Cultivated variety

Mazatapec

Psilocybe cubensis

aka Mazatec · Maz

Named for the Sierra Mazateca of Oaxaca, home to the Mazatec people and the ceremonial tradition that reached international attention after R. Gordon Wasson's 1957 account of a velada with curandera María Sabina. The variety sold under this name today is a hobbyist stabilization tied to that regional reputation — not a mushroom sourced from those ceremonies, and the direct chain of custody is undocumented.

Field marks

Small to medium caramel caps
Thinner stems than hybrids
Matures faster than big-yield lines
Less robust than Golden Teacher

Origin & lineage

Named for and associated with the Sierra Mazateca region of Oaxaca, Mexico; the cultivated lineage traces to Western interest following Wasson's 1957 published account.

Relative potency

moderateRelative only — this guide gives no dosing guidance.

Lookalikes — read this twice

Often lumped in with other Mexican-labelled varieties such as Oaxacan, since regional-name lines share modest morphology and rest on unverifiable origin claims rather than confirmed genetics.

Deadly species grow in the same places as psilocybin ones and can resemble them closely. Never eat a wild mushroom identified from a website — including this one.