shroom hunting

Are there any cow fields in or near Pensacola FL?

lol, go drive around the backroads of the countryside were your at and you will find some cow fields. its not hard,and they dont just grow only from cow shit either they grow in the woods around mulchy areas in your back yard maybe.

good luck with your hunt, i will be doing the same because my girl that i got em from just got popped the other day and after this weekend i will be out, so ill be on the hunt here in the next few days also..just make sure you spore print them and do some studying in books or use google

underRated said:

good luck with your hunt, i will be doing the same because my girl that i got em from just got popped the other day and after this weekend i will be out, so ill be on the hunt here in the next few days also..just make sure you spore print them and do some studying in books or use google

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Only lucky idiots survive self-taught mushroom hunting trips. Whether they are mushrooms to eat like morels or chantrelles or whether they be travel agents like psilocybin. Don't be an idiot, dead or otherwise. Read, read more and then find a grad student who is into 'shrooms and who is a veteran mushroomer. Since you have grown, pick only what you can positively identify 100%. Novices? Buy some from somebody. Again, the best way to learn mushrooms is to go with somebody who already knows them. 30+ years as a RN, 17 of those in ER, and many more as a traveler. Trust me.

And wooded lots hardwoods with forest floor mulch yield more mushrooms than cow patties. Let some hayseed catch you perusing the cow pies in his pasture and risk being shot or laughed out of the county. Maybe both.

A mistake in mushroom identification can not only kill you, it can leave you alive with a destroyed liver needing a transplant. This is nothing to approach casually.

I found some little mushrooms on some cow shit I was wondering how can I tell if their shrooms

hotrodharley said:

Only lucky idiots survive self-taught mushroom hunting trips. Whether they are mushrooms to eat like morels or chantrelles or whether they be travel agents like psilocybin. Don't be an idiot, dead or otherwise. Read, read more and then find a grad student who is into 'shrooms and who is a veteran mushroomer. Since you have grown, pick only what you can positively identify 100%. Novices? Buy some from somebody. Again, the best way to learn mushrooms is to go with somebody who already knows them. 30+ years as a RN, 17 of those in ER, and many more as a traveler. Trust me.

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Listen to this guy. Another factor in novice foraging for the "travel agents" is wish fullfilment. I have seen folks really really really want to have found the mushroom they are looking for and actually not see the negative indicators that are right before their eyes. I have been foraging for almost 40 years and have never found one of "those" on my own, not once, unless i was lead to a likely patch by someone who knew their way around. I am comfortable with a grand total of 3 varieties where I now live and 10 or so in the Pacific Northwest. If you like the concept of walking through the woods with your eyes open to the unseen then bring a key with you, practice with it, admire those mushrooms but don't even consider eating them. Even the most accomplished fungophiles will make mistakes.

glShemp said:

A mistake in mushroom identification can not only kill you, it can leave you alive with a destroyed liver needing a transplant. This is nothing to approach casually.

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And of course there is the "terror trip", the one that has you high on the right ones but terrified that perhaps you made a mistake with one or two and ate them as well - 8 hours of abject fear for your liver or your kidneys making every stomach twitch mean that indeed you did fuck up big time.

Seriously don't try this without someone experienced. I did as a stupid kid and boy am I glad we didn't find anything.
The other time I went was with some people I knew through lab work. My friend who invited me was in the second year of his masters in mycology an he asked the group leader for help with ID a few times because he had never done it before and better safe than dead or dying.