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Originally Posted by flipp diggity  contrary to popular belief
psilocybe cyanescens also grows wild on the east coast 
Pennsylvania.
kinda like how new things like fungus or insects can be introduced through cargo
however there a many possible explanations |
Contrary to popular belief, Psilocybe cyanescens does not grow on the east coast.
However, two species, which macroscopically resemble Psilocybe cyanescens do grow on the East Coast of America all the way from The Eat coast to Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Southern Ohio.
One of those two is Psilocybe caerulipes. The photos of this species I am posting are of P. caerulipes form Cleveland, Ohio. It can be found fruiting along streams and riverbanks and in city gardens in public areas in bed boxes of wood chips and mulch. It is common in such habitats from South Carolina to Maine and southern Ontario, Canada, and west to Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan
It macroscopically resembles Psilocybe cyanecens, primarily in the fact that it has a pure white solid hollow stem which easily bruises blue when touched or damaged from human handling or from natural causes and because of its upturned caramel colored to straw-yellow in drying wavy cap which is a common identifying characteristic of the genus Psilocybe. Even Psilocybe cubensis has wavy caps in the strains.
Again, the problem of taking a published list of known species and list their distribution as being found in a specific location is that the published lists provided above provide published documentation of herbarium deposits for every mushrooms in that list. Thus that verifies that a specific mushroom listed for Pennsylvania is documented as from Pennsylvania.
However, when someone comes here and says well so and so species grows in my area, well without herbarium deposits to verify a claim by someone that such a mushroom indeed is found where one says it is, then anyone posting here that something is from there area, is not a valid report and should not be included in the above lists.
Again, this is like, over the years, I have shown many people photographs of Galerina autumnalis, a very deadly toxic mushroom which kills. It also, at times, resembles Psilocybe cyanescens in its shape and color.
And in showing people that mushroom photograph of the deadly Galerina, I am amazed at how many people have told me they ate that mushroom and had a great time on it.
All of that tells me is that those people did not eat the mushroom in my photograph and that tells me I would not want to eat any mushrooms they pick because they do not know what they were talking about.
Many people Identify magic shrooms form the bluing but there are definite differences in various specie as and may of them look alike because they are in the same family. Psilocybe. A genus with over 130 magic species world wide and many of them macroscopically resemble one another.
The first two images are from Raver and show Psilocybe caerulipes found in Cleveland Ohio in a garden in a public place.
The third image is one of Psilocybe ovoideocystidiata, from Pennsylvania and Ohio.
mjshroomer