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MycoTrue(TM) - DNA verified research material as liquid isolate in aqueous solution. Provided in 10ml glass serum vial with injectable lid.
Store refrigerated, guaranteed 6 months after receipt of order. Designed for accredited laboratories.
Each order provided with one sterility packaged syringe filter, syringe, and needle. See instructions and video below
P. niveotropicalis
Psilocybe niveotropicalis is a recently described, wood-loving, bluing hallucinogenic mushroom discovered in South Florida in 2019. It's taxonomically placed near other tropical Psilocybe species, distinguished by its lighter cap coloration, unique spore morphology, and significant alkaloid content.
Description
Cap: 20–45 mm diameter; convex to broadly umbonate, sometimes sharply umbonate in youth; Hygrophanous, smooth, oily sheen. Fresh colors range pale white to yellowish, drying to brownish or gray with a golden/orange umbo; Translucent striations at the margin reveal gill outlines when moist.
Gills: Adnexed (narrowly attached), start pale rusty, maturing to dark purple-brown with lighter edges.
Stipe (Stem): 15–55 mm long × 2–8 mm thick, slender, cylindric; whitish to sorrel-brown, bruises blue when handled. Prominent persistent annulus (ring) that often blues with age. Base with white rhizomorphs, sometimes embedded in substrate like a taproot.
Spore Print: Dark purplish-brown.
Microscopic Features
Spores: (7.9) 8.9–9.4–10.2 (11.0) × (6.3) 7.0–7.7–8.4 (9.4) µm, Q = (1.0) 1.1–1.2–1.4 (1.5), N = 100 (measurements from a spore deposit of MO491260), rhomboid to subrhomboid in face view, ellipsoid in side view, thick-walled, wall 0.8-1.2 μm thick, yellowish brown, with a germ pore. Unusually high variability. Many show deep apical clefts or bifid shapes, a distinctive character uncommon in other Psilocybe.
Basidia: 21.6–30.2 × 6.1–10.2μm (holotype, N=34),4 or 2-spored, hyaline, thin-walled, cylindric-vesiculose to subclaviform, sterigmata up to 8.22 µm.
Pleurocystidia: 17.2–33.4 × 7.8–12.6 μm (holotype, N=33), hyaline, thin-walled, subventricose, fusoid-ventricose, occasionally with double apices, with a rounded to obtuse, rarely broadly mucronate, apex sometimes with a subgelatinous, refractive secretion/occlusion at the apex, scattered but more abundant near lamellar edge.
Cheilocystidia: 9.3–26.2 × 5.8–11.4 μm (holotype, N=80), hyaline, thin-walled, subventricose, fusoid-ventricose, sometimes subpyriform or subovate, with a rounded to obtuse, rarely broadly mucronate, apex, sometimes with a subgelatinous, refractive secretion/occlusion, typically in clusters in an extensive sterile band.
Ecology & Distribution
Habitat: Found in wood-chip mulch beds in irrigated, landscaped environments.
Location: Described from South Florida (Jupiter area); season February–September.
Insert needle through top of vial, into air space above the solution.
Inject an amount of air equal to the amount of solution you wish to draw.
Invert vial and release pressure on plunger to draw out solution
Turn upright and remove syringe from the vial.
Cap syringe.
* MycoTrue(TM) intended for microscopy and taxonomy purposes only. Images provided for informational and educational reference only and originate from cultivators and labs outside the US. Cultivation of this species is illegal in many countries including the United States. Please check your local regulations.
California, Idaho, Florida, and Georgia residents: Orders requesting Psilocybe Genera Spores shipped to California, Idaho, Florida, and Georgia will be refused, voided, or refunded. Possession of these mushroom spores may be illegal in CA, ID, FL, and GA without the proper permissions.
