Magic mushroom species

Most of the list below is taken from and (most of) the links point to John Allen's Magic Mushroom web site. I'm the process of collecting info on every species and I'll update this page every release. I you can point me to more info, please let me know in the forum (left-bottom link).

Copelandia cambodgeniensis is probably the most potent of the Copelandia species. Is very common on Oahu Island in Hawaii.

Copelandia magic mushrooms are of the Cyanescens variety (nick-named: Hawaiian) will give a very intense and wild trip, very confronting. The effects are very strong and suitable for experienced trippers only. The trip can last for 8 hours. From www.thefane.org: Copelandia occurs on soil and dung in Florida, Louisiana, Hawaii, Central America, Brazil, the Philipines and Eastern Australia. It is cultivated on cow and buffalo dung on Bali.

More info: http://www.mykoweb.com

More info: http://www.mykoweb.com

From www.thefane.org: This mushroom grows throughout North America on dung and well manured grounds in the Spring through the Fall. The cap has a cinnamon brown band around the edge. It has a blackish purple sporeprint. It is widely distributed in North America, South America, Europe, middle Siberia, Africa, and the Hawaiian archipelago.

Psilocybe Azurescens (or blue psilocybe) is a very potent species, if not the most potent of all the psilocybin mushroom species. The Psilocybe Azurescens is only for the very experienced psychonaut. It is the psilocybin that colors them azur (blue). The Azurescens is quite difficult to cultivate, what explains that they are hard to come by.

From "New Aspects of the Occurrence, Chemistry, and Cultivation of European Hallucinogen Mushrooms", by Jochen Gartz:
These mushrooms were already found in Czechoslovakia near Sazava in 1942. They blue consistently after bruising and spontaneously in the age. The fruit bodies grow up to 15 cm high on humus and wood chips in the woods. The species is widespread in Czechoslovakia (9) and it will probably be reported from many other European countries in the next years. Recent finds in Austria and Germany support this claim. The analysis of fruit bodies revealed psilocybin, baeocystin and in some cases psilocin. Psilocybin levels varied from 0.11% up to 1.34% by dry weight (9). The content of psilocybin and baeocystin was highest in the caps of the mushrooms. Psilocybin content flucatuates between 0.2 and 1.4 % in dried Psilocybe Bohemica.

From www.thefane.org: Also referred to as the Landslide mushroom. Gordon Wasson's first ingestion of the sacred mushroom consisted of Psilocybe Caerulescens received at a velada conducted by Maria Sabina in Huatla de Jimenenez, Mexico on the night of June 29/30, 1955. The Landslide Mushroom can be found in late spring and summer on disturbed land throughout central Mexico. It is also reported in Venezuela and Brazil.

Cubensis is the most popular of the psilocybe magic mushrooms. Cubensis is quite potent and relatively easy to grow. Probably it is the most cultivated psychoactive mushroom.

From: mycoweb.
Pileus: Cap 2-4.5 cm broad, convex, becoming nearly plane with a low umbo; margin striate, often wavy, sometimes upturned in age; surface smooth, sticky when moist, hygrophanous, brown, fading to yellow-brown or buff; flesh thin, brittle in age, bruising blue.
Lamellae: 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.
Stipe: Stipe 3-6 cm tall, 3-6 mm thick, equal to sometimes enlarged at the base, the latter with conspicuous thickened mycelium (rhizomorphs); surface white, smooth to silky, bruising blue; veil fibrillose, forming a superior, evanescent hairy, annular zone.
Spores: Spores 9-12 x 6-8 µm, elliptical, smooth, with an apical pore; spore print purple-brown to purple-grey.
Habitat: Scattered to gregarious on woody debris, leaf litter, and wood chips; fruiting from late summer in watered areas to mid-winter.
Edibility: Hallucinogenic.
Comments: Psilocybe cyanescens is recognized by a chestnut-brown, striate, wavy-margined cap that soon fades to yellow brown or buff, and blue-staining fruiting body. Because of its hallucinogenic properties, it is sometimes the subject of experimentation, a potentially dangerous practice because of toxic look-alikes in Galerina, Conocybe and Inocybe.

From www.thefane.org: Reported to grow in limestone regions at elevations between 4,500 and 5,500 feet in southern Mexico and Guatemala. It fruits from June until October and is found among moss or herbs along roadsides, humid meadows, cornfields, and also in the neighborhood of deciduous forests. Psilocybe Mexicana was collected along with other species by the Wassons and French mycologist Roger Heim during several field trips to Mexico around 1958. Heim's assistant Roger Cailleux managed to grow this and other species in the laboratory. Professor Heim sent the dried specimens to Albert Hofmann and his colleagues Arthur Bracke and Hans Kobel who successfully extracted and subsequently identified the chemical psychedelics, psilocyn and psilocybin, at the Sandoz laboratories in Switzerland

Liberty caps is another (common) name for Psilocybe Semilanceata. These magic mushrooms grow abundant in the wild in moderate climat zones. Lots of psychonauts in the UK go hunting for Liberty Caps in early fall (Sept / Oct). Liberty caps are medium potent. From www.thefane.org: Also known as Liberty Cap named after the Phrygian headgear worn by certain liberators during the French revolution. The headgear was also a popular symbol during the American revolution against Britain. The Liberty Cap grows in north temperate areas and is quite plentiful on the Emerald Isles of Ireland where it is commonly referred to as Pookie. It is mentioned in Thomas Keightley's The Fairy Mythology (1850) as "those pretty small delicate fungi, with their conical heads, which are named Fairy mushrooms in Ireland, where they grow so plentifully." It also grows in England as well as northwest U.S. and British Columbia and has been reported in the northeastern U.S., St. Petersburg, other parts of Europe, South Africa, Chile, northern India, Australia, and Tasmania. It fruits in grass particularly in sedge grass in the damp portions of fields during the Fall but does not grow on dung like its cousin Isidore.
Psilocybin and baeocystin content (%) in 3 dry samples of PS. Source: Jochen Gartz

Flush No.	Psilocybin	Baeocystin
1	0.91	0.15
2	1.04	0.20
3	0.92	0.21
4	1.12	0.19

The Tampanensis magic mushroom is also known as the truffle or philosophers stone. This magic mushroom will give you a philosophical, happy and visual trip. The Tampanensis magic mushroom can last as long as 6 hours. They look very different from the other magic mushrooms.