Our Selection.

What's known

Here's what's meant to be true and not.

What we actually know

• It is a plain Psilocybe cubensis. Not a separate species, not a hybrid, not a leucistic or albino strain.
• Our Selection is a house label rather than a documented genetic strain. It has no published origin story in the usual mycology forums or wikis, and we will not invent one.
• It was chosen for the qualities that make a cube easy to study: broad caps, crowded gills and a heavy, dependable spore deposit.
• As a standard cubensis it drops a dark purple-brown to near-black print in mass, the same as the textbook species description.
• Strength is a cultivation question, not a strain badge. As the saying goes, a cube is a cube, and we make no potency claims for collectors.

What the community says

• The name is the whole story here. "Our Selection" is said to mean simply the variety the shop settled on as its everyday workhorse, not a secret strain with a hidden pedigree.
• Because house picks rarely keep paperwork, the exact parent material is not documented. It traces back to ordinary, widely circulated cubensis stock rather than anything exotic.
• Vendor house names like this one are sometimes assumed to be rebadged Golden Teacher or B+. That is a reasonable guess for any unbranded cube, but it is guesswork, not record. Treat it as community speculation.

Where it came from

Most famous cubes come with an origin legend, a named collector, a jungle, a date. Our Selection has none of that, and that is the point. The name is not coy marketing for a secret lineage. It is literally what it says: the Psilocybe cubensis we settled on as a dependable everyday variety, chosen for how cleanly it behaves in the lab rather than for a story we could put on a poster.

We could have dressed it up. Plenty of house picks get retro-fitted with a tale about a vanished hobbyist or a far-flung dung pasture. We would rather be straight with you. There is no documented isolation event, no creator name and no place of origin we can point to and stand behind, and inventing one would be the easiest way to lose your trust. By most accounts a label like this traces back to ordinary, widely shared cubensis stock, the same gene pool that gives us the classic broad-capped, heavy-dropping cube.

If you want a famous backstory, plenty of strains have one. If you want a clean, generous spore print from a cube we are happy to vouch for, this is the one we reach for.

What to expect at the scope

For a collector the useful question is not "who named it" but "does it deposit well and read clearly under glass". This is where Our Selection earns its place. It was picked for a heavy, even spore drop and the textbook subellipsoid, thick-walled spores the species is known for, the sort of sample that makes focusing your first objective genuinely satisfying. No surprises, no novelty, just a well-mannered cube. Simple framing, simple mushroom.