For you Brits out there, Mushroom season is well and truly here. Go out and get some liberty caps and party on!
i'd go looking but i really have no clue where to even begin or whether or not i'd have the right thing. you could pick some for me and send em ... lol you hunt for mushrooms a lot? you've mentioned that a few times... i take it you know what you are looking for and such? personally i'm clueless on identification.
Can someone post some photo's of what the shrooms look like so us novices can identify them more easily?
Yeah, maybe some sort of guide as to how to identify them would be helpful. I'd love to have a shroom trip but I don't have the connections to get them. They used to sell them in head shops here up until a few months ago.
yer i wouldnt mind some advice on some places to look. i know what they look like and everything...anywhere in kent you'd like to advise fountains of nay? or are you not from these here parts =D??xxxx
These are the little fuckers you want to be looking for... Yes the season is well and truly here. Have several large bagfuls and will be heading out again this weekend but only to look at them of course... No point asking people if they know any locations as no self respecting mushroom hunter is going to give away their special places.... Cowfields and woodland would be your best bet, even around cowshit! lol Don't pull the root out. Pinch the mushrooms at the bottom leaving a little bit in the ground. That way when you go back next week there will be a magic new crop of the little buggers waiting for you... DON'T EAT ANY MUSHROOMS WITHOUT HAVING THEM IDENTIFIED BY SOMEONE WHO HAS A CLUE, EVEN IF THAT'S JUST PUTTING A PICTURE UP ON HERE OR ON A MUSHROOM FORUM. Also is a good idea to boil the lil bastards before eating as they can harbour all kinds of nasty mites etc, especially if you picked them out of cowshit... Of course no-one would actually do anything I said above because as of July last year this would be seriously illegal and I wouldn't want to be condoning, just as you wouldn't want to be comitting, any sort of criminal activity.
Everything REV said I agree with. Although, sheep fields are darn good aswell. Remember dudes; FLICK and then Pick! Also, Look for the nipples and dark-gilled mushrooms, LEAVE THE WHITE ONES!! They not nice
I've just been looking at a shroom identifaction website and there are SO many types of fungi that look just like them, picking some that are safe will be extremely difficult. I think I 'll just ask around, see if anyone can get any for me.
I would suggest you pick them yourself then take pictures so that you can have a live record of what you need identified. If you have someone pick them for you, you probably wouldn't know what you'd be getting since they would be dried by the time you got them.
there are no types of magic mushrooms that grow in northern virginia, it sucks. but i'm getting some this weekend. yay yay!
