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Hello to all lovers of mushrooms. Here is a photographic essay of the possible habitat
of Psilocybe cubensis/Psilocybe subcubensis and Copelandia cyanescens in the
village of Ban Tai, Koh Samui, on the North Central portion of Koh Samui Island. Although I have
visited this pasture land annually and sometimes twice a year and on numerous occasions on each trip
to Koh Samui, I have never found any specimens of either Psilocybe cubensis or Copelandia cyanescens.
However, this is not to say that they do not grow there. There is a restaurant known as the Raggae next
to these fields in Ban Tai which on occasion sells mushroom omelettes to toursits. The most common
mushroom to appear in this field has always been Panaeolus antillarum. In 2002, I, along with 4
other Exotic Foray participants, discovered a violet mushroom with an annulus present which we
tentiviely named, Psilocybe violacea due to the intense violet spore deposits observed on the cap.
Later, a paper was published by me, Dr. Gastón Guzmán of the Instituto de
Ecologia in Mexico and Dr. Prakitsin Sihanonth of Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. In this paper,
we identified this mushroom as Psilocybe pegleriana
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