View source for Panaeolus tropicalis

{{Taxobox 
| color = lightblue
| name = ''Panaeolus tropicalis''
| image = Pantrop1.jpg
| regnum = [[Fungi]]
| phylum = [[Basidiomycota]]
| classis = [[Hymenomycetes]]
| ordo = [[Agaricales]]
| familia = [[Bolbitiaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Panaeolus]]''
| species = '''''P. tropicalis'''''
| binomial = ''Panaeolus tropicalis''
| binomial_authority = Ola'h
}}
{{mycomorphbox 
| name = Panaeolus tropicalis
| whichGills = adnexed
| capShape = convex
| hymeniumType=gills
| stipeCharacter=bare
| ecologicalType=saprophytic
| sporePrintColor=black
| howEdible=psychoactive}}

'''Panaeolus tropicalis''' is a potent and [[hallucinogenic]] [[mushroom]] which contains [[psilocybin]].

It is also known as ''Copelandia tropicalis''.

== Description ==

The cap is less than 20 mm across, with a convex shape and an incurved margin when young.  It is smooth and grey, often with a brown center and margin.  The gills are [[wikt:adnexed|adnexed]] and grey, with blackish spots.  The stem is 5-12 cm tall, 2.5 mm thick, hollow, and slightly swollen at the base.  The spores are dark violet black, [[ellipsoid]], measuring 11 x 8 micrometres.   The entire mushroom bruises blue where it is handled.

It can be differentiated from ''Panaeolus cyanescens'' by microscopic characteristics.  

== Habitat and distribution ==
''Panaeolus tropicalis'' is mushroom that grows on dung.  It has been found in Hawaii, Cambodia,  Mexico, Tanzania, the Philippines, the Bononi Islands, Florida, and Japan.

[[Image:Pantrop7.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Cultivated ''[[Panaeolus tropicalis]]'']]

== External links ==
* [http://www.erowid.org/plants/show_image.php?i=mushrooms/panaeolus_tropicalis1.jpg Photo of ''P. tropicalis'']
* [http://www.museocivico.rovereto.tn.it/UploadDocs/104_art09-Guzman%20&%20C.pdf A Worldwide Geographical Distribution of the Neurotropic Fungi]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7uKlU-Vg9Y A video that shows how to cultivate Panaeolus tropicalis at home.  In German, with English subtitles.]

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