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"Biosynthetic gene mining of the L. asiatica genome found no close hits with any genes known in the production of mushroom psychoactive compounds," write the researchers in their published paper.

"This supports our hypothesis of the presence of a novel unidentified metabolite responsible for the unique hallucinogenic properties of L. asiatica."

Yeah. No known hallucinogens.

Can't wait for it to become known so governments all across the world can throw you in a prison cell and ruin your life for it like the other known hallucinogens.

They finally found it. The Blue Angel mushroom really does exist...

they found no close matches to genes associated with psilocybin or ibotenic acid, two well-known mushroom hallucinogens

None that we already know about, not the same as none

Maybe it's not a hallucination at all. Maybe the mushroom is actually an anti-hallucinogen. It suppresses the hallucinations that normally prevent us from seeing the tiny people.

Potentially (potentially doing a LOT of heavy lifting here) unethical, make a reasonably comfortable tiny person cell, take the mushrooms, put a tiny person in the cell. A second person who is completely unaware of the previous events takes the mushroom and we see if they can see the same tiny person still in the cell.

Well it does contain a psychedelic drug, just not one that we've identified yet.

I know that most people describe these hallucinations as unpleasant, but I do kinda want to know. I wanna meet those little guys.

Lanmaoa asiatica

My sincerest apologies. I know the way out.

They're just enabling you to see the fae that are always there. DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR NAME, NO MATTER WHAT!

No matter what it is, it is fascinating in its own right that it has such a specific visual effect on users.

Maybe this mushroom was very common once and is the source for folk tales of all sorts.

I mean there are truly a lot of old stories involving tiny people.

Well yeah, these guys live there

Regardless of the actual metabolite responsible, this does raise the question of whether, if any other species consume them and are susceptible, they see tiny versions of their own species?

Clickbait headline, the primary object of that study was to figure out phylogeny of these mushrooms. finding no known genes associated with known hallucinogens is a bonus and pretty useless info because the compound responsible for this activity is not known, how do you know how it's made then