Psilocybe cyanescens, sometimes referred to as wavy caps or as the powerful Psilocybe, is a variety of powerful psychedelic mushroom. The primary substances responsible for its psychedelic results are psilocybin as well as psilocin. It belongs to the household Hymenogastraceae. The mushroom is not usually considered being literally hazardous to grownups. Because all the psychedelic compounds in Psilocybe cyanescens are water-soluble, the fruiting bodies can be made non-psychoactive with parboiling, enabling their culinary use. Considering that most individuals discover them overly bitter and also they are also tiny to have wonderful nutritive value, this is not regularly done. Psilocybe cyanescens can in some cases fruit in enormous quantity; greater than 100,000 mushrooms were found growing in a single patch. Psilocybe cyanescens expands today mostly on wood chips, specifically in and along the perimeter of mulched plant beds in city locations, however can also grow on other lignin-rich substrates. P. cyanescens does not expand on substratum that is not lignin-rich. Fruitings have actually been reported in natural settings formerly although most appear to be movements from mulched plant beds. The species does not commonly grow on compost that is made from bark. Its most distinguishing characteristic is an undulating cap margin (the mycological term for the external edge of the cap), which provides its mushrooms the nickname "wavy caps." It grows on timber chips or woody debris in lawns, yard beds, and also along mulched paths. When young, its mushrooms have a popular, cortinate ("web-like") partial veil, which swiftly breaks down at maturation. P. cyanescens has a relatively high psilocin content, and blues quickly when wounded.