№ 001
Dried Caps
Whole wild caps · air-dried 36 h · vacuum-sealed
SPECIMEN № 001, COAST MOUNTAINS, BRITISH COLUMBIA
Turn the world
down.
Wild Amanita muscaria, gathered one dawn at a time in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia - dried low, slow and vacuum-sealed. A botanical specimen for collection and study.
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THE COLLECTION - DRAG THE WEIGHT, WATCH IT POUR
The noise-cancelling
mushroom.*
*Not audio equipment - a specimen that simply refuses to shout.
Any weight from 20 to 500 g · botanical specimen · not for consumption.
№ 001
№ 002
Ground Powder
Stone-milled dried caps · single batch · sealed fresh
FILM STILL · 06:20
FEATURED SPECIMEN
№ 001,
Dried Caps
Amanita muscaria var. muscaria - wild-foraged, Coast Mountains, British Columbia. Picked at dawn, one basket at a time.
Open specimen № 001
Vacuum-sealed · ships flat & quiet
PROVENANCE - ECHO OF THE FILM
From forest to You,
seven honest steps.
01Surfaced
A white veil breaks the moss before sunrise - the egg stage of wild Amanita muscaria in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia. We walk the same stands every dawn of the short autumn flush; here is how we tell the fly agaric apart.
02Picked
Each cap is taken by hand at the base - one from a colony, never more. The mycelium and the veiled eggs stay untouched, so the same stand fruits again next season. Single origin means exactly that: one dawn, one forest.
03Cleaned
Spruce needles and moss come off with a soft dry brush; the caps are never washed. Water dulls the brick-red and invites rot - a dried specimen stays honest only if it stays dry from the first minute.
04Dried, 36 h
Thirty-six hours at 40 °C in moving air, finishing with a brief rise to 90 °C so residual ibotenic acid converts to muscimol. The caps come out paper-light, colour held.
05Sealed
Vacuum-sealed the same week. Airtight and dark is how dried fly agaric caps keep their structure and colour for years.
06Cured - in the dark
Weeks in a cool dark room finish what the dryer began: the specimen settles, the aroma quiets, the red deepens to its archive shade.
07Into your hands
The pouch leaves us flat, quiet and tracked, and arrives exactly as it left the dark room - one dawn in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, folded into a sealed specimen of wild Amanita muscaria (fly agaric), now yours to keep on the shelf.
FIELD JOURNAL
Old stories,
red caps.
From Mario to the Mushroom Emoji 🍄, how the fly agaric conquered pop culture
A power-up, a Smurf village, a keyboard glyph on two billion phones: why the one mushroom everyone can draw is Amanita muscaria, and nobody notices.
Was Santa a Mushroom? The red-and-white theory, weighed
Flying reindeer, a red-and-white visitor, gifts through the smoke-hole: the famous theory that Santa Claus is a folk memory of the fly agaric - and what folklorists actually say.
Baba's Forest - Slavic whispers
Мухомор: the fly-killer at the window, the trickster of the fairy tale, and the red cap that Slavic folk art never stopped painting.
Reindeer & Drum - Siberia's red cap
The steppe's oldest field note: how Koryak and Evenki tradition carried the fly agaric through winter, and why a red-and-white gift-giver still flies with reindeer.
Odin's Wager - the Norse thread
Where the sagas keep their mushrooms, why the berserker theory refuses to die, and what the north actually remembers about red.
Looking to buy wild Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) in Canada? ShroomsBloom ships dried fly agaric caps and stone-milled amanita powder across Canada - single-origin botanical specimens for collection and study, not for consumption. 19+.