Panaeolus cyanescens

Copelandia cyanescens · Blue Meanie · Hawaiian

NeotropicalIndomalayanOceanianAustralasian

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.

ECOLOGY & HABITAT

Saprotrophic, fruits on cattle and water-buffalo dung in warm, humid pastures across the tropics.

Distribution

HawaiiMexicoCentral & South AmericaSoutheast AsiaAustraliaAfrica

TRADITIONAL USE

Modern entheogenic use, especially in Bali and Hawaii

CULTURAL CONTEXT

Despite its pan-tropical range, this species has no clearly documented pre-modern ceremonial tradition; its current prominence is largely a product of late-20th-century mycology and entheogenic culture.

GALLERY

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REFERENCES

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Stamets 1996
Gartz 1996

Kin & neighbors

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.

PsilocybinPsilocinBaeocystin

Hardy Western Australian wattle named for the raspberry-jam scent of its freshly cut wood. The bark contains exceptionally high concentrations of N,N-DMT.

Fast-growing tree native to Southeast Asia whose root bark and phyllodes are rich in N,N-DMT and other tryptamines.

Eastern Australian wattle whose phyllode and bark are among the richest known natural sources of N,N-DMT, with a chemical profile that also includes NMT and trace beta-carbolines.

N,N-DMT

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