Science Café Wageningen - Psychedelic Mushrooms - 15 February 2023

Humans have always been fascinated by mushrooms, the macroscopic fruiting bodies of fungi. Mushrooms are mysterious given their sudden aboveground appearance in various shapes, colours and odours, and the range of biochemical powers they possess. Since the 60s mushrooms with hallucinogenic properties gained attention and amongst these fungi Psilocybe species are best known.