This photograph shows a naturalized magic mushroom (Psilocybe cubensis) growing in their ecological niche of cow manure in Queensland, Australia. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

One testing lab has been OK’d, Rose City Laboratories. And three manufacturers (growers) of the chosen mushroom, Psilocybe Cubensis, have been licensed and are growing it.

The most common so-called “magic mushrooms” are Psilocybe cubensis, which he says likely do not grow in the wild in North Carolina due to the climate.

Psychedelic mushrooms growing in southern Africa have been identified as a new species that is the closest relative of Psilocybe cubensis, the most well-known magic mushroom species. The discovery ...