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But it wasn’t psilocybin, the psychedelic drug in so-called “magic” mushrooms, but instead the world’s most charismatic fungi, the red and white fly agaric mushroom, known to scientists as Amanita muscaria.

“Amanita muscaria tends not to be a highly visual substance, as one might be used to with tryptamines and other kind of classic psychedelics,” Kevin Feeney, a lecturer at Central Washington University and editor of a compendium on fly agaric, told Salon.

With its iconic bright red cap dotted with white spots, Amanita muscaria, is probably the most recognizable fungi in the world: the default mushroom emoji on WhatsApp, and a power-up for Mario on his quest to rescue Princess Peach.

The website for Silly Farms chocolates mentioned only legal Amanita muscaria extract as an ingredient, saying nothing about the presence of illicit psilocybin.

In L.A., two products did not contain any tryptamines but tested positive for muscimol, one of the compounds found in Amanita muscaria, a legal kind of hallucinogenic mushroom linked to uncomfortable side effects such as sweating and excessive salivation.