Back Psilocybe cyanescens AST Psilocybe cyanescens CEB Lysohlávka modrající Czech Cap tonnog Welsh Blauender Kahlkopf German Psilocybe cyanescens Spanish Psilocybe cyanescens Basque Myrkkymadonlakki Finnish Psilocybe cyanescens French Psilocybe cyanescens Galician
| Psilocybe cyanescens | |
|---|---|
| |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Hymenogastraceae |
| Genus: | Psilocybe |
| Species: | P. cyanescens
|
| Binomial name | |
| Psilocybe cyanescens | |
Psilocybe cyanescens | |
|---|---|
 | Gills on hymenium |
 | Cap is umbonate |
 | Hymenium is adnate or subdecurrent |
 | Stipe is bare |
 | Spore print is blackish-brown to purple |
 | Ecology is saprotrophic |
 | Edibility is psychoactive |
Psilocybe cyanescens, commonly known as the wavy cap or potent psilocybe,[1] is a species of potent psychedelic mushroom. The main compounds responsible for its psychedelic effects are psilocybin and psilocin. It belongs to the family Hymenogastraceae. A formal description of the species was published by Elsie Wakefield in 1946 in the Transactions of the British Mycological Society, based on a specimen she had recently collected at Kew Gardens.[2] She had begun collecting the species as early as 1910.[3][4] The mushroom is not generally regarded as being physically dangerous to adults.[5][6] Since all the psychoactive compounds in P. cyanescens are water-soluble, the fruiting bodies can be rendered non-psychoactive through parboiling, allowing their culinary use. However, since most people find them overly bitter and they are too small to have great nutritive value, this is not frequently done.[5]
Psilocybe cyanescens can sometimes fruit in colossal quantities; more than 100,000 individual mushrooms were found growing in a single patch at a racetrack in England.[7]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
MDwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Dennis, R.W.G.; Wakefield, E.M. (1 September 1946). "New or interesting British fungi". Transactions of the British Mycological Society. 29 (3): 141–166. doi:10.1016/S0007-1536(46)80038-X.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
fieldmycowas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Duffy, Thomas. "Toxic Fungi of Western North America". Myokoweb. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
- ^ a b Paul Stamets (2000). Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms. Ten Speed Press. p. 329. ISBN 978-1-58008-175-7.
- ^ Gartz, Jochen (1998). "Observations on the Psilocybe cyanescens complex of Europe and America". Ann. Mus. Civ Rovereto. 12.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
guardianwas invoked but never defined (see the help page).