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Czech psilocybe (Psilocybe bohemica)

Czech psilocybe (Psilocybe bohemica) belongs to the varieties of bluing mushrooms of the psilocybe genus, the description of which was made in the Czech Republic. Actually, this was the rationale for creating the name, which is still used today.

The cap of the Czech psilocybe is 1.5 to 4 cm in diameter, is very brittle and has a bell-shaped shape in immature mushrooms. As the fruiting bodies ripen, the cap becomes more prostrate, opens, but at the same time a slight bulge is still preserved. The surface of the mushroom cap is almost always bare. Up to 1/3 of the height, the fruiting body of the fungus is characterized by ribbed, covered with mucus. The flesh of the mushroom is cream or light ocher in color, but when the surface is damaged, it acquires a bluish tone.

The leg of the Czech psilocybe is very thin, fibrous, has a cream color, in young mushrooms it is dense and without voids. As the fruiting bodies ripen, the stem becomes slightly wavy, tubular, from cream to bluish. Its length varies between 4-10 cm, and its thickness is only 1-2 mm. The taste of mushroom pulp is slightly astringent.

The lamellar hymenophore contains small spores, characterized by a grayish-violet color, an elliptical shape and a smooth surface to the touch. The size of fungal spores is 11-13 * 5-7 microns.

In some areas of the area, the described fungus is found quite often. Actively bears fruit only in autumn, from September to October. Mushroom pickers can find Czech psilocybe on rotting branches of trees belonging to deciduous and coniferous species. The fruit bodies of this fungus grow in mixed, coniferous and deciduous forests.

The Czech psilocybe mushroom belongs to the category of inedible and poisonous mushrooms, and its consumption by humans often leads to severe hallucinations.

The Czech psilocybe mushroom looks very similar to another poisonous mushroom, called the mysterious psilocybe (Psilocybe arcana). However, the latter is characterized by harder and denser fruiting bodies, a yellowish cap (sometimes with an olive tint), often located, attached to the stem and running down along it with plates.