Official Ps. Subtropicalis/Semperviva Thread

So here's my first grow of sempreviva. I got a very nice buzz from 0.5g dried, comparable to APE or perhaps stronger.

I started from spores 6 months ago. The first culture never fruited, I suspect that was a mono. In January, 3 months ago I got this pin:

I ran with the same shoeboxes I use for cubes and got quite small fruits. It took me a good 20 minutes to clean these:

I got curious due to the look of these and did some microscopy. They match quite well the notes of Heim & Cailleux (1959, 1966) for semperviva,

I don't quite get why this thread is called subtropicalis/semperviva. These are different species as far as I can tell. Subtropicalis has branched cheilocystidia, while subtropicalis has unbranched.

I found it interesting that subtropicalis originated as a lab grown culture by Heim and Cailleux. They speculated that what they got was a mutation of mexicana, or a cross between mexicana and caerulescens. Guzmán assigned semperviva to hoogshagenii, but by 1998 he also recognized semperviva and subtropicalis as distinct species.

Edit: spore sizes
(6.1) 6.6 - 7.5 (7.7) × (4.7) 4.8 - 5.4 (5.7) µm
Q = (1.2) 1.3 - 1.45 (1.5) ; N = 36
Me = 7.1 × 5.1 µm ; Qe = 1.4

7.55 5.08
7.70 5.37
7.21 5.19
7.19 5.57
7.73 5.01
7.50 5.66
7.32 5.57
7.72 5.33
6.93 5.24
7.40 5.40
6.57 5.01
7.38 5.23
7.28 5.00
6.70 4.78
7.33 5.31
6.63 4.89
7.34 5.06
7.38 5.38
7.33 5.35
7.40 4.94
6.54 4.93
7.36 5.07
6.64 4.72
6.72 4.90
6.75 5.41
6.78 5.17
7.09 4.90
6.91 5.28
6.14 4.80
6.72 5.04
6.78 4.88
6.81 4.75
7.41 5.12
7.09 5.08
6.53 4.79
6.73 5.04

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