Psilocybe cubensis

[growie]

Psilocybe cubensis is a species of psychedelic mushroom whose principal active compounds are psilocybin and psilocin. Commonly called Boomers or Gold Caps, it belongs to the Strophariaceae family of fungi and was previously known as Stropharia cubensis.

"Pileus: 2–8 cm, Conic to convex, becoming broadly convex to plane in age, may retain a slight umbo, margin even, reddish-cinnamon brown when young becoming golden brown in age, viscid when moist, hygrophanous, glabrous, sometimes with white universal veil remnants decorating the cap, more or less smooth. Flesh whitish, bruising blue in age or where injured.
Gills: Adnate to adnexed to sometimes seceding attachment, close, narrow to slightly wider towards the center, at first pallid to gray, becoming dark purplish to blackish in age, somewhat mottled, edges remaining whitish.
Spore Print: Blackish violet.
Stipe: 4–15 cm long, .5–1.5 cm thick, white to yellowish in age, hollow or somewhat stuffed, the well developed veil leaves a persistent white membranous annulus whose surface usually becomes concolorous with the gills because of falling spores, bruising blue or bluish-green when injured.
Taste: Farinaceous
Odor: Farinaceous
Microscopic features: Spores 11.5–17 x 8–11 µm, subellipsoid, basidia 4-spored but sometimes 2- or 3-, pleurocystidia and cheilocystidia present.
It is in the section Cubensae, other mushrooms of this section include Psilocybe subcubensis"

[lysander.na]

What was the effect of the mushees and how where they uses? and if they were used like snake venom, i mean in arrows and such? or other way?

[Anam]

as these are the species and types of the mushrooms whose main active working compounds and parts are psilocybin and an other one is psilocin also. These are from the family of the fungi and are also called in the previous days Stropharia cubensis.

[jonela]

What was the effect of the mushees and how where they uses? and if they were used like snake venom, i mean in arrows and such? or other way?

The effects start within an hour from ingestion and comprise visual distortions, including walls that seem to breathe, a vivid enhancement of colors and the animation of organic shapes. These hallucinations can last 4 - 10 hours.
Who knows how these mushrooms affect animals? People use it to get so called visions.