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    New African species confirms evolutionary origin of magic mushrooms

    2026-03-11T14:25:00Z

    A long-standing debate about the evolutionary origin of the world’s most widely cultivated ’magic mushroom’ – Psilocybe cubensis – may now have been settled. Scientists describe the discovery of a new species of magic mushroom from the grasslands of South Africa and Zimbabwe.