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  • Psilocybe cyanescens
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  • Psilocybe cyanescens, also known as wavy caps is a potent psychedelic mushroom whose main active compounds are psilocybin and psilocin. It belongs to the family Strophariaceae and was described from Kew Gardens, England, by E. M. Wakefield in the 1940s. This species is closely related to Psilocybe azurescens which can be distinguished by its conical and acutely umbonate pileus, larger fruit bodies and longer spores.
  • Water-soaked hardwood chips, available in hardware stores as chips for smoking fish and game. Water-soaked corrugated cardboard. Fresh chipped hardwood. Landscape mulch.
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spore color
  • black
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Kingdom
  • Fungi
Habitat
  • tropical
Name
  • Psilocybe cyanescens
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Image caption
  • Psilocybe Cyans!
Species
  • Cyanescens
Genus
Cap
  • 2
Class
  • Hymenomycetes
gills
  • adnate to seceding, close when young, subdistant in age, pale cinnamon brown, becoming dark grey-brown, edges lighter than the faces, mottled from spores at maturity.
spore print
  • Purple-brown to purple-gray or purple-black; Spores 9-12 x 6-8 µm, elliptical, smooth, with an apical pore; spore print purple-brown to purple-grey.
stipe
  • 3
veil
  • absent
Synonyms
  • * Wavy Cap * Cyan * Blue halo * Caramel cap
Family
  • Strophariaceae
Order
  • Agaricales
Phylum
  • Basidiomycota
Common name
  • Wavy cap
fae sensitivity
  • mild
substrates
  • hardwoods
bruising
  • blue or blue-green
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  • Psilocybe cyanescens, also known as wavy caps is a potent psychedelic mushroom whose main active compounds are psilocybin and psilocin. It belongs to the family Strophariaceae and was described from Kew Gardens, England, by E. M. Wakefield in the 1940s. This species is closely related to Psilocybe azurescens which can be distinguished by its conical and acutely umbonate pileus, larger fruit bodies and longer spores.
  • Water-soaked hardwood chips, available in hardware stores as chips for smoking fish and game. Water-soaked corrugated cardboard. Fresh chipped hardwood. Landscape mulch.