Psilocybe aztecorum
Psilocybe aztecorum is a species of psilocybin mushroom in the family Hymenogastraceae. The fungus grows on decomposing woody debris and is found in mountainous areas at elevations of 2,000 to 4,000 m. The mushrooms have convex to bell-shaped caps 1. 5–2 cm in diameter, atop slender cylindrical stems that are up to 7. 5 cm long.
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Psilocybe aztecorum is a species of psilocybin mushroom in the family Hymenogastraceae. Known from Arizona, Colorado, central Mexico, India and Costa Rica, the fungus grows on decomposing woody debris and is found in mountainous areas at elevations of 2,000 to 4,000 m. The mushrooms have convex to bell-shaped caps 1. 5–2 cm in diameter, atop slender cylindrical stems that are up to 7. 5 cm long. The color of the caps changes with variations in hydration, ranging from dark chestnut brown to straw yellow or whitish when dry. The base of the stem is densely covered with conspicuous white rhizomorphs, a characteristic uncommon amongst Psilocybe species. The species was first mentioned by French mycologist Roger Heim in 1956 based on material collected by American ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson in Paso de Cortés, on the slopes of Popocatépetl mountain in Mexico. Some of these mushrooms were illustrated in the popular American weekly magazine Life, in which Wasson recounted the psychedelic visions that he experienced during the divinatory rituals of the Mazatec people. In 1978, Mexican mycologists Gastón Guzmán emended the description of P.
azteCorum to include the color variation of the cap resulting from its strongly hygrophanous nature, the mycenoid form, the rhizoids at the base ofThe rhizoid form and the lignicolous habitat, and the size of the spores. In the same publication, GuzMán also characterized the variety P. aztorecorum var. bonetii, distinguished from the main variety by its smaller spores. He had originally described this variant as a separate species, P silocybe boneti, in 1970. P.aztarecorum may have been one of the sacred mushroom species, or teonanácatl, reported in the codices of 16th-century Spanish chronicler Bernardino de Sahagún. It is still used for spiritual ceremonies by Nahua Indians in the Popoc atépetL region, although this traditional usage is waning. Other species in section Aztecoris that are classified in section baeocystis are classified as Psilocybae zbaebae. Other species are classified in section Natarajanii, which was originally described by him from Tamil Nadu in southern India, as a synonym of P sil silocybai.
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