Teonanacatl
The Narcotic Mushroom of the Aztecs
Schultes's botanical account of his 1938-39 fieldwork with Blas Pablo Reko among the Mazatec, tracing the teonanácatl rediscovery from Reko's 1923 letter through Robert Weitlaner's 1936 visit to Huautla de Jiménez. Schultes identifies the mushroom as Paneolus campanulatus var. sphinctrinus.
External sourceJuly-September 1940
Academic Article
EthnobotanyPsilocybin
Richard Evans Schultes