Psilocybe quebecensis Magic Mushrooms
Psilocybe quebecensis: Background
Psilocybe quebecensis: Habitat
Psilocybe quebecensis magic mushrooms are the most northern known psilocybin mushroom, hailing from Quebec and especially common in the Jacques-Cartier River Valley. This species has also been reported in Cape Breton and Michigan. It grows during late summer to late October solitary to gregariously, rarely in turfs, on the rotting wood of of alder, birch, fir and spruce particularly in the outwashes of streams.
Psilocybe quebecensis: Taxonomy/Naming
Genera
Psilocybe
Species Name
quebecensis
Sub Species
quebecensis
Common Name
Psilocybe quebecensis: Physical Description
Pileas
Cap is originally convex, becoming slightly bell-shaped to more or less plane when mature. Brownish to straw coloured and easily bruises blue/green.
Gills
Gills are attached to the stem and thin, though moderately broad to swollen in the middle. Colour is grayish yellow with green tones, becoming dark brown with white edges at sporulation.
Spore Print
Dark purple-brown
Spores
Dark purple-brown
Stipe
The stem is slightly bulbous, brittle, tough, and fibrous. The base has white mycelial chords, which is yellowish or brownish. Dries to be whitish and easily bruises blue. A partial veil soon disappears with no annulus present.
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