B+ Spore Print

B+ Cubensis - Spore Print on Aluminum Foil

Strain Origin: The origins of the B+ variety have become a thing of legend. B+ is a classicvariety, one of the most popular commercial cubensis variants in history. It has been heavily domesticated over decades of generational manipulation.

Nobody knows where the first Psilocybe cubensis spores which became “B+” were from.

Habitat: Bovine, Equine Dung and Enriched Soils

Climate: Subtropical

Cap: 25-75 mm in diameter, hemispheric to convex expanding to broadly convex to nearly plane with age. Dark red maturing to golden brown. Surface viscid with apparent gelatinous layer when very wet, soon smooth from drying. Fine fibrillose veil remnants when young that soon disappear. Flesh white soon bruises bluish green.

Stem: 150-200+ mm in length. Typically equal, sometimes slightly enlarged at base, sometimes contorted. Yellowish to buff with a reflective sheen, bruising bluish, hollow. Partial veil membranous leaving a persistent membranous annulus that is well dusted with purplish brown spores even before tearing away from the cap.

Gills: Attachment adnate to adnexed. Grayish coloration in young fruit bodies becoming nearly black in maturity.

Spores: Dark purplish brown, subellipsoid, 13 by 8 micrometres on 4-spored basidia

Formerly misrepresented as Psilocybe azurescens.