7/7/2023 0 Comments Psilocybe spore printPsilocybe tampanensis fruit bodies and spore prints of cultivated specimens ![]() Guzmán classified P. tampanensis in his section Mexicanae, a grouping of related Psilocybe species characterized primarily by having spores with lengths greater than 8 micrometers. The type specimen is kept at the herbarium of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional in Mexico. Pollock later cloned the specimen and produced a pure culture, which remains widely distributed today. According to Paul Stamets, Pollock skipped a "boring taxonomic conference" near Tampa, Florida to go mushroom hunting, and found a single specimen growing in a sand dune, which he did not recognize. Pollock and Mexican mycologist and Psilocybe authority Gastón Guzmán in a 1978 Mycotaxon publication. The species was described scientifically by Steven H. In nature, sclerotia are produced by the fungus as a rare form of protection from wildfires and other natural disasters. The fruit bodies and sclerotia are consumed by some for recreational or entheogenic purposes. Psilocybe tampanensis forms psychoactive truffle-like sclerotia that are known and sold under the nickname "philosopher's stones". ![]() The fruit bodies ( mushrooms) produced by the fungus are yellowish-brown in color with convex to conic caps up to 2.4 cm (0.9 in) in diameter atop a thin stem up to 6 cm (2.4 in) long. The original Florida specimen was cloned, and descendants remain in wide circulation. Originally collected in the wild in a sandy meadow near Tampa, Florida, in 1977, the fungus would not be found in Florida again until 44 years later. Psilocybe tampanensis is a very rare psychedelic mushroom in the family Hymenogastraceae.
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