One of the most widely cultivated and studied psilocybin-producing mushrooms. Cosmopolitan species with a distinctive golden cap and strong blue bruising reaction.
Saprotrophic, grows on dung of large herbivores in tropical and subtropical pastures.
- Modern entheogenic use worldwide
- Sacred mushroom ceremonies in parts of Mexico
Became globally famous through the work of María Sabina and later Terence McKenna. One of the primary species used in contemporary psychedelic research.
- Stamets 1996
- Guzmán 2000
- Clinical trials 2016-2025



