The northeast USA just had the wettest July in history and now the shroom-fest has begun! They’re coming up everywhere…being a stoner I naturally wonder “are they magic mushrooms - can I eat them” but of course I have no idea WTF I’m doing!
oops, looks like we already had a thread on this…so maybe this topic can focus on New England? @NEK-Fowldog knows what he’s doing and had some nice pics from Vermont
The third pic could be cinctulus. Take a print on black paper. If it looks dark brown it’s pan foenicseii. Cinctulus will be a purple black spore print
thanks! so it’s the brown umbrella-looking ones - these are very common on my walks, that would be awesome if they’re magic, will have to read up on doing spore prints - there is a big group of these growing right now in the grass clippings in my yard, going to pick one now…
so you basically leave the cap on a piece of paper overnight - got it!
Yep, and put a cup over it. If it won’t drop spores put a drop of water on the top of the cap the foen and cinct look so close the only way to tell apart is a print.
Done a lot of shrooms in Belfast late 90’s lol sep-oct mushroom season could go up the field with a big bag and fill it,we make tea out of them tripping balls in the middle of the street,cars burning from all the riots
Didn’t do a lot when I moved to cali had a free use to grow them in fish tanks,he did far to many of them had to move home lol
took another walk with the camera yesterday, I’m learning a lot. The shrooms change on a daily basis as they go through senescence - also the critters are devouring them, there were several patches of neon-orange shrooms that disappeared completely overnight, I think they were Jack O’Lanterns.
All the ones I thought were Panaeulus Cinctulus vanished overnight, either from humans or critters. Found some red ones that are cool-looking:
these big white ones are amazing - they’re 6-inches across and have a big hole in the middle - everything is eating them, didn’t notice a big slug eating away until I got home & looked at the pictures: