Inocybe aeruginascens
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Inocybe aeruginascens is a member of the genus Inocybe which is widely distributed in Europe. This mushroom species was first documented by J. Ferencz in Osca, Hungary on June 15, 1965.
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[edit] Description
Inocybe aeruginascens is a small mycorrhizal mushroom with a conic to convex cap which becomes plane in age and is often fibrillose near the margin. It is usually less than 5cm across, has a slightly darker blunt umbo and an in incurved margin when young. The cap color varies from buff to light yellow brown, usually with greenish stains which dissapear when the mushroom dries. The gills are adnate to nearly free, numerous, colored pale brown, greyish brown, or tobacco brown. The fruiting body has greenish tones and bruises blue where damaged. The spores are smooth and ellipsoid, measuring 6-9.5 x 4.5 microns and forming a clay brown spore print. The stem is 2-7 cm long, 3 to 8 mm thick, and is equal width for the whole length, sometimes with some swelling at the base. It is solid, pale grey, becoming bluish green from the bottom up. The stem is fiberous and appears to be covered with fine powder near the top. It has a partial veil which often dissapears in age.
[edit] Distribution and habitat
Widely distributed across the temperate regions of the world. Reported from central Europe and western North America.
This mushroom grows in moist sandy soils in a mycorrhizal relationship with poplar, linden, oak and willow trees.
[edit] Edibility
Contains psilocybin, baeocystin and a newly discovered Indole which Gartz named aeruginascine. (N, N, N-trimethyl-4-phosphoryloxytryptamine) This mushroom was the cause of several unintentional intoxications in Europe in the 1980s and was reported as being very euphoric in its actions and effects.
Most experts believe the euphoria is due to the aeruginascine, [1] which is closely related to the frog skin toxin bufotenidine, and has been found exclusively in Inocybe aeruginascens so far. Aeruginascine is a trimethylammonium analogue of psilocybin.
[edit] References
- Inocybe aeruginascens Babos by Jochen Gartz [1]
- Aeruginascin, a Trimethylammonium Analogue of Psilocybin from the Hallucinogenic Mushroom Inocybe aeruginascens [2]
- Extraction and analysis of indole derivatives from fungal biomass [3]
- Mushroom John - Inocybe aeruginascens [4]
- New Aspects of the Occurrence, Chemistry, and Cultivation of European Hallucinogen Mushrooms [5]
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