Identifying Mushrooms

[FreakyJoeMan]

Hey, could someone post some images of Psilocybin mushrooms? There's a bunch of shrooms growin in our area, and I just wanna know if any of em are magic.

[WeeDMaN]

A picture wont be enough information to identify a shroom.
Im sure somebody on this forum can help.

[RoBoWaLkEr]

FreakyJoeMan, I would say to you be more than careful. It can be extremely hard to identify the safe shrooms from the ones that will seriously fuck you up. Even experienced pickers can make confusions, so you need to really know what you're doing. I would suggest doing a bit of research. Maybe shroomery.org or is it theshroomery.org? Oh well. Happy pickins.

[MagnanimityMan]

hey man. if they're just growin out in fields, and still growing out of the earth itself... like, mega fresh... then there's an easy way to see if they're what you're diggin. first off, they usually will show their pretty faces a day or two after rain. if you know it hasn't rained, or has been basically p[retty dry, no environment was ever given to them to grow the goods... secondly, with the shooms, if you noticed it has been a little damp lately, pull one of the shrooms out of the ground, and with the stem, give it a good squeeze... make sure you really squeeze it, and try to around the middle of the stem, if not a little closer to the cap. put it down for a minute of two... and when you look at it after that minute, assess it for a blueish or purpleish bruise. if you get a bruise after you gave it a little pinch, then they're dynomite. if not, it'll be a little more risky to chomp em down.
good luck shroomin man. keep in touch. let us know what's up.
peace man

[MagnanimityMan]

oh man! also... check out the vails... the lungs. look under the cap itself. with most field shrooms you should see a beautifully patterned sun. it looks almost like a bike wheel, with the spokes branching out from the center. you want to make sure the shrooms have a nice, healthy looking under carrage. basically, check under the cap. they will probably be a nice tan, golden color. that's what i've been familiar with in florida. i'm no expert, but i have plenty of south florida experience... so if ol' N to the motherfuckin C is anything like ol' F to the mother fuckin retirement village, then you're awlright.
keep it real./

[RoBoWaLkEr]

LOL. "F to the motherfuckin retirement village" That's funny cause it's true. I used to live down there. Such bad drivers, and man do they love their early bird specials...

[geckopelli]

What part of the country are you in?

[PurpleGel]

don't forget the panaeolus (spelling problem....) species. the tall, thin-stemmed tannish brown conical-capped shroom. grows in cowshit and sometimes glasslands (in certain areas). peace.

[FreakyJoeMan]

What part of the country are you in?

I'm in the mountains of North Carolina.

[geckopelli]

Your going to have to hit the lowland cow pastures in North Carolina or go to South Carolina(worth the trip) or west Tenn when the rains hit in Aug.

The same type grow those places- purple ringers, Psilocybe cubensis.

Brewing 4lbs into some tea this afternoon!

[jaxracer7]

Hey im in florida and me and my buddy were tryin to find some E, but after a couple failed attempts realized we were a 2 minute walk from a cow field, so we took a walk, and we found all sorts of different looking shrooms, but the only ones we picked we the ones he called "purple ringers" in 20 minutes we found about 30 i took a pic of those and will be posting it as soon as i can but in the mean time does anybody have any other pics of different kinds, cuz i have a feeling some of the others may be good also, there were some that looked like the same underside as the purple ringers, but they were white and had a dickhead shape, and were closed off on the bottom, just curious

brandon

[geckopelli]

Did they look like this?

[wandrnshaman]

Sounds like a death cap if it was solid white. Stick with the golden caps (purple ringers, cubensis).

The panaeolous(copelandia) cyanescens (blue meanies)are a bit harder to id since there is different panaeolouses in the same habitat. If you really want to try them, they will bruise blue like the cubies but itthe bruising will look very dark, black.

Mushroom John's copelandia cyanescens page (http://www.mushroomjohn.com/species6a.htm)

[FreakyJoeMan]

Most of the mushrooms round here have thicker stems, though they do have a golden brown cap.

[jaxracer7]

yea thats what they looked like, i dont know why i said they were white, they did look just like that, im curious are those ok to eat, and if so are they any stronger than the puplre ringers? there were also some other ones with real fat short stems and what looked like bumpy sorta scales on top, but i had a bad feeling about those so i left 'em alone. I've been fiding these at like between 8 & 9 in the evening, i tried going out at like 4 like i was told but they're to damn hard to see!

[wandrnshaman]

That is a picture of a purple ringer, it's just a young one, the veil hasn't broken yet. When it's more mature, the cap will open releasing purple spores, some of which will end up on the outer edge of the top of the cap, hence the name purple ringer.

Don't mess with the 'bumpy' ones. They might be poisonous chlorophyllum molybdites.

[geckopelli]

Often they have real thick stems at this stage.

But sometimes they are thin as a tooth pick.

Those other ones will make you sick enough to think you're going to die, but you won't.

[FreakyJoeMan]

At this point the caps are curling up to form a bowl shape. Is this usual, and/or signifies a species?

[wandrnshaman]

strain, you mean, right? as in b+, gulf coast, treasure coast, amazon, pesa...
species would be psilocybe cubensis.
:)

no, its common, sometimes they do. Shape varies a good bit with cubies. Better characteristics to look for would be the color and flesh texture, the greenish-blue bruising. Here's a link to a page with a pic of a few immature mushrooms gathered from the fields. You can see that some have formed like this and some didn't, all same strain.

http://www.mushroomjohn.com/species28c.htm

[geckopelli]

Another picture:

[Cosmic Butterfly]

Im reading some really good books.

Mushrooms DeMystified ( good book) by David Arora

and my favorite

Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World by Paul Stamets. This is a must have book, and worth the price. I checked out these books at my local library.