Golden Teacher is a cultivar — an informally named strain — of Psilocybe cubensis, the species formally described by Franklin Sumner Earle in 1906 and transferred to Psilocybe by Rolf Singer in 1949. It carries no independent taxonomic status. Spores are subellipsoid, measuring 11–17 × 7–12 µm, with a thick smooth wall, dark purple-brown pigmentation, and a distinctive apical germ pore. In the UK, ungerminated spores are legal to possess for microscopy resear … read more