are these liberty caps?
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skiskate
Well-Known Member
If you dont know how to do one just dont eat the shrooms. Only people experienced with mushrooms should pic their own. Go ahead eat them if you trust yourself with your life. If you make a bad i.d have fun projectile vomiting.
Shpongle Spores
Active Member
Taken from fungaljungal:
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Taking a spore print is easy, fun and an important part of mushroom identification.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Mushroom guide books will list the spore color for the mushroom in question, and to be sure that you have the right species always take a spore print as part of your identification procedure (at least until you are positive of identification for the mushroom in question).[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Even experts take spore prints of mushrooms they are trying to identify. Spore color remains fairly constant for each mushroom species and is not as affected by environmental changes as other mushroom features often are.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Many mushrooms that have a similar appearance can be distinguished by the color of their spores, so always check the spore color. This is especially important, of course, if the goal is a mushroom dish for dinner![/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] A spore print will reveal the color of the spores as a mass. Sometimes they are the same color as the mature gills and sometimes they are a different color.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] To take a spore print, cut off the mushroom stem (stipe) and place the mushroom with the gills down on a piece of plain white paper. Always use white paper because dark paper will conceal some color variations in the spores. You can even use the back of this paper![/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Cover the mushroom with a bowl so that air currents wont blow away the spores. In from 2 to 6 hours the spores fall out and leave a beautiful impression of the underside of the mushroom displaying the color of the spores.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] It is always best to use fresh mushrooms that are not too dried out, or too old or too mushy to get a good spore print. If the spores are light in color, hold your paper at an angle to the light to better see the color.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Mushrooms that don't have gills, such as boletes and chanterelles, can also be tested in this way, but they are harder to lay out flat on the paper. You may wish to wrap oddly shaped mushrooms in a cone of paper or tin foil to take their spore print.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] It takes some practice and experience to begin to know what color the spores are and how that color is described in field guides. If a guide book says the spores are pink, that doesn't mean the latest shade of a hot nail polish, but more like a salmon color. Compare the spores from a number of mushroom species to get a feel for the subtle color variations. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] A fun activity is to make mushroom spore greeting cards. Use white construction paper cut to card size. Take the spore print as described above, then cover it with clear, self-adhesive plastic. Send a card to your local Mycological Association, or to the US Postal Service requesting them to commission an official US mushroom postage stamp!
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]I believe what you want is a purple colored spore print, also when you break a stem look for bluing of it. If you get a brown spore print pretty sure you can label it unsafe. but a purple spore print with bluing of the stem and i think you're good to go. but you should also do a little more research for you're decision cause I don't wanna have someone's death on my conscience if i'm wrong.
[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Taking a spore print is easy, fun and an important part of mushroom identification.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Mushroom guide books will list the spore color for the mushroom in question, and to be sure that you have the right species always take a spore print as part of your identification procedure (at least until you are positive of identification for the mushroom in question).[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Even experts take spore prints of mushrooms they are trying to identify. Spore color remains fairly constant for each mushroom species and is not as affected by environmental changes as other mushroom features often are.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Many mushrooms that have a similar appearance can be distinguished by the color of their spores, so always check the spore color. This is especially important, of course, if the goal is a mushroom dish for dinner![/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] A spore print will reveal the color of the spores as a mass. Sometimes they are the same color as the mature gills and sometimes they are a different color.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] To take a spore print, cut off the mushroom stem (stipe) and place the mushroom with the gills down on a piece of plain white paper. Always use white paper because dark paper will conceal some color variations in the spores. You can even use the back of this paper![/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Cover the mushroom with a bowl so that air currents wont blow away the spores. In from 2 to 6 hours the spores fall out and leave a beautiful impression of the underside of the mushroom displaying the color of the spores.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] It is always best to use fresh mushrooms that are not too dried out, or too old or too mushy to get a good spore print. If the spores are light in color, hold your paper at an angle to the light to better see the color.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Mushrooms that don't have gills, such as boletes and chanterelles, can also be tested in this way, but they are harder to lay out flat on the paper. You may wish to wrap oddly shaped mushrooms in a cone of paper or tin foil to take their spore print.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] It takes some practice and experience to begin to know what color the spores are and how that color is described in field guides. If a guide book says the spores are pink, that doesn't mean the latest shade of a hot nail polish, but more like a salmon color. Compare the spores from a number of mushroom species to get a feel for the subtle color variations. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] A fun activity is to make mushroom spore greeting cards. Use white construction paper cut to card size. Take the spore print as described above, then cover it with clear, self-adhesive plastic. Send a card to your local Mycological Association, or to the US Postal Service requesting them to commission an official US mushroom postage stamp!
[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]I believe what you want is a purple colored spore print, also when you break a stem look for bluing of it. If you get a brown spore print pretty sure you can label it unsafe. but a purple spore print with bluing of the stem and i think you're good to go. but you should also do a little more research for you're decision cause I don't wanna have someone's death on my conscience if i'm wrong.
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uk WeeD
Well-Known Member
most of em look like the first few pics here
http://www.mushrooms.org.uk/displayprods.asp?sid=98&qdbquery=searchprodbysubcat&qtitle=Psilocybe+Semilanceata
like i said im 99% sure they are libertys since theres some bloke who lives round my way who always comes back with bagfuls of em, whats the worst that could happen? im sick everywhere- great, shit happens, they aint gonna kill me since theres only 3-4 deadly shrooms in the uk - what i got aint them.
cheers btw for the link shpongle spores
http://www.mushrooms.org.uk/displayprods.asp?sid=98&qdbquery=searchprodbysubcat&qtitle=Psilocybe+Semilanceata
like i said im 99% sure they are libertys since theres some bloke who lives round my way who always comes back with bagfuls of em, whats the worst that could happen? im sick everywhere- great, shit happens, they aint gonna kill me since theres only 3-4 deadly shrooms in the uk - what i got aint them.
cheers btw for the link shpongle spores
shepj
Oracle of Hallucinogens
I can pick a poisonous mushroom off of my yard and sell it an psilocybin. I hope you mean if he bought them off of a reputable online vendor?
Shpongle Spores
Active Member
well if you end up doing a spore print or consume them let us know how it goes down. If they are liberty caps, good find!
buggs bunny
Well-Known Member
they look like the right ones to me,double check and grab the top of one and try to rip it in half slowly if it has a streachy slime on top then its a good one,if it just breaks its a fake or ones that arent good.
this is just advice from when i did it with a friend that taught me what to look for and worked great,but by no means take this lightly,it has to be like this or their wrong
i just lokked at them again,they have the tit on the point im most positive there the real deal,ive taken these over ten timess so i know you wont die,put a small handfull per person and boil in a small amount of water and then let cool down,this is to kill the yukies then slam the water and shrooms like cheap booze,and have fun
this is just advice from when i did it with a friend that taught me what to look for and worked great,but by no means take this lightly,it has to be like this or their wrong
i just lokked at them again,they have the tit on the point im most positive there the real deal,ive taken these over ten timess so i know you wont die,put a small handfull per person and boil in a small amount of water and then let cool down,this is to kill the yukies then slam the water and shrooms like cheap booze,and have fun
that's right and if the stem turns blue were it was bruised that's another indicator.
11/7/08firstgrow420
New Member
they are liberty cap look alikes they were probaly picked ina cow feild i used to sell those and that happend sometimes but i picked em out
11/7/08firstgrow420
New Member
look alikes wont kill you
lolShpongle Spores
Active Member
I watched a speech given by Paul Stamets pretty recently and I believe he said If there is blue bruising of the stem (though i don't think liberty caps bruise blue very readily, sorry 
) and a spore print comes out purple, you got yourself an edible mushroom. may not be psychoactive, but non-poisonous either.
) and a spore print comes out purple, you got yourself an edible mushroom. may not be psychoactive, but non-poisonous either.
shepj
Oracle of Hallucinogens
I hope this is a joke.. if you need to know why ^ is wrong, google Amanita Muscaria... almost all of its look-alikes are highly toxic.
uk WeeD
Well-Known Member
http://www.exchangesupplies.org/drug_information/what_and_why/magic_mushrooms/ww_magic_mushrooms.html
im still here after munching 70 odd caps last night.....
Shpongle Spores
Active Member
I read that link. PLease no one waste good shrooms in a joint. please.
and 70 caps? ~_^
and 70 caps? ~_^
shepj
Oracle of Hallucinogens
if you peel the skins off they are very enjoyable to smoke w/ marijuana.
^ smoking the skins I mean