Truffles & Shrooms

[tamales]

I live in a place where truffles and shrooms are legal, with truffles costing less. I found out the truffle is just the underground bit of a magic mushroom, not actually truffles as we know truffles to be.

This led me to wonder which shroom is Atlantis from? Also, which shroom makes up what is being sold as "Mushrocks"?

 

[BeccaBuds]

Atlantis is a cultivated variety of Psilocybe Cubensis. Mushrocks (and truffles) are actually dikaryotic mycelium grown out onto grain unfruited.

 

[JohnnieJC3]

Atlantis no longer exists and isn't a Cubensis, it was determined that it's a Tampanensis awhile back. I've grown tamp and Mexi A stones and fruits, you can tell the difference, but they are very similar. Tamps Below.

 

[BeccaBuds]

Hmm, learned something new. Wholecelium has Atlantis spore vials. Page says it is related to P. Mexicana and only grows in Georgia (wikipedia article disagrees) so in Tampanensis known range. They have Truffles, too.
Good article on Wikipedia:
Psilocybe tampanensis - Wikipedia

 

[JohnnieJC3]

I'm seriously surprised that Sclerotia isn't more popular since you don't have to grow fruits and literally just leave them in a jar for 3-6 months. They taste sorta zesty/sour then that mushroom flavor hits hard, but not for very long. Much easier to consume than dry fruits that's for sure.