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Psilocybe Cyanescens Culture
In recent times the mycologists of the West have discovered that an intimate tie of mutual help links certain mushrooms to certain kinds of trees, each of such mushroom species being thus related to one or more kinds of trees. These mushrooms may assume a slightly different appearance according to the kind of tree the individual specimen lives with. Ls Seeds 1012 Pm19 Hall listed the following species as mind-altering agents which were possibly being ingested by collectors of Australias wild psychoactive fungi Copelandia cyanescens, Psilocybe collybioides, Psilocybe cubensis, Psilocybe subaeruginosa, Psilocybe semilanceata, Gymnopilus spectabilis and Panaeolus subbalteatus. The latter occurs naturally in Australia, is psychoactive, and is known to be used as a recreational drug in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. In 1974, Dr.
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They include Psilocybe cubensis andor Psilocybe subcubensis known locally as gold caps andor gold tops, Psilocybe subaeruginosa, and Copelandia cyanescens the latter is known locally as blue meanies. These four species contain the mind altering alkaloids psilocybine Grow and psilocine and are the most common hallucinogenic mushrooms in Australia.