Panaeolus tropicalis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Agaricales |
Family: | Bolbitiaceae |
Genus: | Panaeolus |
Species: | P. tropicalis
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Binomial name | |
Panaeolus tropicalis Ola'h
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Panaeolus tropicalis | |
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Gills on hymenium | |
Cap is convex or campanulate | |
Hymenium is adnexed | |
Stipe is bare | |
Spore print is black | |
Ecology is saprotrophic | |
Edibility is psychoactive |
Panaeolus tropicalis is a species of psilocybin producing mushroom in the family Bolbitiaceae. It is also known as Copelandia tropicalis.
The
cap is 1.5 — 2(2.5) cm and hemispheric to convex to
companulate. The margin is incurved when young, clay-colored, often reddish brown towards the disc,
hygrophanous, smooth, and grayish to greenish; it is translucent-striate at the margin when wet. It becomes blue when bruised.
The
gills are
adnexed, distinctly mottled, and dully grayish with blackish spots.
The
stipe is 5–12 cm long, 2–3 mm thick, hollow, and vertically striate. It is blackish towards the base, greyish towards the apex, and pallid to whitish fibrils run the length of the stipe. The stipe is equal to slightly swollen at the base and lacks a partial
veil.
Panaeolus tropicalis
spores are dark violet to jet black,
ellipsoid, and 10.5–12.0 x 7–9
µm. The
basidia each produce two spores.
Like many other hallucinogenic mushrooms, this fungus readily bruises blue where it is handled. It can be differentiated from Panaeolus cyanescens by microscopic characteristics.
Panaeolus tropicalis is a mushroom that grows on dung. It is most often found in Hawaii, Central Africa, and Cambodia; it can also be found in Mexico, Tanzania, the Philippines, Florida, and Japan.