The Burma strain originates from Southeast Asia, from the country of the same name, Burma, which is located between Thailand and India.
The story goes that a Thai student collected the Burma mushroom strain from buffalo dung found in a rice field. Legend has it that the original Burma mushrooms were collected near Yangon (then Rangoon), a border village between Thailand and Burma, which is now known as Myanmar.
The student gave a sample of the mushroom to John W. Allen, a noted mushroom pioneer who is credited with discovering many species of Psilocybe mushrooms and importing them to the West in the late 1990s.
Allen is believed to have grown only one species of the Burma mushroom and propagated the original spores, spreading them around the world.
*Spores do not contain psilocybin and are for taxonomic and mycological research purposes only.