Psilocybe mexicana
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Psilocybe mexicana is a psychedelic mushroom. Its first known usage was by the natives of North and Central America over 2,000 years ago. Known to the Aztecs as teonanácatl, from the Nahuatl teotl + n
Psilocybe mexicana Veracruz
Psilocybe mexicana cheilocystidia and spores 400x
Psilocybe mexicana from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Psilocybe mexicana from Jalisco, Mexico
Psilocin
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Psilocin, also known as 4-hydroxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine, is a psychedelic drug and fungal alkaloid of the tryptamine and 4-hydroxytryptamine families. Along with its phosphate ester psilocybin, it is
Psilocybe mexicana
…Dr. Albert Hofmann, working with specimens grown in his Sandoz laboratory, first isolated and named the active psychedelic compounds psilocybin and psilocin. Uncertain of whether or not the artificially cultivated mushrooms would retain their natural psychoactive properties, Dr. Hofmann consumed 32 specimens…
Dried psilocybin mushrooms. (Notice the characteristic blue bruising by the stems of the mushrooms.)