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Psilocybe weilii is a psilocybin mushroom found only in northern Georgia in the United States. It is named after Andrew Weil,[1] the famous integrative medicine physician.
The mushroom prefers red clay soil and is often found near pine growing in bermuda grass or fescue, often in urban lawns. Its primary fruiting season lasts from September through mid-November, however there is often a smaller fruiting in spring and the mushroom will fruit any time conditions are favorable, except during times close to a hard frost.
[edit] Description
- Cap: 2 - 6 cm, campanulate to conic, hygrophanous, translucent-striate at the margin, walnut brown to chestnut brown fading to buff as it dries. The margin is incurved when young and scalloped in age. Flesh white, bruising blue where damaged.
- Gills: Close, cream colored when young and becoming dark purple brown as the spores mature.
- Spores: Dark violet brown, 6 x 5 micrometres.
- Stipe: White to light brown, 30 to 70 mm long and up to 8 mm thick. Equal to slightly enlarged at the base. Bruising blue where damaged.
- Taste: Farinaceous.
- Odor: Farinaceous.
- Microscopic features:
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[edit] References
- ^ Andrew Weil biographic note mentioning the naming of Psilocybe weilii, at the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. Page retrieved 9 July 2006.
