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A disappearing cat. A smoking caterpillar on a mushroom. A girl who grows and shrinks after eating strange things. It sounds like a psychedelic trip — but is it? People have linked Alice in Wonderland and hallucinogens for decades. However, the real story behind Lewis Carroll's famous tale may surprise you. In this article, we look at the evidence, the myths, and the real mushroom connections.
Wild Magic Mushrooms in Unexpected Places
March 23, 2026
From royal gardens to urban parks — the surprising places wild psychedelic mushrooms actually grow (2026 Update)
In 2014, a British celebrity gardener was exploring the grounds of Buckingham Palace when they noticed something distinctive growing in the manicured lawn: bright red caps, speckled with white. Amanita muscaria — the fly agaric — in full fruiting, right in the heart of one of the most photographed gardens in the world. The story made headlines around the world, and the palace spokesperson offered one of the more memorable mycological press statements on record: "Fungi from the garden are not used in the palace kitchens."
Portrait — The Man Who Introduced the World to Magic Mushrooms
R. Gordon Wasson was a New York banker. In 1955, he sat in a candlelit hut in the mountains of Mexico and ate magic mushrooms with a Mazatec healer. Two years later, he told the world about it. Nothing in mushroom culture has been quite the same since.
This is the story of who R. Gordon Wasson really was — the curiosity that drove him, the partnerships that shaped him, and the complicated legacy he left behind.
If you have ever heard the words "magic mushroom," you can trace them back to one man: R. Gordon Wasson. He was born in 1898 in Great Falls, Montana. For most of his adult life, Wasson worked as a vice president at J.P. Morgan & Co. — a world of suits, figures, and boardrooms. And yet, beneath that polished exterior, he carried one of the most profound questions a person can ask: why do mushrooms make us feel like we have touched something sacred?
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