Psilocybe quebecensis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Agaricales |
Family: | Hymenogastraceae |
Genus: | Psilocybe |
Species: | P. quebecensis
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Binomial name | |
Psilocybe quebecensis Ola'h & R. Heim 1967
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Psilocybe quebecensis | |
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Gills on hymenium | |
Cap is convex or conical | |
Hymenium is adnate or sinuate | |
Stipe is bare | |
Spore print is purple-brown | |
Ecology is saprotrophic | |
Edibility is psychoactive |
Psilocybe quebecensis is a moderately active hallucinogenic mushroom in the section Aztecorum, having psilocybin and psilocin as main active compounds. Native to Quebec, it is the most northern known psilocybin mushroom after Psilocybe semilanceata in northern Scandinavia.[1] Macroscopically this mushroom somewhat resembles Psilocybe baeocystis.