Drug info - Mushroom Descriptions and Habitats

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Copelandia cyanescens

Cap: 1.5-3.5 (4) cm broad. Hemispherical to campanulate to convex at maturity. Margin initially tranlucent when moist. Incurved in young specimens. Light brown in color becoming pallid gray to whitish with cap craking in age. Bruising blue when handled.

Gills: Adnexed, close and thin, mottled.

Stem: (65) 85-115 mm long by 1.5-3 mm thick. Equal to bulbous at the base with fine fibrillose flecks, partial veil absent. Bluing intensely when damaged bfrom human handling.

Spores: 12-14 X 7.5-11 mics.

Sporeprint: Black.

Habitat: Growing scattered to gregarious in manure heaps in the tropics and neotropics of both hemispheres.

Distribution:Cosmopolitan, In dung in fields and pastures in Hawaii, Louisiana and Florida (United States); Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia (South America); The Philippines, Eastern Australia, India, Bali, Southeast Asia and other similar locations.

Season: During and after heavy rains.

Dosage: 7 to 10 fresh mushrooms and from 1-2 grams dried.

Comment: Although this is a manured mushroom and Paul Stamets reported this species in horse manure from Florida and found specimnes growing in Tenino, Washington, the author of this guide has never collected this species in fields where horses dominate the pastures. Only in gaur, cow and buffalo manure.


Panaeolus subbalteatus

Cap: 2-5.5 cm broad. Fawn-colored to reddish-brown, zonate from the outer edge of the cap with several bands of reddish-brown colors towards the center. Sometimes with a slight umbo. Hygrophanous, fading to a straw yellow to pallid in drying to a pallid dull white. Margin slightly incurved when young, often becoming pitted and wrinkled with age.

Gills:Adnate and slightly ventricose. Brownish to black with white edges.

Stem:4-10 cm x 2-7 mm. Reddish brown with vertical grooves running down the length of the stem. Hollow with short white fibrils. Sometimes bluing at base of the stem.

Spores:11.5-14 x 7.5-9.5m

Sporeprint:Jet black.

Habitat:On dung, rotted and/or composting hay. Also in lawns, pasturelands, riding stables and race tracks, in horse manure and stable shavings. Fruits in the early spring and late fall.

Distribution:Cosmopolitan: Oregon, Washington, Idaho, east coast of the United States, Great Britain, Europe, Russia, Asia, Australia Mexico, Central and South America and British Columbia, Canada.

Season:In the USA, February through May during the spring rains and from mid-August through September.

Dosage:2-5 large specimens or 20-30 small specimens. 3-5 grams dried and/or one ounce of fresh mushrooms.

Comment:Fruits abundantly in rotting haystacks in the Eugene-Corvalis region of Oregon and to a somewhat lesser degree in manure heaps throughout much of the world.


Psilocybe azurescens

Cap: 3-10 cm broad. Conic to convex, expanding to broadly quickly. Flat with age with a pronounced umbo, surface smooth, viscid when moist, with a separate pellicle. Chestnut to caramel in color, bruising blue to blue black when damaged.

Gills: Ascending, sinuate to adnate, brown. mottled, edges white.

Stem: 90-200 mm long x 3-6 mm thick, silky white, fibrous. Base of stem thickening downwards, often curved.

Spores: 12-13.5 x 6.8m.

Sporeprint: Dark purplish black.

Habitat: Cespitose to gregarious. Fruiting abundantly on decidous woodchips, sandy soils rich in lignicolous debris. Prefers alder chips and/or bark mulch. Found in Gardens in parks and around homes and office buildings.

Distribution: Along the northern coast of Oregon in dune grasses. Also found in Washington and British Columbia.

Season: September to December. A cold weather species

Dosage: Extremely potent. 1 to 2 large mushrooms or 2 to 4 small specimens.

Comment: This species has been successfully transplanted into other mulched areas with similar environments. Most recently it has been introduced into Leipzig, Germany with much success. Other cosmopolitan outdoor habitats include: Italy, Austria, Switzerland and in the United States: in New Mexico, Ohio, Wisconsin and Vermont. While this is a good mushroom to transplant, after a few years the patch disappears as the nutrients in the soil and woodchips get eaten up.


Psilocybe cubensis

This is the common mushroom grown and sold on the market

Cap: (15-) 25-70 (-85) mm in diameter, conic to convex, becoming campanulate to gradually expanding to plain. Color Copper in center to a light golden brown. Hygrophanous in drying, remnants of a veil. and bluing in the edge of the cap when injured.

Gills:Adnate ot adnexed to seceding. At first dark gray becoming deep violet gray to dark purplish brown. Sometimes mottled with whitish edges.

Stem: (40-) 70-120 (-170) X (4-) 8-13 (-16) mm. Equal, hollow, stem whitish to a creamy white or yellow brown when faded, easily staining blue where damaged. Fibrillose below the annulus.

Spores: (12-) 13.2-15.4 (-17.6) x 7.7-9.9 (-11) x 7-8.8 microns.

Sporeprint: Chocolate to purple-brown.

Habitat:Gregarious, rarely solitary or scattered, on cow dung, rarely on horse manure. Also in rich soil in pastures and meadows, along roadsides in manure heaps.

Distribution: Very common in subtropical regions, unknown in the tropics. Known in Florida to Texas and North to Georgia, Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala, South America, Viet-Nam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, India , Fiji and Australia. Also either P. cubensis and/or P. subcubensis in British Honduras.

Season:Fruiting in summer, but also in different seasons around the globe.

Dosage:1 or 2 large mushrooms weighing approximately one fresh ounce or 10 to 40 mushrooms weighing same. 1 gram, considered an average dose, three to five grams dried, equivalent to an Indian dosage..


These are just the more common ones.

Also If it is your first time going hunting make sure that the description fits your mushroom. A lot of mushrooms tend to look psychedelic because you want them to. It's good to have a standard set of rules when looking. If you don't know anybody that has done it before, Make sure you have a guide and are 100% sure that what you plan on consuming is safe.

Good luck and happy tripping :wink:

Panaeolus castaneifolius

CAP 1-3(4)cm, distinctly bellshaped at first, soon nearly hemispheric, then convex, and becoming broadly convex in age (never fully expanding), margin incurved when young; hygrophanous, dark smoky gray, drying to more straw yellow or pale ochraceous, remaining more reddish brown at top and smoky brownish along margin; sometimes finely wrinkled, margin not appendiculate, and slightly striate, (Stamets), 1-4cm, convex, never fully expanding, margin incurved when young; hygrophanous dark cinnamon drying to pinkish buff; smooth, often wrinkled, margin even when young, translucent striate when moist, no veil remnants, (PNW keys)

FLESH thick, firm, (PNW keys)

GILLS adnate to adnexed, close, thin; pallid, becoming dark purplish gray-black, (Stamets), adnate to adnexed, subclose; pallid, darkening to chestnut with age, edge white, (PNW keys)

STEM 4-6(7.5)cm x 0.3-0.4(0.6)cm, equal to more narrow toward base, hollow, brittle; grayish to ochraceous or tan at the base; pruinose, slightly striate, (Stamets), 4.5-7cm x 0.4-0.6cm, straight and slightly tapering toward the base, base not enlarged, stem hollow, cartilaginous; colored as cap but may be lighter near the top when young; pruinose, no veil remnants, top slightly striate, (PNW keys)

VEIL no veil remnants on margin

EDIBILITY sometimes slightly hallucinogenic

HABITAT gregarious in grassy places (Stamets)

SPORES dark purplish gray-black (Stamets) 12-15 x 7-9.5 microns, presumably elliptic, finely rough, presumably with germ pore, cheilocystidia 20-28(35) x 7-10 microns, pleurocystidia few or absent, not projecting beyond plane of basidia, (Stamets)

SIMILAR foenisecii (also in grass) but castaneifolius has slightly thicker (0.3-0.6cm) stem without enlarged base, purple-black gills, purple black spores

NOTES features include bellshaped to nearly hemispheric cap, some but not all collections contain psilocybin; rare in PNW


Psilocybe cyanescens

CAP 1.5-4 (5)cm broad, soon convex to broadly convex, then plane or with an uplifted, often wavy margin; surface smooth, viscid when moist, dark brown or reddish-brown becoming caramel-brown, then fading as it dries to tan, yellowish-brown or paler; sometimes with blue or blue-green stains, especially near margin. Flesh thin, bruising blue or blue-green.

GILLS Typically adnate but sometimes seceding, fairly close, brown or cinnamon-brown becoming dark smoky-brown or sometimes bluish-stained; edges curved; dry, whitish, but staining blue to bluish-green when handled or bruised.

VEIL Fibrillose or cobwebby, copious but disappearing or at most forming a very slight ring or hairy zone on stalk.

SPORE PRINT Purple-brown to purple-gray or purple-black; spores 9-12x5-9 microns, elliptical, smooth. Chrysocystidia absent on gills.

HABITAT Widely scattered to densely gregarious on woodchips, sawdust, mulch, and humus, and on lawns rich in lignin; partial to coniferous debris, but fond of adler and eucalyptus. It is fairly common in the San Francisco bay area in cold weather (December through February),especially in landscaped areas and mulched flower beds, and is also fairly common in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.

EDIBILITY Hallucinogenic and extremely potent, especially raw.


Psilocybe semilanceata (Liberty Caps)

CAP 0.5-2.5cm broad and high, narrowly conical to bell-shaped with a pointed umbo, scarcely expanding in age, incurved and sometimes wavy in youth; extremely hygrophanous, chestnut-brown to brown or olive-brown, fading to tan, olive-buff, or even yellowish as it dries, often darkened by spores, sometimes with bluish or olive stains; at least slightly viscid when moist, smooth, margin translucent-striate

FLESH very thin; pallid, bruises blue slightly if at all, but may age olive or slightly bluish

GILLS adnate to adnexed or separating, crowded, narrow; pallid, soon becoming brownish or gray, then finally dark purple-brown or chocolate-brown, edges whitish

STEM 3-10cm x 0.75-0.2(0.3)cm, equal, often curved or sinuous, pliant, stuffed with fibrous pith; whitish or with brownish base, sometimes with a bluish or blue-green tinge in age, especially at base, or may age olive or slightly bluish, bruises blue especially at base, attached mycelium may become bluish tinged, especially during drying; smooth

VEIL absent or rudimentary (thinly cortinate), may leave obscure zone of fibrils, usually darkened by spores

ODOR not distinctive

TASTE slightly unpleasant, grassy

EDIBILITY hallucinogenic, not as potent as cyanescens but more than pelliculosa, 0.2-2.4% psilocybin, no psilocin, 0.2-0.36% baeocystin

HABITAT widely scattered to gregarious in pastures, tall grass, clumps of sedge grass in damper parts of fields, etc., but not dung, fall to early winter, less common in spring

SPORES dark purple-brown, 11-14 x 7-9 microns, elliptic, smooth, presumably with germ pore; basidia 4-spored, chrysocystidia absent on gills, pleurocystidia few to absent, cheilocystidia 18-35 x 4.5-8 microns, flask-shaped with an extended neck bent both ways, often forked

NOTES features include small size, smooth sharply conical cap (which is at least slightly viscid, and is chestnut-brown to brown or olive-brown, fading to tan, olive-buff, or yellowish as it dries), stem that is whitish or with brownish base, sometimes with bluish or blue-green tinge in age, growth in tall grass, and dark purple-brown spore deposit; rarely bruises bluish because high in psilocybin not psilocin; found at least BC, WA, OR

SIMILAR pelliculosa which is less narrowly conical, grows under conifers, and has a more pronounced tendency to bruise or age blue-green, like a form of Panaeolus sphinctrinus that grows inland on manure (Schalkwijk-Barendsen says semilanceata is on seacoasts only)


Psilocybe stuntzii

CAP (5-) 10-20 (-35) µm in diam., conic to convex, then campanulate or subumbonate, frequently subpapillate, becoming shallowly depressed at the disc or plane in the old specimens, glabrous, but with traces of silky white veil at the margin in young stages, even to slightly translucent striate at the margin when moist, viscid to lubricous, with cuticle removable, hygrophanous, dark reddish brown or orangish brown to olivaceous brown or fulvous brown, fading out to ochraceous or pale ochre tone, staining slightly greenish-blue when injured or with the age.

GILLS adnate or sinuate or adnexed, yellowish brown at first, soon violet brown or chocolate brown to blackish violet, uniform or somewhat mottled, with whitish edges.

STEM (20-) 35-65 (-75) x (1.5-) 2-4 (-6) mm, equal or slightly enlarged at the base, cylindric or subcylindric, twisted striate at times, flexuous, glabrous to slightly fibrillose, dry, stuffed with white mycelium to hollow, white or whitish silky to ochraceous or brownish fibrillose; easily staining blue-green when injured or touched, mainly on the base, which finally becomes blackish.

VEIL as a white, thin membrane forming an annulus, fragile and persistent, rarely absent (Plate 7), thin, white, smooth below but slightly striate above, with subgelatinous margin; easily bluing along the margin.

Flesh whitish or light to dark yellowish-brown, translucent to somewhat pliant in the pileus, tough in the stipe, staining blue when cut mainly in young stages. Odor and taste strong farinaceous in young stages, but weak in the adults. KOH staining the pileus and context reddish brown, negative or rose on the stipe or in young specimens.

SPORE PRINT deep violaceous to dark violaceous purple.

SPORES (8.2-) 9.3-10.4 (-13.5) X 6-7.1 (-7.7) x 5.5-6.6 µm, subrhomboid in face view, Subellipsoid in side view, with a hilar appendage visible and a truncate apex with a broad germ pore, thick walled, dingy yellow brown.

BASIDIA 16.5-33 x 5.5-8.8 µm, 4-spored, hyaline, sterigmata 3-4.4 µm long, subcylindric, with the median region slightly constricted.

PLEUROCYSTIDIA absent.

CHEILOCYSTIDIA 22-30 x 4.4-6.6 µm, abundant, forming a sterile band, hyaline, lageniform, fusiform-lanceolate or fusoid-ampullaceous, with an elongate and flexuous neck, 1-2.2 µm in diameter, sometimes irregularly branched. Subhymenium seemingly not cellular, with yellowish brown, hyphae with pigment irregularly incrusted and distributed on the hyphae walls. Trama regular with hyaline elongate cylindric or subglobose hyphae cells. Epicutis consisting of a thick pellicle with filamentous hyphae, moderately to strongly gelatinized, hyaline or yellowish, 1.6-5 µm in diameter. Hypodermium of compact subglobose hyphae, 5-10 µm diam., hyaline or more or less colores brownish to brownish red. The hyphae of the annulus hyaline, parallel to the surface, some gelatinized, 2-9 µm diam. Yellow brown lactiferous hyphae 2-5 µm diam. present in the hypodermium.
Clamp connections present on all the hyphae.

HABITAT AND DISTRIBUTION Scattered to gregarious in dense clusters, rarely solitary, on soil or on small plant fragments such as bark residues, or on bark mulsh of conifers, or on well decomposed manure, in grasses, gardens or lawns in the cities, rarely in grassland or meadows. Fruiting from August to December. Only known from the Northwest North America, from Vancouver (Canada) to California (U.S.A.), but especially common in Washington and Oregon state