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Psilocybe |
 | | Psychoactive Psilocybe species are found almost the world over, including Europe, from Greenland to Tierra del Fuego at the most southerly tip of South America, in New Guinea, Australia, and New Zealand (both the north and south islands). |
 | | There is little evidence for the historical use of Psilocybe mushrooms in Europe, although the archaeologist Jeremy Dronfield as suggested that their use by the Neolithic builders and decorators of the Irish megaliths may have been responsible for the hallucinogenic imagery on these monuments, much of which still remains today. |
 | | The pedestal is decorated with numerous mushroom caps identified as the hallucinogenic species Psilocybe aztecorum, which is known solely from the region around the volcano Popocatepetl where the statue was discovered. |
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