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This little brown mushroom is laced with a hallucinogen — and lethal toxins
Galerina indica was discovered growing on moss-covered palm trunks in the wetlands of Florida. Credit: Andrew R. Kunik
Nature has brewed a wicked cocktail in Galerina indica. It is the first mushroom known to make both the hallucinogen psilocybin and lethal compounds from a family called amatoxins. This group of deadly poisons includes those found in the death cap (Amanita phalloides), one of the world’s most poisonous mushrooms.
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Kunik, A. R. et al. Curr. Biol. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2026.10.041 (2026).
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