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Georg Wiedemann

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Discovery of a new caerulescent Psilocybe mushroom in Germany: Psilocybe germanica sp.nov.

Drug Testing and Analysis March 31, 2015 Jochen Gartz, Georg Wiedemann 13 citations

Sixty years ago, the ethnomycologist R. G. Wasson discovered an ancient mushroom cult in Oaxaca, Mexico.1, 2 The famous mycologist R. Heim classified the psychoactive mushroom species in the genera Psilocybe and the eminent natural product chemist Albert Hofmann published the isolation, structural elucidation and synthesis of the new alkaloids psilocybin and psilocin in 1958. These indole...