🍄 Gardening 🍄 Psilo or pseudo?

[F.U.B.A.R.]

This little fella suddenly appeared on my lawn today.

It looks suspiciously like a Liberty cap in dry conditions, which you don't see very often (plus it's only august).

What do you guys think?

Don't worry, I'm not going to eat it (there's only one), but I'm not gonna mow the lawn for a while now...









Edit: Nah, it's definitely not a Lib. Found a few more and studied them closely. Very similar, but without any blueing on the stem and the gills are a lighter brown than libs.

Oh well...

 

[Bleaney]

Definitely looks a lot like liberty cap. Agrre about the dry condions, but I think August is the start of their season. I remember my first time picking and eating them was on O level results day. So, around the 3rd week of August, and there seemed to quite rich pickings on that day IIRC.

Might be worth trying to keep your lawn as damp as possible to encourage more growth. That would be pretty handy to have a crop growing so close to say the least.

 

[F.U.B.A.R.]

Definitely looks a lot like liberty cap. Agrre about the dry condions, but I think August is the start of their season. I remember my first time picking and eating them was on O level results day. So, around the 3rd week of August, and there seemed to quite rich pickings on that day IIRC.

Might be worth trying to keep your lawn as damp as possible to encourage more growth. That would be pretty handy to have a crop growing so close to say the least.

I've negatively IDd them now. Shame...

 

[kiely]

i looked at it close but i haven't seen it though


. . . but i think it likes you

 

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[kiely]

 

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[emkee_reinvented]

This little fella suddenly appeared on my lawn today.

It looks suspiciously like a Liberty cap in dry conditions, which you don't see very often (plus it's only august).

What do you guys think?

Don't worry, I'm not going to eat it (there's only one), but I'm not gonna mow the lawn for a while now...




Edit: Nah, it's definitely not a Lib. Found a few more and studied them closely. Very similar, but without any blueing on the stem and the gills are a lighter brown than libs.

Oh well...

Seen look a likes too, not the ones on your pic but they also very much resembled Psilocybe Semilanceata.
Though the stem dindt turn purple when broken. Dont no if thats a reliable way to check btw.
Now I would use a app on my phone, and even then I would ask an expert opinion before ingesting some.

Then I didnt even have clue which season/ circumstances or locations te could show up, just surched the sheeps grazing fields.
But the one I found was a 'false' Liberty Cap called Grass Bold Head (last 2 words a direct Dutch translation as the taxinomic name ?)

They dont contain Psilocybine, but a substance that makes you puke.

But were i live there is essentially only one dangerous shroom, the green and purple or blue Amanita phalloides.
Only Deadly one overhere till now, and related to Amanita Muscaria. Which as kid was always portayed as deadly and dangerous.
Maybe the reason they thought all Amanitas where deadly where the Phalloides.

The Muscaria later on appeared not so dangerous reading the first story's on i-net.
It actually contains a quite interesting unique substance when prepared right.
Thats one i would like to try, and though they are protected, grow everywhere at the right moment.

 

[Bleaney]

It shows how easy it can be to get this wrong. I put the slight differences down to the shroom in your pic being dryer than normal.

I thought I could be certain of making a correct identification, but I'm not quite so confident now. Attention to detail is so critical. Now I know your pic isnt a liberty cap it seems more obvious that the teet isnt as pronounces as normal, the stem seems a bit thicker than normal, and its not curved either.

Colouration would probably be one of the best indicators too, looking for that bluey grey tinge that is not there in your pic. Although like I say I was thrown off by the dryness, and thought that might also have explained why it looked more dehydrated than they normally do.

 

[ageingpartyfiend]

Colouration would probably be one of the best indicators too, looking for that bluey grey tinge that is not there in your pic. Although like I say I was thrown off by the dryness, and thought that might also have explained why it looked more dehydrated than they normally do.

yeah me too, looked like a superdry Lib at first glance, then not so much

it's difficult from a pic too, but I find them very easy to recognise irl

 

[F.U.B.A.R.]

yeah me too, looked like a superdry Lib at first glance, then not so much

it's difficult from a pic too, but I find them very easy to recognise irl

I've always said "if in doubt, leave it out", and I certainly had my doubts about the one I pictured. But I've never seen these before, and found the similarity striking. I didn't want to pick it to study it closely, as I only found one at first and didn't want to spoil its chances of reproducing, just in case.

When I found some more and picked one, it was an obvious pseudo.


Definitely more a case of wishful thinking on my part...

 

[Nas47]

too dry to made right decission,but probably not liberty cap.the season here starts around October,but in places with more wet conditions like U.K. or even in another one our mountain,which is wetter and watery mountain start in the end of August....may be because of climate change and very prolonged summer,almost without autumn here my last mushroom hunt was 2022 and i found a little.......changes are visible around me in everything....nature,people....perception....it does not look good