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.
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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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| - 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.
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| - 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.
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| - * Wavy Cap
* Cyan
* Blue halo
* Caramel cap
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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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