Psilocybe cyanotic (Psilocybe cyanescens)
Systematics:
- Department: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Branch: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycete)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Hymenogastraceae (Hymenogasters)
- Genus: Psilocybe (Psilocybe)
- Species: Psilocybe cyanescens (Psilocybe blue)
Blue psilocybe – a hallucinogenic genus of fungi from the class Agaricomycetes, the Strophariaceae family, the genus Psilocybe.
External description
The fruit body of the psilocybe is bluish consists of a hat and legs. The diameter of the hat is from 2 to 4 cm, has a rounded shape, but mature mushrooms becomes open, with a wavy uneven edge. The color of the cap of the fungus described may be reddish or brownish, but more often – yellowish. Interestingly, the color of the fruit The body of the bluish psilocybe varies with the weather. For example, when it’s dry outside and it doesn’t rain, the color of the mushroom becomes light yellow, but with high humidity the surface of the fruiting body acquires a certain oiliness. If press on the pulp of the described fungus, then it acquires bluish-green hue, and sometimes along the edge of the fruiting body are noticeable specks of bluish color.
The hymenophore of the bluish psilocybe is represented by the lamellar type. The records are characterized by a rare arrangement, light, ocher brown. Mature mushrooms psilocybe bluish the plates become dark brown. Often they grow to surface of the fruiting body. Lamellar components hymenophores are tiny particles called spores. They characterized by a purplish brown color.
The pulp of the described fungus has a slight powdery smell, in color – white, can change the hue at the cut.
The leg of the mushroom has a length of 2.5-5 cm, and its diameter varies in within 0.5-0.8 cm. In young mushrooms, the leg has a whitish color, but when the fruiting bodies ripen, it gradually turns blue. On the surface of the described fungus bedspreads.
Mushroom season and habitat
Psilocybe bluish (Psilocybe cyanescens) bears fruit in autumn period, mainly in humid areas, on soils rich organic, on forest edges, roadsides, on pastures and wastelands. Their distinctive feature is leg splicing between themselves. This kind of mushroom grows on dead vegetation.
Edibility
A mushroom called the bluish Psilocybe belongs to the poisonous, when eaten, causes severe hallucinations, violates proper functioning of the auditory and visual organs.
