Psilocybe natalensis spores, now Psilocybe ochraceocentrata

If you have been searching for Psilocybe natalensis and finding contradictory results, here is why: the species has been reclassified. The taxon long circulated as P. natalensis is now treated as Psilocybe ochraceocentrata. Both names refer to the same southern African species, and both are in use across the trade, which is why every listing here carries both.

It is a grassland and dung-associated species from the KwaZulu-Natal region of South Africa, and it has become one of the more interesting groups in serious collections because its crosses with cubensis lines produce genuinely distinct morphology. MycoWorld holds one of the deeper ranges of it in the United Kingdom.

The name change, plainly

Psilocybe natalensis was described from South Africa and circulated under that name for years. Subsequent taxonomic work placed the material now in general circulation under Psilocybe ochraceocentrata instead.

For a buyer this mostly matters for searching. Older catalogues, forum posts and labels say natalensis; newer taxonomic sources say ochraceocentrata. We list both on every product so a search either way finds the right thing.

Natal Moon and the crosses

Natal Moon is the best-known cross in this group, pairing P. natalensis with Phobos. The library also carries black-cap isolates, a leucistic Ochra expression and several crosses into cubensis lines. Where a cross is documented, both parents are named in the listing.