ArrOgNt RocKstAR
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I found these growing next to my tomatoes, and just wondering if they could be the magic kind?
Can anyone identify these mushrooms?
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Phytoplankton
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Identifying mushrooms from a picture of the top of the cap is pretty much impossible (and dangerous), with a few notable exceptions. Normally a "magic" mushroom will turn a blue-green color if the cap or stipe is bruised.
conor c
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Honestly best place to post and ask for identifications and stuff in my opinion is the shroomery bud the HS board on here's a slow board kinda
ArrOgNt RocKstAR
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Thanks guys. Yes, I definitely wouldnt risk eating it unless 100% sure, which i am not.
conor c
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Yeah gotta be sure mate I wouldn't want you to poison yourself the easiest magic shrooms to identify are the obvious liberty caps or slightly lesser known wax caps that grow in the woods just be sure not to confuse them with galerina those are deadly but if your not sure definitely ask shroomery they guys know there stuff
canndo
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Buy yourself a regional key and follow it closely. Even after you believe you have positively identified your species, try to get confirmation from a local forager. Failing that, leave a sample mushroom on your kitchen table before you taste one. And I mean TASTE. Few mushrooms are poisonous to the point of fatality but mushrooms can make you sick. Some even react to other things you have recently consumed. There is at least one species that will not make you sick unless you have had alcohol first.
Oh.. the sample on the table is for first responders and doctors can identify what you ate
Good luck.
SnidleyBluntash
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Just why eat a strange unknown mushroom. Too risky.
canndo
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Some are very very tasty. And of course there are some that are unmistakable like shaggy manes and puff balls. (Save for the fact that a young death cap can look like a puff ball. Of course all you have to do is cut it in half lengthwise. If there is an outline of a traditional mushroom in the center...don't eat it.
Dear mushrooms and horse mushrooms and morels are easily identified as well.
(There is a "false morel" but it's pretty obvious upon closer examination.
MAD.SCIENTIST
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They look like some sort of agaric mushroom. Not psychedelic.
I've had ink caps grow in my soil a couple of times in the past but nothing else, despite burying spent cubensis pf cakes in that soil
I've had ink caps grow in my soil a couple of times in the past but nothing else, despite burying spent cubensis pf cakes in that soil
Phytoplankton
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I took a a college mycology course (albeit 40 years ago), and I still have trouble identifying mushrooms even with a key. Here's one of the things that stuck in my head: If you eat a mushroom and get sick 2-4 hours later, your probably gonna be fine, if you eat a mushroom and get sick 6-12 later you're gonna be real sick and will probably survive, if you eat a mushroom and get sick 24-28 hours later, get your affairs in order!! The other thing to remember,: "There are old mushroom hunters, and there are bold mushroom hunter, but there are no old, bold, mushroom hunters".
conor c
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True but none are so deadly you can't at least taste them luckily course it is a different story about swallowing it though but you are right though there is so many different types and sub species misidentification can be easy and we aint even found and classified half of it as well i think so when in doubt leave it out your right there are no old bold shroom hunters that's the truth right there
ArrOgNt RocKstAR
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Thanks gentlemen. Im definitely not bold enough to try eating them.