern and central Florida.
Pinus patula, patula pine, spreading-leaved pine, or Mexican weeping pine, native to the highlands of Mexico.
Pinus ponderosa, the ponderosa pine, bull pine, blackjack pine, or western yellow-pine, native to the western United States and Canada.
Pinus radiata, the Monterey pine, insignis pine, or radiata pine, native to the Central Coast of California and Mexico.
Pinus resinosa, red pine, Norway pine, native to eastern North America.
Pinus rigida, the pitch pine, native to eastern North America.
Pinus strobus, the eastern white pine, northern white pine, white pine, Weymouth pine (British), and soft pine, native to eastern North America.
Pinus sylvestris, the Scots pine, native to Eurasia, ranging from Western Europe to Eastern Siberia, south to the Caucasus Mountains and Anatolia, and north to well inside the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia.
Pinus taeda, loblolly pine, native to the Southeastern United States.
Pinus virginiana, Virginia pine, scrub pine, Jersey pine, native to Eastern United States on poorer soils from Long Island in southern New York south through the Appalachian Mountains to western Tennessee and Alabama.
Pinus wallichiana
Populus tremuloides, native to cooler areas of North America, [maybe only mycorrhizal with stands in southwestern Montana in Park County, at Butte and Anaconda].
Populus trichocarpa, the black cottonwood, western balsam-poplar, or California poplar, native to western North America.
Pseudotsuga menziesii, Douglas fir, native to western North America.
Tsuga canadensis, eastern hemlock, eastern hemlock-spruce, or Canadian hemlock, and in the French-speaking regions of Canada as pruche du Canada, native to eastern North America.
Tsuga heterophylla, the western hemlock, or western hemlock-spruce, native to the west coast of North America.
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In New Zealand, Amanita muscaria grows under Castanea sativa, Quercus robur, Eucalyptus ficifolia, E. pauciflora, Kunzea and Leptospermum species, and cultivated Nothofagus trees.
A muscaria has also been associated with Cystus/Cistus species.
A. muscaria var. regalis has been found associated with Dryas and Salix species in interior Alaska.
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Re: List of Trees Amanita Are Associated With

Post by Donn » Sun May 24, 2020 12:01 am

At first glance it looks like every common forest tree, with exceptions mostly due to missing data, but I see maples are conspicuously absent.

There certainly are a lot more, though. I've seen it in a group of Arbutus unedo, with nothing else nearby. That's a close relative of madrona, in the Ericaceae, heath family, so if that was for real, it's not unlikely that many more manzanitas etc. would support it.

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Re: List of Trees Amanita Are Associated With

Post by Carbonorodda » Fri Jun 05, 2020 2:02 am

Donn wrote:
Sun May 24, 2020 12:01 am
At first glance it looks like every common forest tree, with exceptions mostly due to missing data, but I see maples are conspicuously absent.
Oaks are also absent, and i think a few amainita sp. (phyllodes comes to mind) associate with oaks.

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Post by amanitadreamer » Fri Jun 05, 2020 3:56 pm

Donn wrote:
Sun May 24, 2020 12:01 am
At first glance it looks like every common forest tree, with exceptions mostly due to missing data, but I see maples are conspicuously absent.

There certainly are a lot more, though. I've seen it in a group of Arbutus unedo, with nothing else nearby. That's a close relative of madrona, in the Ericaceae, heath family, so if that was for real, it's not unlikely that many more manzanitas etc. would support it.
Thanks Don are you referring solely to the Amanita Muscaria? If so, I will amend this info and include it above. In what area did you see this so I can add that information also? I knew the msucarias were opportunists and this really confirms it. Thanks.
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Re: List of Trees Amanita Are Associated With

Post by amanitadreamer » Fri Jun 05, 2020 4:05 pm

Carbonorodda wrote:
Fri Jun 05, 2020 2:02 am
Donn wrote:
Sun May 24, 2020 12:01 am
At first glance it looks like every common forest tree, with exceptions mostly due to missing data, but I see maples are conspicuously absent.
Oaks are also absent, and i think a few amainita sp. (phyllodes comes to mind) associate with oaks.
This list is for Muscaria so I amended the title as I should have been more exact and descriptive. My bad.
I don't know my trees or botany at all really. If you notice other trees that are absent, pls discuss. It is fascinating. I am trying to figure out why they choose what they choose, what might these trees be providing, making, have in their DNA that the muscarias are choosing them. For instance birch are known for medicinal properties in their sap so they produce longer chain polycaccharides to support that work and it seems amanita are tapping into these sugars. Conifers have healing sap often times so it seems sugars with longer chains required for trees, costs a lot energy wise so they also make longer chain sugars to support the creation of these saps AND then amanita muscaria is opportunistically taking advantage of the trees making these longer sugar molecules.
Kind of the way cats show up where there's grain because where there's grain there's rodents. Where you have grain you have cats...Where you have healing trees you have muscaria. Just a working theory. Can you kill my theory?
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Re: List of Trees Amanita Are Associated With

Post by Donn » Sat Jun 06, 2020 2:58 am

Carbonorodda wrote:
Fri Jun 05, 2020 2:02 am
Oaks are also absent, and i think a few amainita sp. (phyllodes comes to mind) associate with oaks.
At first glance, I wondered how I could have missed that - but I didn't. Go to the bottom, where the New Zealand A. muscaria has apparently been branching out and breaking new ground.
amanitadreamer wrote:
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are you referring solely to the Amanita Muscaria?
Yes. I can't be absolutely certain, though, about the connection to Arbutus unedo - those were the only trees in the immediate vicinity, but it's a landscaped margin (in Seattle), not a real stand of A. unedo like you might see in Portugal, and for all I know there could have some tree roots from somewhat far way. i'd be less cautious about it if that weren't such an unlikely relationship - ericaceous plants tend to be highly dependent on soil fungi, but they actually have their own brand of "ericoid mycorrhizal" fungi.
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Post by Cloudykinz » Thu Jul 02, 2020 6:16 pm

Muscarias have also concerned ecologists in Australia where it seems that muscaria in radiata plantations have now formed relationships with native Eucalyptus trees - which is an issue because of its ability to displace native fungi.
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Re: List of Trees Amanita Muscaria Are Associated With

Post by tgt1002 » Fri Jul 24, 2020 9:03 pm

So black bitch is pretty common in my area so that's what I'll keep an eye out for
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Post by Donn » Fri Jul 24, 2020 10:40 pm

Yeah, ... well ... I can't really comment on that.

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Post by tgt1002 » Fri Jul 24, 2020 10:46 pm

birch......I was on my phone auto correct is a bitch :P
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