Hello all, Your help is required. I was walking over the weekend in the lovely Coromandel and found these mushrooms. Going by the blue staining I assume they contain psilocybin, but if you could help me with identification it would greatly help. Also any information regarding potency/dosage would also be great. Cheers, Jon Shot at 2012-06-11 Shot at 2012-06-11 Shot at 2012-06-11 Shot at 2012-06-11
Cheers guys, being from less temperate climes when it comes to positively identifying anything other than liberty caps I'm out of my element. Good times ahead.
Its very difficult to make an accurate identification without classifying the attributes properly. Please next time post a picture of the sporeprint and a better picture of the location. Also, what state are you living in? What season is it? But from what I can guess from visual identification alone is psilocybe ovoideocystidiata. Or a distant cousin of the psilocybe cubensis, but like i said before you cant tell withoout the proper information. Thanks for asking us first though! It also looks like you have more than 1 species of mushroom... I would take a spore print of each one jsut to make sure. Goodluck!
These are not P. ovoideocistidiata though they superficially resemble. Were they found in dung I would say it's P. Cubensis however we need more insight on the habitat they were growing in. There are some other kind mixed in it appears. Make sure to take a spore print and double check for bruisiing.
The were found in a wooded area particularly downs in amongst bits of dead wood and dead, felled tree roots. and it's currently just coming into winter down here. I'll try and get a spore print. But going by online examples of psilocybe ovoideocystidiata, that's exactly how these guys looked upon picking. Cheers
Not cubensis, don't even resemble any cubensis I've ever seen by a long shot. maybe ovoids but I'm a bit skeptical & not so sure from the photos I'm pretty stoned at the moment. Ovoids grow in clusters, usually on dead wood surrounded by a lot of vegetation. I'm not sure that they are known to exist south of the equator, however, which it sounds like you are? which can really affect things. In fact, looks like 2 or 3 species here to me.. Let's wait for some spore prints first.
right. if you are in Au or NZ i think you are too far south for ovoids. P. subaeruginosa is the more likely culprit.
Hmm, bit of a mystery. Yes, there several types there. The second photograph down are ones I picked in the same area but kept separate from the other ones. They've dried out a little too much now to get a spore print, but most of the ones in the last photograph show distinct blue bruising, so I assuming they contain psilocybin. I am not aware of any other fungi that discolour in such a way. But if anyone is aware of any other species of mushroom that discolour in such a way, please be sure to let me know. Much love
This definitely looks like psilocybin bruising and is always a double check method for first time pickers. But, there are some mushrooms that contain toxic chemicals as well as psilocin and psilocybin. So I would be careful. With so many people saying they are and arent I wouldn't eat them until I found out from a proffesional in real life not over the internet. Goodluck
Blue bruising is not always indicative of psilocybin. Various species of cortinarius, Tetrapyrgos nigripes, some deadly poisonous galerina, all stain blue with no psilocybin. Your best bet, as far as through the internet goes, is to try getting an ID off shroomery.org from people who specialize in this sort of thing. Some of them look like psilocybe subaeriginosa to me, but I don't know.
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