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Living organisms in which this compound is naturally found.
Small, fragile psilocybin-producing mushroom of well-watered grass and moss. Very easy to overlook and very easy to confuse with several deadly Conocybe and Galerina species — included here for taxonomic completeness rather than as a recommendation.
Wood-decaying rust-spored mushroom whose bright golden flesh contains psilocybin alongside an intensely bitter taste — a chemical combination that has prevented it from ever becoming popular for recreational use.
Small European fibrecap that, uniquely within an otherwise toxic genus, produces psilocybin, baeocystin, and the quaternary tryptamine aeruginascin — the latter discovered through accidental poisonings.
Widely distributed, moderately potent psilocybin-containing mushroom — one of the most common temperate dung and compost species, and often the first encountered by accidental foragers.
Pantropical dung-loving mushroom widely regarded as one of the most potent natural sources of psilocybin and psilocin — often several times stronger by weight than Psilocybe cubensis.
A pale-grey shield-cap mushroom that grows on rotting willow, beech, and other deciduous wood across Europe and North America. Contains psilocybin and psilocin at modest concentrations — one of the very few psilocybin-producing species outside the Psilocybe and Panaeolus genera.
One of the most potent psilocybin-containing mushrooms in the world. Produces exceptionally high levels of psilocybin and psilocin.
Wood-loving Pacific Northwest mushroom and the type species for the alkaloid baeocystin. Often dark, sticky, and prone to staining a deep indigo blue.
Small psilocybin-producing mushroom of deciduous hardwood forest east of the Mississippi. The species epithet "caerulipes" — "blue foot" — refers to the strong bluing reaction at the base of the stem when bruised.
One of the most widely cultivated and studied psilocybin-producing mushrooms. Cosmopolitan species with a distinctive golden cap and strong blue bruising reaction.
Highly potent wood-loving psilocybin mushroom famous for its wavy cap margin and intense blue bruising. One of the strongest naturally occurring species in temperate climates.
Small psilocybin mushroom historically used in sacred mushroom ceremonies by the Mazatec and other indigenous groups in Mexico.
Southern African dung-loving psilocybin mushroom morphologically similar to P. cubensis but adapted to subtropical grassland conditions.
Slender, conical-capped psilocybin mushroom of Pacific Northwest conifer forest. Lower in psilocybin than P. azurescens or P. cyanescens but far more abundant where it grows — long, narrow troops appearing on conifer debris and old logging tracks in autumn rain.
Small, potent, conical-capped mushroom that is among the most widespread psilocybin species in temperate regions.
Small to medium psilocybin-producing mushroom of the Pacific Northwest. Famously fond of well-watered urban lawns and wood-chip beds, which has given it the colloquial name "the lawnmower's mushroom". Caution: deadly Galerina marginata grows in the same habitat and is easily confused with it.
Rare wild mushroom famous for producing dense underground sclerotia — the so-called 'magic truffles' that have become the legal substrate for psilocybin retreats and microdosing in the Netherlands.
Robust, dark-spored mushroom of Mesoamerican cloud forests, used ceremonially by Zapotec, Chatino, and Mixe peoples and considered one of the sacred 'teonanácatl' species.
- Passie 2002 DOI
- Nichols 2016 DOI
- Recent clinical trials
