Psilocybe Azurescens Mushroom 

Lamellae (Gills):

90-200mm long by 3-6mm thick, silky white, dingy brown from the base or in age, hollow at maturity. Composed of twisted, cartilaginous tissue. Base of stem thickening downwards, often curved, and characterized by coarse white aerial tufts of mycelium, often with azure tones. Mycelium surrounding stipe base densely rhizomorphic, silky white, tenaciously holding the wood-chips together, strongly bruising bluish upon disturbance.

Clamp connections plentiful. Ixocutis hyaline, gelatinous hyphae about 1.5 – 5.5um in diameter. The sub-pellis is a brown band that is more pigmented than the pileal trama. Lamellar trama is made of hyphae 5 – 15 um in diameter and is lightly coated with brown pigments; subhumenium is a 10um thick subcellular dense layer. 5 to 15um thick pileal trama.

Abundant, fusoid-ventricose, tapering to a narrow but short neck, bluntly papillate Pleurocystidia measuring 23-35 x 9-10 um. Cheilocystidia producing a nongelatinized sterile band and measuring 23-28 x 6.5-8.0 um are essentially similar to pleurocystidia. Four-spored basidia measuring 27-30,5 x 6.3-7.2 um.

12-13.5 x 6.5-8.0 um spores that are rich reddish brown in KOH and bright purple-wine colored in aqueous ammoniacal solutions. Wall thickness less than one micron Caulocystidia are widespread above the annular zone; they resemble pleurocystidia, but have thicker walls and are more irregular, reaching 43um in length with undulating necks. On the stipe, the cortical hyphae have somewhat thicker, nearly subgelatinized walls, 3 to 5 um in diameter, with clamps and brown intraperital pigment. Caulocystidia absent below annular zone. Significantly saturated with blue tones.