What did it look like when you opened it? They are so crispy and their aroma is so rich and mushy
How were we to deal with? Easy I received the package 4 days after I made e-transfer
Andrew Leonard · August 2026
SPECIMEN № 001
Amanita muscaria var. muscaria - Whole caps, parted from stems, dried at 40 °C moving air, then vacuum-sealed and cured in the dark.
Reserving holds your pouch from the current small batch. Payment follows by Interac e-Transfer - instructions arrive with your reservation number.
Specimen № 001 is the storybook mushroom itself: whole wild Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) caps, known across Eastern Europe as мухомор, gathered one dawn at a time in the wild forests of British Columbia, Canada, then dried low and slow. Written in Latin letters the same name is muhomor or mukhomor. This species cannot be farmed: it is mycorrhizal, alive only in partnership with forest tree roots, so every cap is wild by nature - picked one by one and carried out in a woven basket, the way the film shows.
Each cap is brushed clean* (never washed), parted from its stem and dried for 36 hours in 40 °C moving air with a brief 90 °C finish. The caps are then vacuum-sealed and cured in a cool dark room until the colour settles into its deep brick-red. Real dried fly agaric caps vary honestly in size, from thumbnail 1–3 g caps to broad 20–30 g ones, so every pouch is a mixed, natural set.
Dried fly agaric for sale usually comes with a photograph, a weight and nothing else. You can buy Amanita muscaria in Canada without ever learning which province it grew in or how hot the dryer ran, and both of those answers are further up this page. What goes in the pouch is whole caps from one forest and one autumn, weighed to the gram anywhere from 30 to 500 g and posted tracked; the same caps stone-milled into powder are sold on their own page. A botanical specimen for collection and study, not food. Not for consumption. 19+.
People ask what it does. There is a great deal written about this mushroom, and we are not the ones who get to summarise it for you. Health Canada does not permit a business selling a botanical specimen to make health, wellness or therapeutic claims. So we make none, in either direction. And the literature would not let us make a simple claim even if we were allowed: the same reviews that discuss possible applications also record poisonings, hospital admissions and a firm warning against self-medication. Anyone who hands you a tidy answer about this mushroom is selling you something. Usually the mushroom.
* No cap comes out of a forest perfectly clean, and a brush only gets so far. Expect the odd spruce needle, a fragment of dry leaf or a little soil in the pouch. We do not wash them: washing would put back the water the dryer spent 36 hours taking out.
Anything sold for people to eat falls under Canada's food and natural health product rules, which is why this is sold as a botanical specimen instead.
| Species | Amanita muscaria var. muscaria (fly agaric) |
|---|---|
| Origin | wild forests of British Columbia, Canada - single origin |
| Current batch | October-November 2025 harvest · rested 3 months · ready now |
| Harvest | hand-picked at dawn, one cap at a time |
| Drying | 36 h at 40 °C moving air · brief 90 °C finish |
| Curing | three-month rest in vacuum-sealed pouches |
| Format | whole caps, mixed sizes · any weight 30–500 g |
| Packaging | vacuum pouch or rigid box |
| Payment | Interac e-Transfer (Canada) |
| Dispatch | same day when payment clears before 6 pm Vancouver time |
| Shipping | Canada Post tracked parcel C$21 or Xpresspost C$32 · free over C$150 · or collect in Burnaby |
| Returns | unopened, undamaged vacuum seal only - within 14 days |
| Status | botanical specimen · not for consumption · 19+ |
No. A fresh cap is toxic: it is loaded with ibotenic acid. Everything we sell is a botanical specimen for collection and study only. Never food, never a supplement. 19+ only.
Yes - tracked shipping to every province and territory, flat and quiet. Eastern Europe knows this mushroom as мухомор, and № 001 is exactly that: wild Canadian Amanita muscaria caps, dried and cured the way the old forest cultures did it, sold strictly as botanical specimens for collection and study.
From the wild forests of British Columbia, Canada - hand-picked one dawn at a time, single origin. Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) is mycorrhizal: it lives only in partnership with the roots of living forest trees, which makes true cultivation impossible. Every cap on earth is wild by nature - ours simply comes from BC.
Yes. Мухомор is the Russian name for Amanita muscaria, and muhomor or mukhomor is that word written in Latin letters; Polish writes muchomor. № 001 is whole dried caps of that species, picked in British Columbia and sold as a botanical specimen for collection and study.
The current batch was gathered in October and November 2025 in the forests of British Columbia, dried, and rested three months in vacuum-sealed pouches. It is ready now. The next harvest runs from late August to early December; after its own three-month rest it will be ready from February of the following year.
Any weight from 30 to 500 g. Drag the scale or type an exact number of grams - the price interpolates between the preset tiers and the server recalculates it on every order.
Set the scale to the grams you want, anywhere from 30 to 500, and add that to the basket. Between two listed tiers the price follows a straight line, so an in-between weight costs exactly its place on that line and nothing extra for being an awkward number. Reserve first, then pay by Interac e-Transfer; the pouch goes out tracked once the transfer clears.
Airtight, dark and dry - the sealed pouch is designed for exactly that. Kept cool and away from light, a dried specimen holds its colour and structure for years.
People ask what it does. There is a great deal written about this mushroom, and we are not the ones who get to summarise it for you. Health Canada does not permit a business selling a botanical specimen to make health, wellness or therapeutic claims. So we make none, in either direction. And the literature would not let us make a simple claim even if we were allowed: the same reviews that discuss possible applications also record poisonings, hospital admissions and a firm warning against self-medication. Anyone who hands you a tidy answer about this mushroom is selling you something. Usually the mushroom. What is not in dispute is the history. Amanita muscaria has been treated as an out-of-the-ordinary mushroom for thousands of years, set apart from every other mushroom by the reindeer herders of Siberia, by Sámi, Norse and Slavic tradition, and written about continuously ever since. That record is public. Read it yourself: the ethnography, then the chemistry, then the arguments, then the rebuttals, and read the criticism beside every claim. Our part stops at the forest floor: gather it properly, dry it properly, cure it properly, and tell you exactly what we did.
A tracked Canada Post parcel is a flat C$21 anywhere in Canada - one price to every province and territory, typically 2–8 business days. Xpresspost is C$32, typically 1–3 business days. Both are tracked. Orders of C$150 or more ship free by tracked parcel, and payment that clears before 6 pm Vancouver time on a business day goes to the post office that same day. Near Vancouver there is a third option: collect it by hand in Burnaby, free at any size of order, with the time and place agreed by email after you reserve.
One of these is about Dried Caps itself. The rest are about the shop or the other specimen, and each one says so.
What did it look like when you opened it? They are so crispy and their aroma is so rich and mushy
How were we to deal with? Easy I received the package 4 days after I made e-transfer
Andrew Leonard · August 2026
What did you order, and why that one? Powder
How long did it take to reach you? 3 days
What did it look like when you opened it? What I expected
What would you tell someone thinking about it? I liked the powder , when I finish mine will order again
Oleksandr · August 2026