Psilocybe cubensis spores.

The ghost-white cube that fooled its own name: a pale, blue-bruising leucistic line that still drops a proper dark purple print, so it studies like a classic A-strain and photographs like nothing else.

A big, old-school rainforest line carried out of the Amazon by a long-gone Hawaiian spore house. Tall fruitbodies and a dark, heavy, dependable purple-brown print made for the microscope.

The Albino Penis Envy line that grew a print back. APE-R keeps the bulky PE look but drops a proper dark spore print, which makes it one of the more rewarding albino-lineage cubes to put under glass.

The big, easygoing classic, and the cube that taught half the hobby to focus a microscope. A heavy purple-black spore print and clean, textbook spores.

A Thai cube tied to Ban Hua Thanon, a real fishing village on Koh Samui. Reportedly tall and slender with round cinnamon-brown caps and a clean, heavy purple-brown print. Most of its detailed backstory is vendor lore, not documented fact.

Originally isolated from wild mushrooms in Mississippi. Big, dark golden caps and thick stems. A fun one to put under the scope.

The cube that borrowed its name from a completely different mushroom. A blue-bruising charmer with a tangled backstory and a clean, dependable purple-brown spore drop.

A wild Southeast Asian cube tied to the temples of Angkor Wat, with caramel-cinnamon caps and a dense, dependable purple-brown spore print that makes it a satisfying strain to put under glass.

A Pantanal wetlands line named for the Brazilian river port of Corumba, known for the sharp little peak on its cap and a heavy, textbook purple-brown spore drop.

The "Extraterrestrial 4th Kind": a Texas flower-bed find reportedly flipped into one of the tallest cubes in the hobby. Drops a normal heavy purple-brown print despite a pale, bulbous wild mother.

A hardy highland cubensis named for the Andes, where wild specimens were reportedly collected from cattle dung at altitude. Thick, meaty stems, broad caramel caps, and a dependable dark purple-brown print.

A Mexican cube named for a "hidden" corner of Oaxaca, throwing classic caramel caps and a dependable dark spore drop. Plenty of romance in the name, a little argument over exactly which place it points to.

A wild Thai isolate with a party name and a serious spore habit. Said to come off Phuket elephant dung, and it drops one of the heaviest, easiest prints in the cubensis world.

The cube that prints the wrong colour. Golden Halo drops a rust-gold spore deposit instead of the usual purple-black, which is exactly why people put it under the scope.

The mushroom that taught the hobby what a cubensis looks like. Wide golden-caramel caps, a heavy dark print, and a name everyone knows but nobody can quite source.

A young wild line said to come from the cattle fields around Guápiles on Costa Rica's Caribbean side. A genuine landrace collection rather than a lab strain, with the dark, dependable print of any dependable cube.

A wild-caught Gulf Coast cube with flying-saucer caps and a generous, dark spore drop. Named for the warm pasture country where Psilocybe cubensis genuinely grows feral.

An old-school spore-vendor classic from the High Times era: caramel caps, a thick white stem and a generous, dark print that made it a staple of microscopy shelves long before "strains" were a marketing word.

A big, chestnut-capped cube with a Star Wars name and a backstory nobody can pin down. Heavy, dense spore drops make it a generous strain to put under glass.

A Thai island cube tied to ethnomycologist John Allen's field trips, famous for stumpy thick stems and broad saucer caps. A standard heavy purple-brown print and clean, textbook spores.

A washed-out, almost-albino take on the old Burma line, pale alabaster caps with soft lavender tones, yet it still drops a properly purple spore print. Leucistic, not albino, and that difference is the whole point under the scope.

A pale, frost-pretty version of a hardy Andean highland cube. White-to-cream caps with golden flecks, yet it still drops a proper dark purple-brown print, so it studies like a classic Ecuador.

A genuine wild Georgia find, foraged off wood chips and a little horse manure and isolated by an anonymous Shroomery hunter. Golden caps, a dense dark print, and clean textbook spores.

An old Mexican-named line carrying the romance of the Sierra Mazateca, with caramel caps and a heavy, dependable dark purple-brown print that drops in mass.

A European favourite named for Terence McKenna, famous for caps that go wavy and contorted at maturity. A plain cubensis with an uncertain backstory and a clean, dependable dark print.

A golden Mexican cube that earned its name in the old Amsterdam smart shops. Throws a heavy, dependable purple-brown print and clean, textbook spores for the microscope.

A modern Dutch-bred hybrid that marries the ghost-pale Moby Dick to the big, easygoing B+. Pale, frosted caps over a dark-depositing spore print.

A Thai-line cube with golden caps, thick stems and those distinctive curling rims, named off an anime favourite. A standard dark cubensis print, sometimes a lighter depositor, all-purple lineage and all.

Our house pick of Psilocybe cubensis: a dependable, classic-looking cube chosen for clean, heavy spore drops rather than a famous backstory. A curator's choice labelled.

A modern Mexican collection named for a Maya king, with one genuinely odd party trick under the microscope: a rusty, reddish-brown spore print that drops light rather than the usual heavy purple-black.

A Thai island cube with a buffalo for a namesake and a contested origin. Reddish-gold caps, fast blue bruising, and a clean dark purple-brown print that drops well for the slide.

The cube that shipped alongside PF Tek, the home method that got a whole generation started. Named for the man behind it, it drops a clean, heavy purple-brown print that is a pleasure to study under the scope.

The cube that breaks the rule: a Florida pasture find from 1982 said to drop a genuinely red spore print instead of the usual purple-black. A collector's curiosity with a properly documented backstory.

The leucistic cube with the party trick: a pale, ghostly fruitbody that drops a rust-brown print instead of the usual purple-black. A genuine oddity for the slide.

A classic-name cubensis with a great story and a shaky paper trail. Caps that tip up toward the sky as they age, and a heavy, dark purple-brown print that makes it a pleasure on the slide.

A Thai mountain collection with a real name behind it: ethnomycologist John Allen, a single wild mushroom near a buffalo-manure shed, and a strain so quiet most of the hobby has never heard of it.

A red-capped cube from one of the oldest rainforests on the map. The story goes it was wild-collected in Malaysia's Taman Negara, and it drops a heavy, textbook-dark purple-brown print.

The Penis Envy that actually shares its spores. A hobbyist cross of PE and a Texas cubensis, built to keep the PE look while finally dropping a heavy, dark, study-friendly print.

The Texas cube collectors keep coming back to for its colour: vivid golden-yellow caps that drop a heavy, textbook-dark purple-brown print. A low-profile line with a great look and a hazy backstory.

A modern designer cube, reportedly B plus crossed with Penis Envy. Wavy cap margins, a thick PE-style stem, and a standard dark purple-brown print, though as an unstable line its sporulation can be hit or miss. Famous as the parent of the sporeless Enigma blob.

A genuinely wild Venezuelan cubensis, collected as a single jungle flush and only a few grow-outs removed from its mountain origin. A landrace line with a real, recent backstory rather than vendor mythology.

A pale, ghostly take on the Golden Teacher that everyone already knows. Same easygoing GT bones, the colour drained out of the cap and stem, but a spore print that still comes down a proper dark purple-brown.

The workhorse cube: a fast, aggressive colonising line famous for dropping heavy, dark prints almost as soon as the gills ripen. A reliable first strain to put under glass.

One syringe, more than twenty Psilocybe cubensis varieties pooled into a single Halloween mystery mix for the microscope.

The plainest, most old-school cube in the cabinet: a sharp little nipple on the cap, a heavy purple-brown print, and the pigmented parent that the famous Albino A+ was later isolated from.

An Aussie pasture classic: golden caps the colour that gave the whole country its slang for these mushrooms, plus a heavy dark purple-brown print that makes it a satisfying line to study.

A Southeast Asian regional cube with a famous "Mushroom John" backstory, big caramel caps and a generous, dependable dark purple-brown spore drop. A great-looking heavy depositor for the slide.

A wild collection said to have come off cattle dung in the foothills of an active volcano. A warm-brown, easygoing cube with a dark, generous spore print that makes it a friendly study subject.

A South-Pacific cube named for the islands, famous for unusually warm orange-caramel caps and a clean, dependable purple-brown spore drop that photographs beautifully on a slide.

A modern cube with a great name and almost no paper trail. We sell it as a good-looking collector's cubensis and we are upfront that the backstory is lore, not record.

A Mexican landrace named for the Oaxacan town at the heart of mushroom history. Caramel caps, long curling stems, and a dark print that ties this cube to María Sabina's mountains.

A wild-collected line named for the tropical southwest coast of India, famous among collectors for one frustrating quirk: a stubborn veil that hangs on past maturity and makes it a notoriously stingy spore dropper.

A genuine Nepalese dung collection, reportedly gathered near the Chitwan jungle on elephant or rhino dung. Reddish cinnamon caps, a dark purple-brown print, and one of the few cubes with a real wild origin story.

The famous "mutant" cube: a thick, bulbous stem, a cap that barely opens, and so few spores it is a genuinely scarce collector's print. Beloved, contested, and stubborn under the lens.

A Penis Envy oddball that keeps its veil: a thick, slow, late-opening cube famous for being a stubborn, stingy spore depositor. One for the patient collector, not the impatient one.

A Gulf Coast cube named for the Florida panhandle, with tan caps that famously turn up at the rim and sometimes split, plus a clean, dependable dark spore drop.

A tropical cubensis named for the island it is said to have come from, remembered for broad golden caps on slim stems and a clean, heavy purple-black spore print that makes it a generous strain to study.

A reputed Florida coast landrace with a pale golden look, a heavy purple-brown spore drop, and one famous quirk: it loves to throw the odd ghostly low-pigment fruitbody.

A short, stubby Ecuador substrain with a wood-grained cap, named after the contested forum figure who put it out. Well-pigmented spores and a backstory that is half mycology, half message-board drama.

Three 12mL Psilocybe cubensis spore syringes in one bundle, a collector's starter set across your pick of strains. For spore microscopy only.