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

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I am creating this thread in an attempt to make sense of the different types of magic mushrooms and help others understand what I am trying to learn as I learn it.

I understand that there are quite a number of species of mushrooms containing the chemical psilocybin, which is directly responsible for the mental and physical effects of the mushroom. Of these 200+ types containing psilocybin, there are several main types commonly availible, and several lesser-known varieties. Because all contain the chemical psilocybin, the effects are very similar from type to type, excluding truffles. I am still doing research, all claims are merely such.

The main types are the ones most commonly found in nature, and are quite easy to locate, pick, and consume with basic knowledge of said activities. The main types include. First off, let’s start with some basic information regarding identifying characteristics.
Mushroom Characteristics
Shrooms are easily identified by a number of key features, consisting of the gills, cap (pileus), hymenium, stipe (stem), spore-print, and ecology. The hymenophore is the part of the shroom that contains the gills and produces spores. You could think of it as the cap if that helps. The hymenium is “the tissue layer on the hymenophore (or cap) of a fungal fruiting body where the cells develop into basidia or asci, which produce spores.” This basically means it is the thin covering over the cap that protects the gills from rain, dirt, and other dangers which threaten to upset the production of spores. The gills, or lamella are “the papery ribs under the cap of a mushroom.” The stype (or stem) is the part that holds up the mushroom cap – think of it like the trunk. When classifying shrooms, the hymenium is the most notable feature. Finally, we have the ecology. The ecology is the root growth method. The most common method is mycorrhiza, which describes the symbiotic relationship between a mushroom and a plant. IE – Sharing common roots for nutrients.


Amanita muscaria
Common Name: Fly Agaric
Location: Amanita muscaria is common all over the world, found naturally in birch, pine, spruce and fir woodlands across the northern hemisphere from the British Isles to Siberia, and North America. It has been widely transported into the southern hemisphere, including Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and South America, where it usually occurs under introduced pine trees. In Australia it appears to have formed new associations with southern beech in Tasmania and Victoria and invading native rainforest. When imported to a new country, A. muscaria can jump to native species (for example, Eucalyptus in Australia). It can then be exported with its new symbiont (for example, from Australia to Argentina). A recent molecular study proposes an ancestral origin in the Siberian–Beringian region in the Tertiary period before radiating outwards across Asia, Europe and North America.
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Gills on Hymenium
Cap - Flat or convex
Hymenium - Free
Stem has a ring and volva
Spore print - White
Ecology - Mycorrhizal
Amanita muscaria is a large distinctive mushroom, generally common and numerous where it grows, often being found in groups with basidiocarps in all stages of development. Fully grown, the bright red cap is usually around 8-20 cm (3-8 in) in diameter, though sometimes larger ones are found, and is covered with numerous small white to yellow flecks (warts). It is worth noting that the red color may fade after rain and in older mushrooms. The warts are remnants of the universal veil, a membrane that encloses the entire mushroom when it is still very young. The gills are white, as is the sporeprint. The stem is white, 5-20 cm high (approximately 2-8 inches), with a basal bulb that bears universal veil remnants, in the form of a ragged collar or group of more or less distinct rings or ruffs that circles the base of the stalk (or stipe). The white ring can be quite wide and flaccid. There is generally no associated smell. Fly agaric fruiting bodies emerge from the soil looking like a white egg, covered in the white warty material of the universal veil. As the fungus grows, the red colour appears through the broken veil, and the cap changes from bell-shaped to hemispherical and finally flattening in mature specimens. Though very distinctive, the fly agaric has been mistaken for other yellow to red species in the Americas such as Armillaria cf. mellea and the edible Amanita basii, a Mexican species similar to A. caesarea of Europe. Poison control centers in the U.S. and Canada are aware that "amarillo" is a common name of caesarea-like species in Mexico, not just the Spanish for 'yellow'. Amanita caesarea can be distinguished as it has an entire orange red cap, lacking the numerous white warty spots of the fly agaric. Furthermore the stem, gills and ring are bright yellow, not white. Finally the volva is a distinct white bag, not broken into scales. In Australia, the introduced fly agaric may be confused with the local Amanita xanthocephala, which grows in association with Eucalypts. This species also generally lacks the white warts of A. muscaria and bears no ring.
Frequency: Quite common
Potency: Mild to moderate
Dosage: 4.5grams dried for an intense trip
Notes: This is the most widely known and available mushroom, which many base experiences off of or in relation to.

Panaeolus subbalteatus
Location: Commonly found in North America, most notably in the Pacific Northwest, the Gulf States and Mexico.
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Gills - on Hymenium
Cap - Convex
Hymenium - Adnate
Stipe/stem - Bare
Spore print - Black
Ecology - Saprophytic

Potency: Unknown at this point
Dosage: Unknown at this point
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Psilocybe australiana
Location: The psilocybe australiana is located primarily in Victoria, New South Wales, Western Australia and New Zealand. Most often seen growing on Eucalyptus and pine mulch, additionally in soil possessing leafy or woody debris, on trails and roadsides, in Pinus radiata plantations, or in temperate rain forests.
Characteristics: gills on hymenium
Cap - convex or flat
Hymenium - adnate or adnexed
Stipe has a ring
Ecology is saprophytic
“Commonly it is large umbonated mushroom with a sharp nipple, orangy brown hydrophanous cap, often with a margin flecked with white veil remnants and strongly visible radial lines. The stem is a strong white with a consistant radius, chestnust brown when the flesh is broken. The gills are very crowded, whitish brown soon dark chocolate brown and ascending towards the stem. Cap and stem often spotted with dark blue stains, and flesh quickly stains bluish/black upon damage.”
Potency: Unknown at this point
Dosage: Unknown at this point
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Psilocybe azurescens
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Psilocybe azurescens is a psychedelic mushroom whose main active compounds are psilocybin and psilocin. It is among the most potent of the tryptamine-bearing mushrooms, containing up to 1.8% psilocybin, 0.5% psilocin, and 0.4% baeocystin by dry weight, averaging to about 1.1% psilocybin and 0.15% psilocin. It belongs to the family Strophariaceae in the order Agaricales.
Pileus 30-100 mm in diameter, conic to convex, expanding to broadly convex and eventually flattening with age with a pronounced, persistent broad umbo; surface smooth, viscous when moist, covered by a separable gelatinous pellicle; chestnut to ochraceous brown to caramel in color often becoming pitted with dark blue or bluish black zones, hygrophanous, fading to light straw color in drying, strongly bruising blue when damaged; margin even, sometimes irregular and eroded at maturity, slightly incurved at first, soon decurved, flattening with maturity, translucent striate and often leaving a fibrillose annular zone in the upper regions of the stem. Lamellae ascending, sinuate to adnate, brown, often stained info-black where injured, close, with two tiers of lamellulae, mottled, edges withish. Spore-print dark purplish brown to purplish black in mass. Stipe 90-200 mm long by 3-6 mm thick, silky white, dingy brown from the base or in age, hollow at maturity. Composed of twisted, cartilaginous tissue. Base of stem thickening downwards, often curved, and characterized by coarse white aerial tufts of mycelium, often with azure tones. Mycelium surrounding stipe base densely rhizomorphic (i.e., root-like), silky white, tenaciously holding the wood-chips together, strongly bruising bluish upon disturbance. They have no odor to slightly farinaceous. Their taste is extremely bitter.
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Psilocybe baeocystis
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Psilocybe baeocystis is a psychedelic mushroom of the Agaricales family, having psilocybin and psilocin as main active compounds along with a relatively significant amount of baeocystin.

Psilocybe baeocystis is found growing on decaying conifer mulch, wood chips and substrates containing high amounts of lignin. It is common throughout the Pacific Northwest.
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Psilocybe bohemica
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Little to no information readily availible in known sources. Still locating information on this type of mushroom, feel free to post some.

Psilocybe cyanescens
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Wavy cap or Caramel-capped psilocybe (Psilocybe cyanescens Wakef.) is a psychedelic mushroom whose main active compounds are psilocybin and psilocin. It belongs to the family Strophariaceae in the order Agaricales. It was described from Kew Gardens, United Kingdom, by E. M. Wakefield in the 1940s. It is one of the most popular psychoactive fungi. There are two concepts of this species as Psilocybe cyanescens Wakef. emend. Krieglst. (Krieglsteiner 1984) and Psilocybe cyanescens Wakef. sensu stricto (Borovička 2005). The most related species is Psilocybe azurescens Stamets & Gartz which differs by conical and acutely umbonated pileus, mottled stipe with remains of veil building a well-developed fibrillose annular zone, large fruit bodies and somewhat longer spores. Some European (EU) or Australian (AU) species are close to Psilocybe cyanescens, especially Psilocybe serbica (EU), Psilocybe arcana (EU), Psilocybe moravica (EU), Psilocybe aucklandii (AU), Psilocybe eucalypta (AU) and others.
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Psilocybe cubensis
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Psilocybe cubensis is a species of psychedelic mushroom whose principle active compounds are psilocybin and psilocin. Psilocybe cubensis belongs to the Strophariaceae family of fungi and is sometimes known as Stropharia cubensis. The mushrooms are reddish-cinnamon brown to golden brown in color and they will turn bluish/purplish when bruised.[1] Their caps are planar when fully mature, and their gills are adnate (horizontally attached to the stem) to adnexed (slightly indented at the attachment point) depending on the variety. The mycelia are like microscopic straws that look similar in appearance to foam or hoarfrost. The gills are closely spaced and contain microscopic dust-like dark purple spores that are self-propagating (unlike seeds which require plant reproduction).
Psilocybe cubensis is a coprophilic fungus (one that prefers to grow on dung or manured soils) that often colonizes the dung of large herbivores, most notably cows and other grazing mammals such as goats. It prefers humid grasslands and has been found in tropical and subtropical environments. In the US, it is sometimes found growing wild in the South, generally below the 35th parallel. It has been found in modern times in the highlands and river valleys of Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela in South America. It has also been found throughout Thailand, Cambodia, India, and Australia.
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Psilocybe Mexicana
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Psilocybe mexicana is a psychedelic mushroom of the Agaricales family, having psilocybin and psilocin as main active compounds. It is a close relative to the European liberty cap. It was "rediscovered" by French mycologist Roger Heim during his trip to Mexico in 1956.
Psilocybe mexicana is found about 4000 to 5000 feet above sea level from the South of Mexico to Guatemala, especially in limestone regions. The species grows either isolated or sparsely in moss along roadsides and trails, humid meadows or cornfields, as well as in the margin of deciduous forests.
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Psilocybe semilanceata
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Psilocybe semilanceata, the liberty cap, is a psychedelic mushroom that contains the psychoactive compound psilocybin. It grows on grassy meadows and similar; particularly in wet, south-facing fields and other habitats well fertilised by sheep and other cattle feces, although unlike Psilocybe cubensis it does not grow directly on the dung itself. It is found throughout the cool temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
The mushroom takes its name from an actual cap, the Phrygian cap, also known as the liberty cap, which it resembles.
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Psilocybe tampanensis
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Psilocybe tampanensis is a psychedelic mushroom whose only known natural specimen was collected in the wild by Stephen Pollock, near Tampa, Florida in 1977. All spores and cultivations of this species nowadays are originated from this only specimen.
Since the collection in 1977, this species has never been seen growing wild in Florida again. Another sighting case was reported in Mississippi, but no culturable material was collected.
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Psilocybe weilii
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Psilocybe weilii is a psilocybin-containing mushroom found only in northern Georgia in the United States. It is named after Andrew Weil, the famous naturopath.
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All information is merely for educational purposes only. I do not advocate the participation in illegal activities, all situations theoretical. All information is protected under the GNU Free Documentation License. Much of the above information is user-submitted material from wikipedia.org -- I hope I've helped someone else with this. I also hope to develop my findings, add some pics, sum up what I have posted etc etc...