New edible mushroom discovered in Mexico

Hey there, shroomers 🍄

Happy Friday! Here’s what we found while foraging ‘round the mushroom world this week…

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Caprese salads have always been the way to my heart. Mushroom Caprese toasts? Even more so!

Lauren May’s imaginative mushroom creations are a treat. Check out her page here @mustloveherbs — especially that adorable toadstool chocolate cake.

Go gourmet 🍳

Mushroom discovery 🔎 Mycologists have identified a new edible mushroom species, Agaricus cervinoculus, in the forests of Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.

Prized mushrooms lost 😔 Wildfires have destroyed one-sixth of the matsutake crop in a Tibetan-populated area of China’s Sichuan province.

A Texas favorite 💜 Wood blewits (Collybia nuda) are edible, lavender-gilled mushrooms that are said to smell like lilacs, aniseed, or even orange juice.

Welcome to the shroom boom 💰 Morel prices are rising in parts of the U.S., with some shroomers in Ohio reporting record prices of $75 per pound.

Psychedelic news 😵

PsyPal 🌍The EU has funded its first clinical research project into psychedelic-assisted mental health treatments, spending €6.5 million to launch “PsyPal.”

Small steps, big effects 🌞 A California Senate committee approved a bill to allow psychedelic service centers, walking back a previously vetoed proposal that tried to legalize low-level psilocybin possession.

Shroom stocks 📈 Biopharmaceutical company Cybin Inc. received a U.S. patent for compositions created through its psilocybin analog program, CYB003, which aims to treat Major Depressive Disorder.

Research roundup 🔬

A study in safety 👍Researchers examined the safety profile of psilocybin use and found adverse effects to be minimal. Only 0.2% of the 9,233 participants sought emergency medical treatment, and the most reported reasons for these events were poor mindset, poor setting, and mixing substances.

Space farming 👨‍🚀Florida Atlantic University and Montana’s Garden City Fungi just sent mycelium into the stratosphere — for the second time — to study the viability of using fungi as a carbon dioxide source for space-grown plants.

Shocking ⚡Fungi could potentially revolutionize energy storage by replacing the fossil-fuel-derived carbon filaments in supercapacitors.

Rare meets rare 🍄 A critically endangered truffle (Chamonixia caespitosa) was found in a Scottish spruce forest. But as part of a rewilding project to restore the region’s native Atlantic oak woods, the non-native spruce forest — and the truffles currently living there — will soon be removed. (Field trip, anyone?)

Across the shroomer-verse 🌟

Mushroom health benefits 🧠 Wondering where to start with functional and gourmet mushrooms? Here’s the full rundown of our top nutritious edibles.

Remember: set and setting ⌚ How long does a mushroom trip last? And what are the different phases? Get the full deets in our guide for new shroomers!