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The Shroomverse alien among windswept dunes and beach grass on the Oregon coast in late autumn.

SPECIES ATLAS · PSILOCYBE

Psilocybe azurescens

Named by Stamets & Gartz, 1995

Psilocybin record: reported (one or older reports)

Full article: Psilocybe Azurescens: Species Record, Limits

A history of a name and a chemistry record, not an identification guide. No name, picture or description can show that a wild mushroom is safe, and poisonous mushrooms are mistaken for magic mushrooms. If someone may have eaten a wild mushroom, call a poison centre without waiting for symptoms: 1-844-POISON-X in most of Canada, 1-800-463-5060 in Quebec. Call 911 if they’re unconscious, not breathing or having a seizure.

How it was named.

Paul Stamets collected the holotype in Oregon on 21 November 1993, and Stamets and Gartz published the name in 1995 in Integration: Journal for Mind Moving Plants and Culture 6: 21. The holotype is at the University of Washington herbarium (WTU). Species Fungorum lists no synonyms.

Named
Stamets & Gartz, 1995
Type specimen
Oregon (Species Fungorum: holotype WTU, Stamets, 21 Nov. 1993) (Species Fungorum record 446057; pin = Wikidata coordinates for Oregon (Q824))
Name record
Species Fungorum
The pin marks the type locality at the level of detail the record gives: one historical collection, not a range or a place to look. Land outlines: Natural Earth.

The psilocybin record.

Every analysis we could verify, oldest first, including results that found nothing. No amounts are given: they vary between collections and this is not a potency guide.

  1. 2026

    Confirmed Psilocybin and psilocin quantified in indoor-cultivated material whose identity was checked by DNA testing

    Method: HPTLC. Windsor et al. 2026, J. AOAC Int. 109: 37-50

What the record doesn’t show: The only analysis we could open is of cultivated material, and the 1995 description, which is said to include chemistry, was not available to us.

Records on file.

GBIF, the global biodiversity database, held 615 occurrence records under this name, 17 of them from Canada, when we checked on October 25, 2026. GBIF held 17 Canadian records on 25 October 2026, 14 from British Columbia (12 preserved specimens overall). Records include unverified observations and old misidentifications, so counts show where people have recorded the name, not where it grows.

See the name on GBIF

Sources

Compiled from the sources above; last checked .

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