Psilocybin Mushrooms: Basic Info

The different varieties of psychoactive mushrooms, also known as magic mushrooms, which contain psychoactive alkaloids such as psilocin, psilocybin and baeocystin, belong to the families Strophariaceae and Hymenogastraceae of basidiomycete mushrooms, of the Agaricales order. The most common and well-known genera that produce species that contain these alkaloids are Psilocibe and Panaeolus.