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New African species confirms evolutionary origin of magic mushrooms

  • March 10, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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New African species confirms evolutionary origin of magic mushrooms
A long-standing debate about the evolutionary origin of the world's most widely cultivated "magic mushroom"—Psilocybe cubensis—may now have been settled by scientists from southern Africa and the United States.

Originally published at Phys.org

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