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{{Taxobox 
| color = lightblue
| name = ''Panaeolus cyanescens''
| image = Pancyan1.jpg
| regnum = [[Fungi]]
| phylum = [[Basidiomycota]]
| classis = [[Hymenomycetes]]
| ordo = [[Agaricales]]
| familia = [[Bolbitiaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Panaeolus]]''
| species = '''''P. cyanescens'''''
| binomial = ''Panaeolus cyanescens''
| binomial_authority =  ([[Miles Joseph Berkeley|Berkeley]] & [[Christopher Edmund Broome|Broome]]) [[Rolf Singer|Singer]]
| synonyms = ''Agaricus cyanescens''<br/>''Copelandia anomala''<br/>''Copelandia cyanescens''<br/>''Copelandia papilonacea''<br/>''Copelandia westii''
}}
{{mycomorphbox 
| name = ''Panaeolus cyanescens''
| whichGills = adnate
| capShape = convex
| hymeniumType=gills
| stipeCharacter=bare
| ecologicalType=saprophytic
| sporePrintColor=black
| howEdible=psychoactive}}
'''''Panaeolus cyanescens''''', also known as ''Copelandia cyanescens'' and '''blue meanies''' are a hallucinogenic mushroom that contains [[psilocybin]], [[serotonin]], and [[urea]].  [http://www.shroomery.org/8697/Stijve-T-1992-Psilocin-psilocybin-serotonin-and-urea-in-Panaeolus-cyanescens-from-various-origin]

==Description==
The cap is 3.5 cm across, hemispheric to convex, and incurved when young.  Tan at first, becoming light gray in age.  The gills are [[wikt:adnexed|adnexed]] and close, gray to black.  The stem is 8 to 12 cm long and 1 to 3 cm thick and pale yellow, staining blue where bruised.  This mushroom is very similar to ''[[Panaeolus tropicalis]]''.

== Habitat and Distribution==
''Panaeolus cyanescens'' is a [[wikt:coprophiliac|coprophiliac]] (dung-inhabiting) species which grows in tropical and neotropical areas in both hemispheres.  It has been reported in Hawaii, Louisiana, Florida, Australia, India, Mexico, Bolivia, the Philippines, Thailand, France, and Brazil, and is probably more widely distributed.

[[Image:Pan.cyanescens.jpg|250px|Wild ''[[Panaeolus cyanescens]]'']]
[[Image:Pancyan4.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Cultivated ''[[Panaeolus cyanescens]]'']]

==External links==

* [http://www.museocivico.rovereto.tn.it/UploadDocs/104_art09-Guzman%20&%20C.pdf A Worldwide Geographical Distribution of the Neurotropic Fungi]
* [http://www.shroomery.org/34/Panaeolus-Cyanescens Panaeolus cyanescens cultivation]
* [http://www.shroomery.org/8697/Stijve-T-1992-Psilocin-psilocybin-serotonin-and-urea-in-Panaeolus-cyanescens-from-various-origin Psilocin, psilocybin, serotonin and urea in Panaeolus cyanescens from various origins]

 
{{Hallucinogenic mushrooms}}
[[Category:Panaeolus]]
[[Category:Psychoactive mushrooms]]
[[Category:Psychedelic tryptamine carriers]]