Amanita Muscaria It is a clear example that nature creates unreal and extremely beautiful species; This is a very peculiar fungus that, in different cultures, ensure that it looks exactly the same as Santa Claus. This fungus is so popular in the history of humanity, that it has been especially related to Christmas, one of our favorite times of each year, they even consider it a special gift of the December time.
The Amanita Muscaria It is a mushroom of the agarical family and generally develops in broad habitats of the temperate and boreal zones of the northern hemisphere. It also grows in low -rise areas such as in high mountain, in coniferous forests and in beech and bold forests, usually in the last weeks of summer and also in autumn.
Its appearance is usually lovely and very beautiful, since it stands out from all of its species for having a red hat, covered with white points and its stem of this same color. The name of Amanita Muscaria It is because of the paralyzing effect of some insects, it has even been used to scare away flies.
This fungus resembles Santa Claus.Miriam Espacio / Pexels.
Amanita Muscaria and her relationship with Christmas
As we already tell you Amanita Muscaria He carries the red and white colors, which was related to Santa Claus; This began in the Nordic region, in the Sami town of Lapia, where they ate hallucinogenic mushrooms, even used to feed their reindeer with them in the days after the winter solstice. The inhabitants of that region wore red and white to give fungi to the rest of the town and was so much the consumption that came to believe that they flew.
During Christmas celebrations, the presence of pines full of lights and ornaments has become a tradition and this has been another story that has been related to Amanita Muscariasince this fungus grows under the pines of the Siberian plains and in the December time it is associated with gifts of nature, just below the Christmas tree. Over time, the shamans began to cut the mushrooms and hang them in the branches of the pines so that the reindeers did not have access to them and to dry them, eliminating their lethal toxic properties and retaining their hallucinogen effect, however, this action was also associated with the traditional Christmas spheres.