Mexicana – Magic Mushrooms

Mexicana Magic Mushrooms – Appearance

Mexicana looks exactly like something you imagine, when you hear the phrase buy magic mushrooms. Long, sometimes creepy slender stem with a bell-shaped cap on the top. Here is a more detailed description:

• Size: average, 3-5 inches (8-12 cm) long stem, 0,30-1 inch (1-2 cm) in cap diameter;

• Cap: cone-shaped or convex, sometimes with a raised area in the middle (umbonate) and start to resemble a bell, straw-colored to dark brown when matured;

• Stem: long, thin, hollow, reddish brown to dark brown, sometimes with deep blue spots on it and on the cap.

Another interesting thing about Mexicana is that it has the sclerotia (truffles) that helps spores to survive through harsh conditions and becomes a mushroom later. As all psilocybin containing mushrooms, Mexicana bruises when picked, dried, transported and even rarely when stocked. This is due to the psilocybin going blue when exposed to the air. It is a completely harmless reaction that doesn’t affect mushroom potency in any way.

Mexicana Magic Mushrooms – Origins

There is a whole book that can be written about this historically important magic mushroom. It connected many famous people, including Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Keith Richards and made psilocybin mushrooms popular in the west. We won’t describe it all, but here is a short version of what happened:

• There are various signs (e.g. stone carvings and statues) that prove Mexicana, and other psychedelic substances like plants, were used by Mayan civilization, Aztec people, Olmec, Zapotec and, finally, Mazatec starting from 3000 BC or even earlier for rituals, religious ceremonies and sacrifices;

• Maria Sabina, a famous Mazatec healer, held mushroom ceremonies in the village of Huautla de Jiménez and was the first woman who gave psychedelic knowledge to the west when she met with Robert Gordan Wasson in 1953;

• Robert Gordan Wasson and his wife collected the samples of Psilocybe mexicana, shared them with the French mycologist Roger Heim, who has grown magic mushrooms in the lab and sent received lab samples to the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann, who was the first to extract Psilocin and Psilocybin and 20 years later he was the first to synthesize LSD.

Mexicana strain remains the one and only magic mushroom whose story is more or less clear with some proven facts. No one can deny the huge impact this tiny mushroom had on the human’s history.