The Purple Mystics cubensis originates from East Plant City Florida. This the most “wild” strain we currently have. They are 2nd generation spores and TheHawksEye.com (now mushrooms.com) was the first vendor to offer these spores. Blackd0voe was kind enough to provide us with spores and pictures from this cubensis that grows on cow pastures over a 1000 acre area. Although he tells us there is a housing development going on there now, there is still plenty of acres of cow pastures with many different kinds of mushrooms growing wild there. Blackd0voe tells us he has been picking these cubensis from this field for many years and he calls them “purple mystics” since he finds them with purple rings around the caps a lot. What causes the purple rings you ask? The purplish bluish color in psilocybin mushrooms is a bruising reaction when psilocybe mushrooms are handled roughly or cut. It’s a reaction to the oxygen. How ever these mushrooms are not cut or bruised so in theory it could be from a higher concentration of psilocybin. The land is wild (except for recent development) and plenty organic grass for the cows to eat, which means more tryptamine, which means higher concentrations of psilocybin. Grass is high in tryptamine which psilocybe mushrooms convert to psilocybin. In theory it could be the dung is rich in tryptamine causing these mushrooms to produce higher levels of psilocybin. Hopefully the purple ring genetics passes on that trait to future generations. Blackd0voe swears these are higher potency then all other cubes he has tried. This author has personally not had a chance to go to Florida and interview the cows from this field to see what they think

Spore Taxonomy
Cubensis Spore Taxonomy	Microscopic Features: Spores dark purplish brown to violet brown in deposit, subellipsoid, 11.5-17 by 8-11 u. Basidia 2- or 3-spores, but usually 4-spored. Pleurocystidia nearly pear shaped, sometimes mucronate, 18-30 by 6-13 u. Cheilocystidia fusoid-ventricose with an obtuse or subcapitate apex, sometimes sublageni form, 17-32 by 6-10 , with the narrow necks 3-5 u broad. One rare cubensis strains named Columbia “rust spore” actually drops almost reddish rust colored spores but this strain is very unique! We do carry spores of that strain from time to time.

Spore Taxonomy

Cubensis Spore Taxonomy

Microscopic Features: Spores dark purplish brown to violet brown in deposit, subellipsoid, 11.5-17 by 8-11 u. Basidia 2- or 3-spores, but usually 4-spored. Pleurocystidia nearly pear shaped, sometimes mucronate, 18-30 by 6-13 u. Cheilocystidia fusoid-ventricose with an obtuse or subcapitate apex, sometimes sublageni form, 17-32 by 6-10 , with the narrow necks 3-5 u broad. One rare cubensis strains named Columbia “rust spore” actually drops almost reddish rust colored spores but this strain is very unique! We do carry spores of that strain from time to time.