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Description

Properties

The fruiting bodies if Psilocybe serbica grow on decaying wood & on wood chips used in horticulture. The mushroom contains the compound psilocybin. It is closely related to Psilocybe cyanescens, although the latter has a strong floury odor and taste and does not have translucent streaks when wet.

Psilocybe serbica, clearly hallucinogenic, is also one of the problematic species in terms of its botanical classification.

Psilocybe serbica has a hallucinogenic effect! The psilocybin content range from 0.11% to 1.34% dry weight. Baeocystin and psilocybin concentrations were highest in mushroom caps.
I highly warn against foraging this mushroom, identifying it is only possible with certainty under the microscope.

1. Growing

Growing Procedure

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Growing Characteristics

 

Natural Habitat

Summer to fall

Deciduous forests, spruce forests, forest meadows, rare in Western and Central Europe, from September to December.

Psilocybe serbica grows mainly in clumps, on well-decomposed conifers and deciduous trees, and together with Urtica spp. or rubus spp. on twigs, compost, plant debris, in woods, especially in moist places along streams, forest paths, and roadsides. It has not been reported to be synanthropic.

Preferred substrates are hardwood mulch made from oak, eucalyptus, Douglas fir, and alder. Fruiting occurs in cool weather, generally late September through January. The species can be easily grown on agar, grain seed, and cellulosic material, including wood chips and sawdust.

2. Identification

Cap

-1-2 (3) cm
-grayish brown, light brown
-hygrophanous
-sometimes slightly ridged often darker brown
-hemispherical
-possibly slightly humped
-never upturned
-bluish when injured

Stipe

-light brownish
-white-fibrous-floccose
-darker brownish to base
-very long
-base with mycelium white-felted

Hyphae

Hymenium

-gray, gray-brown, dark brown
-with intermediate lamellae

Spores

3-4 x 9-11 µm
-blackish brown

Danger of confusion

PSILOCYBE CYANESCENS, PANAEOLUS CYANESCENS, PSILOCYBE SEMILANCEATA, PROTOSTROPHARIA SEMIGLOBATA, PANAEOLUS PAPILIONACEUS, PANAEOLUS GUTTULATUS, PANAEOLUS FIMICOLA

Veil

-dark brow
-drooping
-grooved

© Luca Pasquali (luca)

3. Consuming

Dosis

There is an urgent warning against food experiments with Psilocybe serbica. Collecting, possessing and selling drug mushrooms is illegal in many countries around the world.

Depending on the particular strain, growth method, and age at harvest, psilocybe mushrooms can come in rather different potencies. It is recommended to weigh the actual mushrooms, better then counting them. 10% of the mushrooms mass is left, when dried. Take a look at Properties, to find out how potent they are.

Effect

Due to the presumed main ingredient, psilocybin, the same effect can be expected as with other types of well-known hallucinogenic mushrooms. At this point, it is convenient to refer to the description of the effects of Psilocybe cumbensis.

Duration:

5-6 hours

Smell

-neutral

-musty

Taste

-mild

Flesh

-brownish

-bluish

Composition

It is the hallucinogenic tryptamine contained in this type of mushroom called psilocybin.

4. Data

other names

Psilocybe bohemica, Böhmischer Kahlkopf,Psilocybe serbica f. sternberkiana (Borov.) Borov., Oborník & Noordel, Psilocybe bohemica Sebek 1983, Serbischer Kahlkopf

Kingdom Fungi
Division Basidiomycota
Class Agaricomycetes
Order Agaricales
Family Hymenogastraceae
Genus Psilocybe
Species P. serbica
Ecology saprotrophic