In 1906, plant pathologist Franklin Sumner Earle discovered a small mushroom in Cuba and named it *Stropharia cubensis*, later reclassified as *Psilocybe cubensis*. According to Boing Boing, there's an amusing historical irony: the world's most iconic psychedelic mushroom bears the name of a country where it never took cultural or legal root. Earle apparently made the discovery and then never wrote about it again, leaving one of science's most famous organisms shrouded in accidental mystery.

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