White Golden Teacher (spore print), Buy White Golden Teacher (spore print)
The white golden teacher, known previously as the Leucistic Golden Teacher, is a classic Psilocybe Cubensis variety. A prolific and aggressive producer that grows fast under the microscope. Leucistic means a partial loss of pigmentation- for mushrooms, they lose their gold cap color but still drop black/purplish spores. This is different than Albinos – total loss of pigmentation in caps and spores (translucent spores – still able to see with a microscope). Golden teacher has been so widely spread that over time, the spores has generated these unique expressions—the Leucistic appearance is caused by a reduction in multiple types of pigment, not just melanin. When using multi-spore syringes, the potential for this phenotypic expression happens more often than you would imagine.
Very little is known about who is the first to create a white golden teacher hybrid. The truth is many golden teachers grown with multi-spore syringes have the opportunity to produce the white cap. Here are a few links from shroomery.org that will show how many people are getting this result on accident from spore syringes they purchase. If you search Leucistic teachers or white teachers on Reddit you will find an endless list of images depicting the unique traits which baffle most people getting into mycology.
