Brazilian Magic Mushrooms

Psilocybin mushrooms, often known as magic mushrooms, mushrooms, or shrooms, are a polyphyletic, informal collection of fungi that contain psilocybin, which when consumed transforms into psilocin. Copelandia, Gymnopilus, Inocybe, Panaeolus, Pholiotina, Pluteus, and Psilocybe are some of the biological genera that include psilocybin mushrooms. Psilocybin mushrooms have long been employed in religious, divinatory, and spiritual contexts by indigenous New World societies. Recreational usage of psilocybin mushrooms is also common. They appear in Stone Age rock art in Africa and Europe, but they are best known for their appearance in Pre-Columbian sculptures and glyphs found throughout North, Central, and South America.