1. Colombian ‘Psilocyne Colombiescens’ Spores Spray
A culture ampoule of the Colombian strain, with a sterile syringe included. Inside is living mycelium rather than spores, ready to be injected straight into a prepared substrate.
The Colombian strain has been a fixture of home mycology for decades, known for thick stems and a dependable multi-flush yield. It is a warmth-loving strain rather than a tolerant one.
About the species name on the label: it is not one. The binomial printed on this product appears in no mycological index, and it is a trade convention rather than a description of an organism. We flag it here because a product page is a poor place for invented botany. What you are actually buying is a well-established cultivated strain.
Legal status: The legal position: cultures and spores carry no psilocybin and are legal to sell in the Netherlands. Cultivation of psilocybin mushrooms is another matter and is illegal across much of Europe, including Germany and the UK, with some jurisdictions restricting spores too. Check your own law before ordering.
2. Specifications
| Specification | Detail |
|---|---|
| Product name | Colombian ‘Psilocyne Colombiescens’ Spores Spray |
| Sold under the name | Psilocyne colombiescens — not a recognised species |
| Strain | Colombian |
| Supplied as | A living culture in a sealed ampoule, syringe included |
| Colonisation temperature | 23 °C to 25 °C — growth stalls below 20 °C |
| Price | €18.95 |
| Suggested substrate | Sterilised rye grain, or rye with vermiculite |
| Storage | Refrigerated at 2 to 4 °C, never frozen |
| Psilocybin content | None. The alkaloids come later, from the mycelium and fruiting bodies |
| Age restriction | 18+ only |
3. A real confusion
This strain carries two separate naming problems, and separating them is genuinely useful:
- The invented one. “Psilocyne colombiescens” on the packaging is not a species. Psilocyne is not even a genus — the genus is Psilocybe. This is trade invention.
- The real one. Psilocybe columbiana genuinely exists: a distinct wild species described by Gastón Guzmán in 1978 from Colombia’s subtropical páramo meadows between 1,000 and 1,600 metres. It is not what is in this ampoule.
- What is in the ampoule is a cultivated Psilocybe cubensis lineage associated with the region — the strain the trade calls Colombian.
3.1 Why the distinction is practical, not pedantic
- Growing information does not transfer. Advice about a high-altitude wild species tells you nothing useful about a cubensis culture in a sealed container.
- Neither do potency figures. Numbers published for one organism should never be applied to the other.
- It affects what you trust generally. A supplier who prints an invented binomial is not necessarily wrong about anything else, but it does tell you how much weight to give the label.
- What you can rely on is the specification table: a cubensis culture with a known temperature range and a known reputation.
On its own terms the Colombian is a good strain — thick-stemmed fruits and dependable flushes — provided you can hold it above 20 °C. Below that it does not slow down, it stops.
4. Inoculating your substrate
- Clean first, open second. Hands, surface and the outside of the ampoule, all wiped down, in a room with no air movement.
- Unpack the sterile syringe carefully. If the needle touches anything, it is no longer sterile.
- Draw up the culture without setting anything down mid-way.
- Inject small amounts at several points across the substrate surface.
- Seal, label and leave undisturbed in the dark at the strain temperature.
4.1 What success and failure look like
- Success: white growth spreading outward from each injection point within one to two weeks, eventually joining into a solid white block.
- Failure: any green, grey or blue-green colour. That is mould, the batch is lost, and no amount of cutting it out will save it.
- Also failure: a sour or ammonia smell, which means bacteria have taken the substrate.
- Do not open it to check. Every opening is another chance for a contaminant to get in. Look through the container.
Psilocyne colombiescens is invented. Psilocybe columbiana is real and is a different organism. Neither of them is quite what the label says.
- A living mycelium culture of the Colombian Psilocybe cubensis strain, with a sterile syringe.
- “Psilocyne colombiescens” is invented — Psilocyne is not even a genus.
- Not to be confused with Psilocybe columbiana, a real wild species described by Guzmán in 1978.
- Thick stems and dependable flushes, but it stalls outright below 20 °C.
- Colonises at 23 to 25 °C. Keeps six months refrigerated.
- Legal in the Netherlands; cultivation is illegal in many other countries. 18+ only.
- Order before 16:00 on weekdays for same-day dispatch in plain, unmarked packaging.
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