Indian Graveyard: a spiral flower mutation, and what that means

01What Indian Graveyard is

Indian Graveyard is a Psilocybe cubensis line supplied as a spore syringe. The catalogue describes it as a Shakti Ghost Spiral Flower Mutation, which records a lineage reference and a mutant form together.

02Lineage and history

Reading the description in pieces:

• Shakti is the line the material traces to, one of the named cubensis lines circulating in the hobby.
• Ghost is a pigment word, conventionally signalling a pale or washed-out expression, in the same loose family as White, Albino and Leucistic.
• Spiral flower describes the mutant form of the fruiting body: cap and gill tissue that develop in a whorled, rosette-like arrangement rather than a normal cap.

Mutant forms are a recurring theme in this chapter. The library also carries YV2B, an unstable YAK mutant, and the Enigma-family lines. The important distinction, set out in Tidal Wave, Enigma and the blob mutations, is that a mutant form which loses its gills entirely loses its spores too, and cannot be sold as a syringe at all. A line that is on this shelf is, by definition, one that still drops spores.

03Under the microscope

The mutation is expressed in the fruiting body, so under the objective Indian Graveyard should read as an ordinary pigmented cubensis: subellipsoid, thick-walled, germ pore, purple-brown in mass.

What is worth measuring is consistency. Mutant and part-mutant lines often carry more variation than a settled isolate, so take twenty spores against a calibrated graticule and compare the range against a worked isolate from this chapter. And take a print: a pale deposit would support the "Ghost" part of the description, while a normal purple-brown one would tell you the pigment word describes the cap rather than the spores.

04Where to buy Indian Graveyard in the UK

Indian Graveyard is in stock now. The card is Indian Graveyard spore syringe in the strain library. Every syringe is a 10 ml luer-lock, filled in a flow hood from a logged print into sterile water, capped, labelled with the strain and its LOT, and refrigerated until it is packed.

• Price: isolated lines are listed at £20 per syringe. The card shows the current price, including any sale.
• UK shipping: £3.80, and free on orders over £75. US orders ship at a flat $8.
• Dispatch: one to two working days from the UK, tracked, in a plain padded mailer with no branding on the outside.
• Every order is 18+ and confirms lawful microscopy use at checkout.

Browse the rest of the collection on the Mushrealm and A.C.S chapter, or open the strain library to filter by species, format or isolation status. If anything arrives cloudy or damaged, email a photo and the LOT number and it is replaced.