10ml Liquid Culture Syringe As for penis envy mushrooms, famed ethnobotanist and psychedelic advocate Terence McKenna is generally credited with their discovery, though the details of that discovery remain shrouded in hearsay.
Variety Details
Habitat: Bovine, Equine Dung and Enriched Soils
Climate: Subtropical
Cap: 25-100 mm in diameter, convex to broadly convex to plane at maturity. Orange/burnt orange 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: 120-200+ mm in length. 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
Origin Info:
In the early 1970s, McKenna stumbled upon a massive, healthy patch of psychedelic mushrooms deep within the Amazon rainforest with the help of several local guides. Then, he smuggled his findings undetected back to the US by taking spore prints of the culture and sandwiching them between microscopy slides labeled with a different genus name.
One such spore print he gave to his colleague Steven H. Pollock, a medical doctor and fellow believer in the potential of psychedelic plant medicines. Over several years, Pollock refined this culture by selectively fruiting mushrooms from generation to generation until he found one mutation, with an exceptionally thick stem and pallid cap, that could reliably propagate its recessive genetic characteristics. Thus, the penis envy mushroom strain was born.
