What are magic mushrooms? Magic mushrooms commonly known shrooms or Psilocybin mushrooms,  are a polyphyletic, informal group of fungi that contain psilocybin and psilocin. Biological genera containing psilocybin mushrooms include Copelandia, Gymnopilus, Inocybe, Panaeolus, Pholiotina, Pluteus, and Psilocybe. Some mushrooms that look like psilocybin mushrooms are poisonous. If you eat a poisonous mushroom, you could […]