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Originally Posted by warriorsoul  |
Warrior Soul,
Regarding the field guid eyou listed form Wikipedia, Psilocybe quebecensis is not the most northern known psilocybian mushroom. It was first collected and written about my colleague, Gyorgy-Mikos Ola'h and French mycologist Roger Heim in 1966 when they wrote the paper on the taxonomy of the species. In 1973, Ola'h wrote the paper, "The Fine structure of Psilocybe quebecensis. Between 1966 and 1973, Ola'h reported finding it in the same spot every year, and in several similar habitats, all in the Jacques Catier River Valley area of norther Quebec. At the time, they described it as the only species of the far northern region of the North American Continent. However, at that time, Ola'h was not aware that Psilocybe semilanceata was also north and further than the location of P. quebecensis. You might want to change the page for that comment in you Wikipedia book as I do not know how to add or remove data from those pages.
No one outside of Ola'h and Heim have found this species since. I believe that one collection of a few specimens was found in Montreal at Mount Royal Park on time.
P. semilanceata grows much farther north in pasturelands throughout north western Quebec Province as far as Riv du lu in and farther north in Quebec, including way north of Quebec city in the province of Quebec
John have a shroomy day.
There are some minor errors in species data of several in the guide.