These mushrooms are a particularly potent variety of Psilocybe cubensis, a species of magic ... take longer to mature and do not produce many spores, so they are difficult to find and cultivate.

Psilocybe cubensis varieties like Golden Teacher ... these traits become less reliable due to genetic drift and inconsistent ...

cubensis could have come from Africa before ... migrating out of Africa and into Eurasia alongside bovids. Mushroom spores transported on bovid hoofs or dropped in poo could then explain how ...