Psilocybe bohemica

Description
Mushroom Identification
Psilocybe bohemica Strain Effects

Description

Psilocybe bohemica, is a psilocybin mushroom of the Agaricales family, having psilocybin, psilocin, and low amounts of baeocystin as main active compounds. This species is closely related to Psilocybe cyanescens, although the latter has a strong farinaceous odor and taste and is not translucent-striate when moist. Its cap can range from 1cm to 4cm across. It’s conical at first but as it ages, P.bohemica’s cap starts to become more convex or campanulate – in simpler words, bell-shaped. Later on, it may become incurved then more plane. The cap is buff-brown to orange-brown.

Common names: Little Brown Mushroom.

Mushroom Identification

Cap

1-5 cm in diameter and obtusely conical, later becoming campanulate or convex. It expands to broadly convex or plane in age and is incurved at first then plane or decurved with age. The cap is buff-brown to dingy orangish-brown and pale ochraceous when dry. It is smooth, hygrophanous, and slightly translucent-striate when moist but not viscid and without a separable gelatinous pellicle.
Flesh

The flesh is whitish to cream-colored, bruising blue when injured.
Spores

Purple-brown, ellipsoid, slightly flattened, and thick-walled, with a distinct germ pore. It is 10–12.5 × 6–7.5 µm.
Gills

The gills are adnate to adnexed and close, often distinctly subdecurrent. They are initially light brown, becoming dark brown with age with a purple tint, the edges remaining paler.
Stipe

The stipe is 4.5-8(10) cm by 2–10 mm. It has an equal structure, slightly enlarging at the base. It is whitish with a silky gloss and glabrous, or with some whitish remnants of the fibrillose veil.
Odor and Taste

Has no distinctive smell or taste.
Habitat

Psilocybe bohemica is found growing singly or in groups, on well decayed deciduous and coniferous wood, on twigs, compost, plant residue, in gardens, parks, on roadsides, in rich soil.