blue meanies mushroom are one of the strongest psilocybin containing mushrooms. they have an unassuming stature and they produce small medium-sized brown to white mushrooms. Thry are easy for amateur enthusiasts to overlook when foraging but don’t be mistaken these dark blue mushrooms when picked can pack a punch. Mushrooms from the genus paneolis are super common, they grow globally in tropical and temperate environments. paniolous cyanescence is a tropical and subtropical grassland species which is often found in dung just like another familiar mushroom. we know if you’re not aware of blue meanies as mentioned
before you could easily miss a patch of
them while foraging for the more popular
philosophy cubensis which would be a big
bummer because you’re probably looking
for
psilocybin-containing mushrooms and as
mentioned these are strong ones blue
meanies are believed to contain two to
three times the psilocybin found in
cubensus
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let’s talk about identifying blue
meanies because that’s what you probably
want to know right how do i find these
things
so in the field blue meanies tend to be
light gray or off-white at maturity and
when they’re young the caps are light
brown and then fade to off-white or
light gray occasionally they have
yellowish or brownish tones the caps are
approximately 0.5 to 2 centimeters in
diameter at first they’re hemispheric
and they expand to bell-shaped or convex
the cat margin is in curved when young
the caps are slightly hygrophinous which
means that they lose their color as they
dry out and they often develop cracks in
dry weather the stem or stipe tends to
be seven to twelve centimeters long and
two to three millimeters thick and the
width is equal along the length and
slightly enlarged at the base the stem
is colored like the cap and covered in a
fine white powder so these mushrooms
have a flower-like smell and taste and
like with other psilocybin-containing
fungi when they’re damaged the mushrooms
bruise greenish or blue and that can
often be seen on the cap or the stem
with bloominess
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so where do blue meetings grow as
mentioned paneolis cyanescence is a
tropical and subtropical species so in
tropical regions the mushrooms grow year
round
in the subtropics they grow from late
spring to autumn depending on the rain
and humidity and they’re known to occur
in temperate zones during wet and humid
parts of the summer
blue meanies are mostly found growing on
cattle or horse dung in pastures and
fields
and they grow singly and they also grow
in groups they appear in spring or
during rainy seasons their range in the
united states is from florida along the
gulf coast where it fruits virtually
around unquote cow pies bloomings were
actually thought to have been introduced
to other countries by the movement of
livestock so it’s assumed that paniolo
cyan essence was introduced to the
islands of hawaii during the early 1800s
when cattle were imported there from the
philippines and now they occur
throughout the tropical and subtropical
regions of the northern and southern
hemispheres in addition blue meanies are
commonly found in mexico
south america colombia bolivia brazil
and peru eastern australia india bali
southeast asia south africa france and
italy so blue meanies grow in much of
the world
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paniolis cyanescence comes from the
genus
paniolis
and mushrooms belonging to this
widespread genus are generally small and
have black spores and often grow on dung
but not all panelists contain psilocybin
and we’ll get to this in a little bit
the paniolis genus contains 13 species
that produce psilocybin including
paneolis cyanescence blue meanies what
we’re talking about and paniolis
synsitulis paniolis mushrooms are called
modal gills
due to the irregular spots or patches of
color on their gills but there’s
something else worth noting about this
particular species
paniolo’s cyan essence is a mushroom
with many names so many names in fact
that knowing what to call this
particular species can be very confusing
so to start with the basics the name
paniolis in greek means all variegated
and it’s describing the mushroom’s
spotted texture the species name
cyanescence is derived from cyaneus
meaning blue for the color the flesh
becomes when bruising the rumor has it
that the common name blue means actually
came from the beatles psychedelic film
yellow submarine
we all live in a yellow submarine okay
sorry i couldn’t help myself but
according to some other mycologists the
common name was coined in australia and
apart from gold tops blue meanies is one
of the more commonly used descriptions
of psilocybin-containing mushrooms to
make this all more confusing a strain of
philosophy cubensis
a different species of psychedelic
mushrooms is also called blue meanies
and the confusion does not stop there so
taxonomy enthusiasts the people who
get very geeky about categorizing all
these various strains and varieties and
cultivars and species
may recognize this mushroom’s previous
name now a synonym
copelandia cyanescence and if things
weren’t already convoluted enough
they are already convoluted enough
tanioli’s cyan essence is also often
confused with another psychedelic
mushroom
silocibi cyanescence
both mushrooms are abbreviated the same
way
p
cyanescence which is very common you
abbreviate the first letter of the genus
which precedes the name of the species p
philosophy
paniolis so it’s worth noting though
that even though these two species of
mushrooms are abbreviated the same way
they are very different the first one is
a dung lover and the other one is a wood
lover they also have comparable levels
of psilocybin which is the compound
people typically attribute to what makes
you trip
but finally this mushroom is called
pancion after its new latin name
so
all of this began early on for this
mushroom all the confusion uh pantolysis
cyanescence or blue meanies were first
described in sri lanka as
agaricus cyanescence in
1871.
a few years later it was described by
another mycology expert from the
philippines who named it
copelandia papillonacia
it was then named copalandia cyanescence
by another mycologist in 1951
and the species was named paniolescence
cyanescence what we’re referring to it
as in 1887
which is now its official
formal name the genus copelandia was
deprecated meaning that it’s no longer
valid panelist cyanescence is thought to
have originated in asia and the mushroom
belongs to the family copra nasier the
same family is the common mushroom
copronus comatis which you might know
by the common name
lawyer’s wig
now let’s talk about the potency of blue
meanies as mentioned they’re known to be
pretty strong the inventor of lsd
chemist albert hoffman analyzed blue
meanies then known as copelandia
cyanescence in the early 1960s after
reports of quote intoxications caused by
dung-loving fungi from southern france
and hoffman found celosin in higher
concentrations after analyzing the
fruiting bodies yet there were only
slight quantities of psilocybin although
the origins of these samples were
mysterious to albert hoffman their true
origins eventually came to light they
were growing from the dung of horses
bought from indonesia
to take part in a horse race as
mentioned above this species is quite
potent the effects of blue meaning
mushrooms may come on quickly due to
their higher levels of salocin than
psilocybin blue meanies are often
reported to be two to three times the
strength of silas b cubensus yet there’s
very little published data to support
these claims and it’s important to
remind everybody that we really don’t
have a lot of rigorous scientific
data generally speaking looking at the
potency of different varieties of
psychedelic mushrooms so arrowwood
reports that these mushrooms have a
combined psilocybin and cellosim content
of between 0.5 to 2.95 percent dry
weight in 1992 there was a mycology
expert who said that their potency was
variable from 0.17 to 0.95 percent
salosine and 0.16 to 0.19 percent
psilocybin philosophy cubensis by
comparison
has been reported to have concentrations
of salocin and psilocybin between 0.14
to 0.42 percent and 0.37 to 1.3 percent
dry weight respectively
blue meanie look-alikes we always got to
talk about this because people are you
know really interested in foraging and
it’s important that you know what you’re
looking out for and what the risks are
here when foraging for any species of
mushrooms it’s essential to know
lookalike species especially because
sometimes they can be fatal i’m not
exaggerating so a lookalike species is a
mushroom species that may be confused
with your quote target species there are
a lot of species that are look-alike
species with blue meanies and we won’t
get into all of them now because there’s
just too many but we will say that a
simple way to tell this species apart
from others while not definitive is the
bluing reaction of the psilocybin and
paniolous cyanescence also
have dark purple to black spores so
those are things that you might want to
look out for so something else to look
out for when you’re foraging for blue
meanies is where
the mushrooms that you found are growing
as mentioned before blue meanies grow on
dung typically on horse manure cow
patties and so if you’re finding a
mushroom that looks like a blue meanie
but it’s growing on wood chips for
example it’s not a blue beanie
additionally something to look out for
is you know are you even in a part of
the world where blue meetings are said
to grow or are you in a part of the
world at a time of year when blue
meetings are said to grow these are all
just kind of basic foraging 101
that you know if it’s if you’re in a
region where blue means aren’t growing
and you see something that looks like a
blue meanie it’s probably not a blue
meanie generally speaking we’ll say that
when foraging it’s great to have a field
guide for your area and to have a couple
forums handy on your phone so shreemery
has the mushrooms hunting and
identification subforum which is amazing
there’s also an app called inaturalist
which is handy and can help you provide
identification for photos you can take a
photo of the mushroom and upload it
there’s facebook forums as well last but
not least we just we have to
you know give a little reminder about
foraging etiquette which is please do
not forage
on someone’s land without their
permission if you’re interested in more
information on bluminis or other strains
of psychedelic mushrooms you want to
know how to grow mushrooms you want to
know how to take mushrooms we have tons
of information available for free on our
website we also have courses and
webinars that you can sign up for and
you can be supported in real time by our
team of amazing mycologists so to check
any of that out
we’re at doubleblindmag.com
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Informative.