P. cubensis is known by many names around the globe, including magic mushrooms, shrooms or gold caps. The mushroom has ...

Over 42 million bases of the P. cubensis psychedelic mushroom genome were sequenced to fully cover all genes, as well as non-coding regions of the DNA. "We believe the timing is perfect for ...

A common ancestor of P. cubensis and P. ochraceocentrata could have evolved alongside large herbivores in East Africa as far back as 1.8 million years ago, the study suggests.

Broad ecological modelling for the study suggested P. cubensis could have been found in Africa, the Americas, Asia and Australasia between 2.55 million and 710,000 years ago.