Psilocybe Mexicana

The Psilocybe Mexicana is one of the most famous and popular truffles ever. In ceremonial practices, South American natives have been using it for thousands of years. It comes with a very enjoyable and warm journey which is not forgotten easily. There is no strong impact on this insect, and it is ideal for beginners.

Also, in 1958, the American mycologist Robert Watson invented it. I mean, from that moment on, people from the West began playing with it. Since the Maya, Aztecs, and all sorts of other population groups from Central and South America used this mushroom for thousands of years, it became known as “the flesh of the gods” because of its strong effects.

Psilocybe Mexicana Distribution and habitat

it  grows alone or in small groups among moss along roadsides and trails, humid meadows or cornfields, in particular in the grassy areas bordering deciduous forests. Common at elevations between 300–550 metres (980–1,800 ft), rare in lower elevations, known only from Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala. Fruiting takes place from May to October.

Description

• Cap: (0.5)1 — 2(3) cm in diameter, conic to campanulate or subumbonate and often with a slight papilla, hygrophanous or glabrescent, even to striate at the margin, ocherous to brown or beige to straw color in age, sometimes with blueish or greenish tones, easily turning blue when injured.
• Gills: Adnate or adnexed, gray to purple-brown with whitish edges.
• Spore Print: Dark purple-brown
• Stipe: 4 — 10(12.5) cm tall x 1 — 2(3) mm thick, equal, hollow, straw color to brownish or reddish-brown, becoming darker where injured, annulus absent.
• Odor: Farinaceous
• Taste: Farinaceous
• Microscopic features: Spores 8 — 12 x 5 — 8 μm. Ovoid and smooth. Cheilocystidia 13–34 μm, fusoid-ampullaceous to sublageniform, sometimes with a forked neck. Pleurocystidia sublageniform or absent.

Psilocybe mexicana may form sclerotia, a dormant form of the organism, which affords it some protection from wildfires and other natural disasters.^[3]