Here’s a better picture of what I picked this morning. Field has cows all year round and has been very misty and raining on and off the last few days. Found in Buckinghamshire. U.K. can anyone ID them ? I have a cap under glass on paper for a spore print so will have that tomorrow

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Here’s a better picture of what I picked this morning. Field has cows all year round and has been very misty and raining on and off the last few days. Found in Buckinghamshire. U.K. can anyone ID them ? I have a cap under glass on paper for a spore print so will have that tomorrow

Posted Aug 17, 2020, 10:29 AM UTC

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Sinfull517•

No blue brusing 😟 (sad hippie noise )

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TomCalJackOP•

There freshly picked and still wet in this picture. Or do they go blue straight away ? I’ve been looking at Cyanescens pics and the ones in the field that I left and didn’t pick cos they looked nasty maybe stepped on by the cows but looked like they had the cracks at the side and wanted to go wavey and has the big flying saucer pimple on top middle and also just generally looks very similar but I’m a noob at this and maybe there are others that look the same but are different

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Sinfull517•

Pan cyans are much darker and yes they go blue pretty fast (oxidation ) take a spore print and see (again blueish black )

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franklins-trippin•

Not magic. Sorry bro

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badunga28•

They don't look like psilos to me, but i could be wrong.

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LittlePharma42•

If you're looking for liberty caps, this is a good guide:

IS THIS A LIBERTY CAP OR NOT? ASK YOURSELF...

APPEARANCE: STEM •Thin, straight, slightly kinked or Wavy stem. • Stem same thickness all the way down and up, stem must not have a bulbous base. • Stem not hollow • Stem not brittle • There may be a purple ring on the stipe (stem) where spores have dropped and stuck, but otherwise the stem must be bare with no other features. • Stem same colour as cap • Stem does not typically go blue upon picking.

APPEARANCE: CAP • Conical, like a cone but with a non pointy top. • Cap never flat, even on older specimens. • Translucent, large, prominent nipple on the top (Like an unwrinkled Areola and nipple) • Mucousy top when damp or rainy weather, slightly slippery but not super gooey. Like the texture of the flesh of a cut cucumber. If its goopy like the centre of a cucumber that's not what you're looking for. • Cap small, at most the size of your thumbnail. • stems can be long, but the whole mushroom should sit comfortably small in the palm of your hand. • The cap appears to have faint vertical stripes that run down the cap, almost making it appear ribbed. This is because the cap is slightly translucent. The cap is less translucent in drier weather. • Many gills under the mushroom cap, tightly crowded and that appear very purple or black • Dark purple/brown spores •The edges of the skirt (the edges of the cap itself) curl inwards towards the stem. •The edges of the skirt may also be slightly purpled due to spores. •The cap changes colour depending on how moist it is. Always on the spectrum of creamy pale brown, like tea with milk colour, or slightly darker but rarely paper bag brown. • Cap can be pale brown with mildly orange tinges, sometimes so pale brown as to appear slightly cream coloured, but never bright bleach white, never bright red or orange. • The cap must not be dry or appear cracked. • The cap must not have crackles, scales, shagginess, shedding, spots, lumps or any other features other than the nipple and slightly ribbed. • The cap does not typically bruise blue upon picking.

WHERE AND WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES: • Found in exposed fields and meadows, not forests. • Found generally in short grass. Typical in cattle fields where the animals eat the grass therefore making it short and mown. Also golf courses. • Never found under trees, in leaf litter or on decaying wood. NEVER. • Never grow directly in dung- the mycelium that produces these mushrooms mainly feed on decaying grass roots, not poo. There are other psychoactive species that grow in dung specifically, but they are not libs. • Found after cold days, typically between 5-10°C, never below freezing. Typically not in high wind. • Found best on higher humidity days with more moisture and overcast skies, rain mist and drizzle. • Mushrooms present alone but in similar area (not in close clusters where they touch each other, like a punnet of mushrooms from the shop) • Generally found around September October time, but with global warming and all, precise guidance as to time is hard to give. •Ground at higher elevation will be cooler, so higher ground may sprout mushrooms before lower ground.

If anyone has any corrections please do say, I'm trying to refine a written guide to help people so any corrections are appreciated!

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Sparks_0•

Looks like hay mowers mushrooms

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