This is the most common of Hawai`i's magic mushrooms, occurring in cow dung in pastures throughout the Islands. A powerful hallucinogenic mushroom, we caution against eating this species because it is illegal to possess them and because we have seen too many poisoning cases attributed to the ingestion of misdetermined coprophilous fungi. Descriptions of Copelandia and Panaeolus species may be found in Olah, Le Genre Panaeolus (Rev. Mycol. Ser. 10: 1-274. 1969).
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