Robust, dark-spored mushroom of Mesoamerican cloud forests, used ceremonially by Zapotec, Chatino, and Mixe peoples and considered one of the sacred 'teonanácatl' species.
ECOLOGY & HABITAT
Grows in moist, mossy soil and decaying wood in mountainous cloud-forest habitats.
Distribution
Mexico (Oaxaca, Veracruz)GuatemalaColombiaVenezuelaBrazil
TRADITIONAL USE
- Used ceremonially by Zapotec, Chatino, and Mixe peoples of southern Mexico
CULTURAL CONTEXT
One of the species documented by R. Gordon Wasson and Roger Heim during the 1950s ethnomycological expeditions to Oaxaca.
GALLERY
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REFERENCES
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- Heim & Wasson 1958
- Guzmán 1983
