Southern African dung-loving psilocybin mushroom morphologically similar to P. cubensis but adapted to subtropical grassland conditions.
ECOLOGY & HABITAT
Saprotrophic on cattle and wildebeest dung in subtropical grasslands of southern Africa.
Distribution
South AfricaMozambiqueSwaziland
TRADITIONAL USE
- No clearly documented traditional ceremonial use
CULTURAL CONTEXT
Described relatively recently (Gartz, Reid, Smith & Eicker 1995). Its very existence pushed back the assumption that psilocybin species were absent from sub-Saharan Africa.
GALLERY
2 images
REFERENCES
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- Gartz et al. 1995
