Oaxaca – Spore Syringe

This strain finds its origins in Huautla de Jímenez, a small village in the Oaxaca state of Mexico. This is the mushroom that Maria Sabina used for her veladas, when the Ps*locy*e caer*lescens season was finished. It carries with it a spiritual load unequaled in Ps*locy*e c*bens*s. Interestingly Ps*locy*e c*bens*s Huautla was not seen growing directly on dung.

Strain Origin: Oaxaca, Mexico

Cap: 25-50+ mm in diameter, convex to broadly convex to plane at maturity often with persistent acute umbo (nipple). Reddish cinnamon brown maturing to golden brown to light yellow with nearly white edges. Surface dry lacking remnants of universal veil on cap (spots). Flesh white soon bruising bluish green.

Stem: 150+ mm in length, yellowish. Flesh bruising bluish green where injured. Persistent membranous annulus (ring) from partial veil that becomes dusted with purple brown spores at maturity.

Gills: Attachment adnate to adnexed. Grayish coloration in young fruit bodies becoming nearly black in maturity.

Spores: Dark purplish brown, subellipsoid on 4-spored basidia

Habitat: Bovine, Equine Dung and Enriched Soils

Climate: Subtropical

This is not to be confused with Mazatapec Strain