The poster child for psychedelic mushrooms is named after a country that doesn't use it (opens in new tab)

In 1906, a U.S. plant pathologist named Franklin Sumner Earle collected a small brown mushroom in Cuba and shipped it to the New York Botanical Garden. He called it Stropharia cubensis — later reclassified as — and never mentioned it again in any of his letters. — Read the rest The post appeared first on .