The poster child for psychedelic mushrooms is named after a country that doesn't use it

In 1906, a U.S. plant pathologist named Franklin Sumner Earle collected a small brown mushroom in Cuba and shipped it to the New York Botanical Garden. He called it Stropharia cubensis - later reclassified as Psilocybe cubensis - and never mentioned it again in any of his letters. - Read the rest

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