psilocybin Mushroom in calli

[Clusterone666]

Ok so i'm trying to be safe, but i got gooms from someone before and i had them and tripped, and today while walking home i saw the same gooms in the grass, and i picked one (not to eat to look up online) And what i was wondering is what mushrooms (psychedelic of course and not deadly) grow in southern callifornia?
Just trying to be safe :D (no camera though just a phone, i'll upload pics if someone tells me how)
Thank you

 

[toomuchtv]

DO NOT EAT ANY MUSHROOM YOU ARE NOT 100% SURE OF THE IDENTIFICATION.

THERE ARE MANY LOOK-A-LIKE MUSHROOMS THAT CAN MAKE YOU VERY SICK AND EVEN KILL YOU.

If you don't know what you have, take it to a real expert. It is very difficult to get a 100% accurate identification of mushrooms using just a picture.

I suggest you join a local mushroom club to meet some experts and learn for yourself if you are really interested in learning to identify mushrooms.

 

[Clusterone666]

DO NOT EAT ANY MUSHROOM YOU ARE NOT 100% SURE OF THE IDENTIFICATION.

THERE ARE MANY LOOK-A-LIKE MUSHROOMS THAT CAN MAKE YOU VERY SICK AND EVEN KILL YOU.

If you don't know what you have, take it to a real expert. It is very difficult to get a 100% accurate identification of mushrooms using just a picture.

I suggest you join a local mushroom club to meet some experts and learn for yourself if you are really interested in learning to identify mushrooms.

Ya trust me i know, i have a friend that got sick off that, and i am smart about it, which is why i was asking on here, and there is none down here none that i can find anyway, and i would get the spore print and everything, there are HUNDREDS of these same mushrooms growing, so i would make sure. But ok thank you for the help I'm still looking for clubs though XP but no one in calli (southern) really does mushrooms sadly

 

[greenmeanies]

were the ones your friend got you dried? like toomuchtv said, unless you have LOTS of experience identifying, there is no way to be sure. there are thousands of unidentified "little brown mushrooms" species that all kinda look the same, especially when dry.

as for what you ARE looking for, psilocybe cubensis (the most common home-grown species) can be found on cow patties or cow-fertilized grassland in warm weather after a rain. this species grows in this habitat across the globe, from thailand to texas. if you have experience with the climate and timing of this species, it can be a fairly predictable one to look for, although there are tons of "strains" that can exhibit a wide variety of morphological characteristics, depending on growing conditions and genetics.

in cooler climates you may find psilocybes of the woodlover family (cyanescens, azurescens, subaeruginosa) but they typically fruit during the cool fall months. beware, the common galerina can look almost identical to the woodloving psilocybes, and can even grow right next to them. but instead of tripping, you will die.

liberty caps (psilocybe semilanceata) are also a common temperate species, common to pasture grass.

in tropical climates you may find dung-loving panaeolus species after a rain.

with all of the above species, blue bruising may be noted, but is BY NO MEANS a positive identifier. likewise, active species may display zero blue reaction. if your friend went hunting in the wild for his booms, ask him to take you one time so he can show you the ropes. mushroom identification is part science, part art. good hunters say they can identify by smell, but for me it's mostly texture in the PNW.


EDIT: if there are hundreds growing and the spot is in a public location, then it's probably NOT active, because there are plenty of people like you looking out for these guys the best sign that you found an active patch is the telltale evidence of inexperienced pickers who grab handfulls of soil with their harvest, destroying the patch.

 

[Clusterone666]

were the ones your friend got you dried? like toomuchtv said, unless you have LOTS of experience identifying, there is no way to be sure. there are thousands of unidentified "little brown mushrooms" species that all kinda look the same, especially when dry.

as for what you ARE looking for, psilocybe cubensis (the most common home-grown species) can be found on cow patties or cow-fertilized grassland in warm weather after a rain. this species grows in this habitat across the globe, from thailand to texas. if you have experience with the climate and timing of this species, it can be a fairly predictable one to look for, although there are tons of "strains" that can exhibit a wide variety of morphological characteristics, depending on growing conditions and genetics.

in cooler climates you may find psilocybes of the woodlover family (cyanescens, azurescens, subaeruginosa) but they typically fruit during the cool fall months. beware, the common galerina can look almost identical to the woodloving psilocybes, and can even grow right next to them. but instead of tripping, you will die.

liberty caps (psilocybe semilanceata) are also a common temperate species, common to pasture grass.

in tropical climates you may find dung-loving panaeolus species after a rain.

with all of the above species, blue bruising may be noted, but is BY NO MEANS a positive identifier. likewise, active species may display zero blue reaction. if your friend went hunting in the wild for his booms, ask him to take you one time so he can show you the ropes. mushroom identification is part science, part art. good hunters say they can identify by smell, but for me it's mostly texture in the PNW.


EDIT: if there are hundreds growing and the spot is in a public location, then it's probably NOT active, because there are plenty of people like you looking out for these guys the best sign that you found an active patch is the telltale evidence of inexperienced pickers who grab handfulls of soil with their harvest, destroying the patch.

I won't lie, my friend isn't the smartest person, so he didn't know what he was doing (i had no part in that, in fact i told him not to lol) and ok, i might just wait till i can find someone to help me out with that Thank's you can close the thread

 

[moonyham]

I dont know why people are such nazi's when it comes to mushroom identification. I understand that, obviously if you fuck up you can die.. but wasnt ISNT deadly if you fuck up in life? Walking/running? Swimming? Eating? Driving? Taking any drug at all?

Anyway, i started mushy hunting after my first trip a couple years ago and its really easy to pick up the ropes i found. I first off went to 'the shroomery', google it, its great. Then i simply studied magic mushrooms extensively for a week, and heres what i came up with:

Step 1: Pinch the edge of the mushroom. It should bruise blue within a minute. This is the best method for you to figure out if they are 'magic' or not. There are (aparently) species that turn blue that arent magic but, thats why you do the next following things.

Step 2: Look around and look at the habitat its growing in, make a written or mental note of it. Each kind of mushroom, magic or not, generally has a habitat they grow in. There are exceptions to this, of course, but generally, they do only stay in a certain habitat. For example, Cubensis will grow on/near cow shit.

Step 3: How is it growing? Is it growing off a piece of dead/alive wood? Is it in a cluster or just by itself? Again, each type of mushroom has its own growing methods.. some only grow off dead wood, or near it, some need/flourish in pine needles. Some grow in clusters, some dont.

Step 4: Take a spore print. Is it red/black/green/any color other than purple-ish? Cause its purple that you want.

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When you find a mushroom, pinch the edge of the cap. If it turns blue, chuck it in the 'most likely' bag. When you get home, you simply scan through the most popular forms of magic mushrooms in your area/habitat you found it, and find the one that looks like yours. Check that all the statistics are matching etc, like if it grows in clusters and so on.

If it matches? Then its passed my test, and its ready to chomp down!

Oh and, its good for beginners to take a GOOD picture of the mushroom(s) they suspect of being magic and take them and post them at the identification part of the shroomery.

Cheers.

 

[elroy44]

Being from southern california as well, I'd say you probably bought "California Gold Caps", which is just a drug dealer name for psilocybin cubensis. Definitely be careful with shrooms you find on the ground though, there are lots of shrooms that look a lot like cubensis but aren't.