Psilocybe Mushrooms of North America and Beyond (2019)

This talk is for general audiences with no need for advanced mycological education. The presentation will discuss the science and lore, with lots of pretty images, of psychedelic mushrooms…their discovery, taxonomy, and basic biology; plus their chemistry, legal / illegal status, and where they occur worldwide. A particular emphasis will be on the genus Psilocybe as this group is the most well known for their psychotropic properties and most recently have gotten a great deal of attention for potential as a powerful therapeutic.

Britt Bunyard, PhD, is the Executive Director of the Telluride Mushroom Festival, and is the founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of the mycology journal FUNGI. Britt has worked academically (and played very amateurishly) as a mycologist his entire career, writing scientifically for many research journals, popular science magazines, and books, most recently Mushrooms and Macrofungi of Ohio and Midwestern States (2012) by The Ohio State University Press. He has served as an editor for mycological and entomological research journals, and mushroom guide books. A popular evangelizer on all things fungal, Britt has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, PBS’s NOVA and Wisconsin Foodie television programs, and in The Atlantic, Forbes, Saveur, Women’s World, and others. He is the co-editor of MycoEpithalamia: Mushroom Wedding Poems (The FUNGI Press), published in 2016. He is the co-author of The Amanitas of North America, scheduled for publication in 2019.

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