Need to absorb some info if someone can answer?

I saw this photo on another site and the caption read as follows. "2 nice sized shrooms covered in poison". I live in the same region as this person that posted this and pick the same cubies. Is this a realistic statment by the party that posted this photo? I have picked ones that were black ontop and just figured it was a byproduct from the spores being dropped from a larger one and turning black from drying out. I have consumed some with this black sooty film on them in the past and did not get sick. Can someone please tell me what this person statement means if anything? I don't want to get anyone sick.

 

Eating the spores of P. cubensis shouldn't hurt you.

I remember reading somewhere that most of the spores that come to rest on the cap tend to be from the individual agaric on which they lay. I don't know how true that is, though. I've also never seen a psilocybe in the wild nor have I seen that amount of discoloration on the caps of cultivated mushrooms, but the person I've met who grows them tends to pick them before the partial veil breaks anyway, so he wouldn't know how much spores can discolor a cap.

 

well, i've only ever seen spores fall down, onto the stipe of the mushroom which released it and caps/stipes of the smaller mushrooms of the same flush. the thing is, spores are purplish/black and dusty, and if they fell from a taller mushroom they wouldnt likely be covered in a uniform fashion.

judging from the picture both caps are covered uniformly by a substance, with nothing on the stipes. and whatever is on the cap looks brown, not purple/black.

i can't tell what is on the mushroom, or if the caps themselve may just be a different color. it may very well be poisonous, or they may be mushrooms which look SIMILAR to cubes in structure and happen to be growing in the same area as real cubes, or it could be some anomoly of dropped spores.

but my first impression certainly would not be that the discoloration is from the spores of other mushrooms.

i dont know!

 

Hmmm...

I DOUBT the spores from a larger mushroom would completely cover the shroom like that, nesta is right, you would see a dusty coating on the tops, but it would NOT cover the whole shroom so perfectly like that.

I dont know if its actually poisonous- if you have any doubts its best to simply not eat the shroom. If you do- you're taking a gamble. And sorry to sound like a broken record, because I'm sure you hear this a lot, but a shroom trip is not worth the possible risk of death.

Be safe

 

Can't wait to see SHROOMS....I'll be catching it when it comes out for sure.

 

maybe the poison was philosobin duhhhhhh like durban poison the weed is killer weed as in good not literally poison