Shrooms! Shrooms! Shrooms!

well it's shroom season again here in florida and woke up to find the below on my front lawn.

trouble is i'm having difficulty identifying them.

so what is it guys..thumbs up or thumbs down?

lol, forgot the pix sky...

schuylaar!!

I have never noticed you here in this domain. Welcome.

can't see your pic and in most cases we don't identify mushrooms by pictures alone but in your case we will try.

racerboy71 said:

lol, forgot the pix sky...

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fuuuuuuuuuck me.

canndo said:

schuylaar!!

I have never noticed you here in this domain. Welcome.

can't see your pic and in most cases we don't identify mushrooms by pictures alone but in your case we will try.

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awwwwwwwwww, cando..

yeah, i do have a life other than our political forum.

I love finding mushrooms around the neighborhood. I havn't found anything magical yet, but someday maybe if I find the right place to look. I like to do spore prints on cool ones I find just for the fun of it though. Take one of the ones that is not open as much, and put if on a piece of white paper with a dish over it for a few hours. You can learn alot about a mushroom from the color of the spores alone(but not close to everything it just helps).

schuylaar said:

awwwwwwwwww, cando..

yeah, i do have a life other than our political forum.

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oh no. Having a life is visiting the hallicinogenics forum?

sometime, in the dark, when I am alone with my most private thought and remembrances, I worry about you.

but, sorry, those mushrooms are pretty nondiscript. Could be, but prolly not.

canndo said:

, those mushrooms are pretty nondiscript. Could be, but prolly not.

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thats pretty much what I was thinking. Hell if your lucky enough to have a patch of actives in your front yard I'm coming to visit!

I love mushrooms (to eat), but I don't fuck with unknown varieties anymore.

Turns out I have a severe allergy to "mycoprotein" which is an ingredient in Quorn vegetarian products. It's derived from "fusarium venenatum", and apx 1 in 100,000 people have severe reactions to it ...... including me. Holy shit balls! I thought I was going to die when I ate that stuff.

Its not a cubensis! I see some exactly like that in my yard also.
Are you a future homemade mycologist?

because it is not cubensis does not mean they are not pschoactive. There are hundreds of psylocybian mushrooms of low potency or very high.

also, few mushrooms are poisonous, as few are tasty.

still, even if you know exactly what you are doing you could get into trouble.

there are countless stories of knowledgeable folk getting sick or dying by accidentaly picking a companion species, picking in a region where they are inadequately prepared, mistaking one mushroom that looks like another in a different growth state and the like.

few but the most distinctive can be identified by pictures on the internet.

cubensis and azures are about the only two psychoactives I might hazard to identify that way.

boletus, shaggy manes and oysters are about the extent of the choice ones, maybe, maybe chanterelles.

Definitely do not eat those. They are not cubes. I found those exact ones near an outside grow I had.

Cubes will have remnants of the veil on the stem. And there will drop dark purple spores.

100% not cubies!

If they dont stain blue , then it's not worth asking

LIBERTYCHICKEN said:

If they dont stain blue , then it's not worth asking

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Thats the way I've been looking at it. Its fun to find them either way, but no blue= no attention.

Thundercat said:

Thats the way I've been looking at it. Its fun to find them either way, but no blue= no attention.

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blue? i'm a newbie..but i checked out a coupla places for spores..truck down to whole foods for wheat berries and you guys know the rest!

Yeah many active species will turn blue in the stems when you bruise or damage them. There are also some non actives that will so its not a guarantee but its a really good place to start.

some turn green, some of the smaller ones will not bruise blue at all.

Can anyone recommend a good color photo handbook for wild mushroom identification?

Petersons field guides

the shroomery also has some documents of interest of ID's

The maxium of mushrooms is if your not 100% sure , then dont eat it. Their are some good forageing classes around