Oregon is…
On a balmy… morning, a massive flush of psilocybe mushrooms popped up in a Portland, Oregon city park. This particularly gregarious bloom of Psilocybe ovoideocystidiata, or “ovoids,” stretched over a large mulched area, attracting casual pickers who filled their tote bags to the brim… Fungal evolution experts like Slot stress that many hypotheses regarding psilocybin’s origins skew towards biases of respective scientific fields.
“[Psilocybe fungi] actually thrive in areas where human civilization exists. The classic example is landscaping and city mulch. When we chip up a bunch of dead trees and lay it down, this is just like a feeding frenzy for them… You can’t walk very far in the right season without encountering one of these… within the United States, the Pacific Northwest is a hotspot for mushrooms and psilocybin culture,” Jacobs said… cyanescens… azurescens… [cubensis]…
Original Article (OPB):
Oregon is at the forefront of psilocybin’s future, but the host fungi’s past is still mysterious
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