[Required] Read before posting an ID request
1.) Did you buy your mushrooms from a dealer/were they grown?
Compare to these:
Psilocybe cubensis (the most commonly sold species of "Shrooms")
The blue bruising is from Psilocin oxidation, not mold.
If your mushrooms were bought from a dealer take them out of the bag. Posts of mushrooms in bags will be deleted. Also all pictures asking for weights will be deleted.
2.) Did you hunt or find your mushrooms?
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Do they have tubes or pores under the cap? ........Not active (it doesn't matter if they bruise blue)
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Do they have [gills](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamella_(mycology)? .............3
3.) Are the gills white, grey, pink or green?....................Not psychoactive
4.) Are the gills brown, black or rust colored?.................5
5.) Spore print color jet black, brown, rusty orange or black with purple tints ........................7
6.) All other spore print colors........................ Not active
7.) Mature mushroom is deliquescing, (turning into ink)...........Not active, Coprinoid.
8.) Mushrooms bruise blue when damaged, sometimes faintly or only at the base................Post for an ID.
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Take a picture of the mushroom in situ (before you pick it)
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Post a picture of the cap, gills, stem and base
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List the habitat (grass, dung, forest, wood chips on wood etc, and the trees nearby)
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List the location (a general geographic area is usually sufficient)
Also don't ask how much it weighs, buy a scale or make one from common household objects.
Going Hunting? Use these links
Which Mushrooms Grow in My Area?
Shroomery's Gide to Psilocybin Species
Posted Jan 12, 2017, 5:38 AM UTC · edited