Panaeolus cyanescens

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Panaeolus cyanescens
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Panaeolus cyanescens
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Bolbitiaceae
Genus: Panaeolus
Species:
P. cyanescens
Binomial name
Panaeolus cyanescens
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Range of Panaeolus cyanescens
Synonyms

Agaricus cyanescens
Copelandia anomala
Copelandia cyanescens
Copelandia papilonacea
Copelandia westii

Contents

Panaeolus cyanescens
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Gills icon.png Gills on hymenium
Convex cap icon.svg Cap is convex
Adnate gills icon2.svg Hymenium is adnate
Bare stipe icon.svg Stipe is bare
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Spore print is black
Saprotrophic fungus.svgEcology is saprotrophic
Mycomorphbox Psychoactive.pngEdibility is psychoactive

Panaeolus cyanescens, commonly known as the blue-staining panaeolus, [1] [a] is a psychoactive mushroom in the Bolbitiaceae family.

Description

The cap is 1.5–4 centimetres (121+12 in) across, dry, at first hemispheric, expanding to campanulate or convex, [1] with an incurved margin when young. Young caps start out light brown and fade to off-white or light gray at maturity, sometimes with yellowish or brownish tones. Often developing cracks in dry weather, slightly hygrophanous, turning greenish or blue where damaged. [1]

The gills are broadly adnate to adnexed, [1] close, starting out gray and turning black as the spores mature. The gill faces have a mottled appearance and the edges are white. The spore print is black. [1]

The stipe is 6–12 cm long by 2 to 4 mm thick, equal to slightly enlarged at the base, [1] pruinose, colored like the cap, staining somewhat blue where bruised.

The taste and odor are farinaceous.

Microscopic features

The spores are jet black, 12–15 x 7–11  μm, smooth, opaque, elliptical. With a germ pore.

Basidia 4 spored, pleurocystidia fusoid-ventricose, cheilocystidia 12 x 4 μm.

Similar species

It is similar to Panaeolus tropicalis . [1]

Distribution and habitat

Panaeolus cyanescens is a coprophilous (dung-inhabiting) species which occurs in both the Neotropics and Paleotropics. It has been found [3] in Vietnam, Africa (including South Africa, mauritius,Madagascar and Democratic Republic of the Congo), Australia, Belize, the Caribbean (Bermuda, Grenada, Barbados Jamaica, Trinidad, and Puerto Rico) Costa Rica, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Thailand, Japan, Mexico, Oceania (Fiji and Samoa), the Philippines, South America (Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador), South Korea, and the United States (California, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, Texas, Kentucky, Virginia, Georgia, and North Carolina).

Psychoactive properties

Laussmann & Sigrid Meier-Giebing (2010) reported the presence of psilocybin at ~2.5% and psilocin at ~1.194% from 25 samples seized by the German government, which makes modern commercially cultivated strains of this fungus the most potent hallucinogenic mushrooms ever described in published academic research. [4] Other researchers have documented a significant presence of serotonin and urea in this species as well as the possibly psychotropic indole alkaloid baeocystin. [5] [6]

See also

References

Footnotes

  1. It is also known under the common names of Blauender Düngerling, blue meanies, faleaitu (Samoan), falter-düngerling, Hawaiian copelandia, jambur, jamur, pulouaitu (Samoan), taepovi (Samoan), tenkech (Chol). [2]

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Arora, David (1986) [1979]. Mushrooms Demystified: A Comprehensive Guide to the Fleshy Fungi (2nd ed.). Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press. p. 358. ISBN   978-0-89815-170-1.
  2. Rätsch, Christian (25 April 2005). "Panaeolus cyanescens Berkeley et Broome". The Encyclopedia of psychoactive plants: Ethnopharmacology and its applications. Rochester, Vermont: Park Street Press. ISBN   978-0-89281-978-2 . Retrieved 6 September 2024.
  3. Gastón Guzmán; John W. Allen; Jochen Gartz (1998). "A worldwide geographical distribution of the neurotropic fungi, an analysis and discussion" (PDF). Annali del Museo Civico di Rovereto (14): 189–280. (on Fondazione Museo Civico di Rovereto)
  4. Laussmann, Tim; Meier-Giebing, Sigrid (2010-02-25). "Forensic analysis of hallucinogenic mushrooms and khat (Catha edulis Forsk) using cation-exchange liquid chromatography". Forensic Science International. 195 (1–3): 160–164. doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2009.12.013. PMID   20047807.
  5. Stijve, T.; Kuyper, Th. (October 1985). "Occurrence of Psilocybin in Various Higher Fungi from Several European Countries". Planta Medica. 51 (5): 385–387. doi:10.1055/s-2007-969526. PMID   17342589.
  6. Stijve, Tjakko. “Psilocin, psilocybin, serotonin and urea in Panaeolus cyanescens from various origin.” Persoonia 15 (1992): 117-121.

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