Psilocybe Azurescens

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Psilocybe azurescens is a species of psychedelic mushroom whose main active compounds are psilocybin and psilocin. It is among the most potent of the tryptamine-bearing mushrooms, containing up to 1.8% psilocybin, 0.5% psilocin, and 0.4% baeocystin by dry weight, averaging to about 1.1% psilocybin and 0.15% psilocin. It belongs to the family Hymenogastraceae in the order Agaricales.Psilocybe azurescens

The cap (pileus) of Psilocybe azurescens is 30–100 mm in breadth, conic to raised, growing to comprehensively arched and in the long run leveling with age with an articulated, diligent broad umbo; surface smooth, viscous when damp, secured by a distinct gelatinous pellicle; chestnut to ochraceous earthy colored to caramel in shading, frequently getting hollowed with dim blue or pale blue dark zones, hygrophanous, blurring to light straw tone in drying, emphatically wounding blue when harmed; edge even, in some cases sporadic and dissolved at development, marginally incurved from the outset, soon decurved, straightening with development