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Liberty caps in a forest, a rare find
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It's a well known rule that liberty caps don't grow in forests, but it seems like this rule doesn't apply to me. :wink:
This is the third time in 10 years time I find liberty caps when I'm walking in this habitat. The other times I have found one or two, but this time was a jackpot.

So... I was out walking on a path in a pine forest. There was a clear cut here a few years ago but now it's mostly forest grass, young birch, raspberry bushes and so on... Horses walk by perhaps a couple of times a week.

Liberty caps favourite grass Deschampsia cespitosa is growing at both sides of the path, and since I know this, I look down in the center of the turfs and suddenly spot a white cap. My first thought was Stropharia semiglobata, a much more common find, but when I took a closer look I saw the nipples! :mushroom2:

I found about 7 Deschampsia cespitosa's with mushrooms, one of them was very good as you can see. :wink:

Sorry about the bad photo quality, I was only carrying my mobile phone with me.



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Re: Liberty caps in a forest, a rare find [Re: knarkkorven]
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Nice one Knarkkorven, well there is grass there and if the conditions are right and there are spores around why not? Great ! Not typical though thats for sure.

Myself I have never found them away from animal pasture, although supposedly they grow in thousands on golf courses and playing fields in some places. never been lucky to find them on a man made landscape yet here.

Nice to know that we can keep our eyes out all over the place, maybe they are adapting and evolving to new places ? Lets hope so.

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Re: Liberty caps in a forest, a rare find [Re: Sobercolober]
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Today I went to the pasture that produced over 1000 liberty caps last year without finding a single one.

Freaky nature! :smile:


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Re: Liberty caps in a forest, a rare find [Re: knarkkorven]
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Da fuq?
Thanks for posting this up, very cool!


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Re: Liberty caps in a forest, a rare find [Re: knarkkorven]
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Great find! Are there any pastures nearby? Two spots I visit annually are connected
by a forest trail very similar to yours, and I have occasionally found the odd one growing
there. I guess the trail is used for guiding the sheep between the pastures.


knarkkorven said:
Today I went to the pasture that produced over 1000 liberty caps last year without finding a single one.

Freaky nature! :smile:


I had the same experience last year. I discovered a new spot in 2011 that was producing
hilarious amounts in a span of just two weeks, I guess I must have picked more than 2000
in 3 separate forays, still there were loads left. The next year it fruited much later, in good
amounts but nowhere near the previous year.





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Re: Liberty caps in a forest, a rare find [Re: Anglerfish]
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Wow, that's an awesome find. How deep in the forest was this?

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Re: Liberty caps in a forest, a rare find [Re: Anglerfish]
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From what I understand about the life cycle of liberty caps, they need a grass or bunch grass to grow.... Can't recall the details... But as long as there is grass, then pasture, forest, lawn... Seems possible.... I found them once in the grass of a low mountain pass rest area...

A few years ago some one posted on here a great white paper on the life cycle of liberty caps... Was very educational.... Would enjoy reading it again


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Re: Liberty caps in a forest, a rare find [Re: HarryL]
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Great find! Are there any pastures nearby?


Not for several kilometers. But as I said, horses walk there. Dung was present further down the path.

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How deep in the forest was this?


200m from a residential area.

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as long as there is grass, then pasture, forest, lawn... Seems possible....


It's not this simple. Liberty caps don't grow from every grass species. For example, liberty caps in ordinary lawns is  very rare, like 1 in a 100 lawns or even less. When it happens it's often lawns that used to bee pastures, are located right by a pasture, is fertilized with manure, or is cut with a lawn mower that mows community/company lawns all week long and effectively spread spores.

Over the years I have found that Deschampsia cespitosa is a preferred grass species. And the moss Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus is also highly associated with good habitats, it's almost always present and often mycelia attach directly to it, perhaps as a source of water.


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Re: Liberty caps in a forest, a rare find [Re: knarkkorven]
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sick find :super:


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Re: Liberty caps in a forest, a rare find [Re: Blazer420]
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And they keep coming... And one was even sterile, what is the probability of finding a sterile liberty cap in this habitat? I don't think I ever will do it again.



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Re: Liberty caps in a forest, a rare find [Re: knarkkorven]
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I tend to disagree knarkkorven, liberty caps are quite common to residential lawns, ball fields, graveyards, etc...
At least they are in my region!!

Happy hunting!!


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Re: Liberty caps in a forest, a rare find [Re: wolfedawwg]
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And since the last update I have found two new separate places far from this spot (but same kind of habitat and in Deschampsia cespitosa of course) and one liberty cap in each find.



wolfedawwg: ok. It's the opposite here, almost never in villa lawns, It's so rare I have only witnessed it twice.

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Re: Liberty caps in a forest, a rare find [Re: knarkkorven]
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I have also few liberty cap spots in forests. All of those have some Deschampsia cespitosa growing near some paths.

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Re: Liberty caps in a forest, a rare find [Re: Kukka]
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That's so cool huh?

I found my first libs ever in a beautiful forest clearing that had some grass along the edges.
The clearing was frequently visited by rabbits because i saw many droppings in between the short grass and the mushrooms :smile:

I had one of the best trips of my life on those shrooms. The magical location i found them did the trick i'm sure :smile:

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Re: Liberty caps in a forest, a rare find [Re: knarkkorven]
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Here we go again! :smile:

The first documented find for Sweden 2014. Found in the same spot/habitat as last years first find.
I was riding by bike along the forest path and the thunder was roaring in the background as I found them. I dedicate the find to Thor!

26C with high humidity today. It has been very warm the last 2 weeks, but we had a couple of nights with temperatures around 15-16C this week. 

3 of the liberty caps was growing in a cluster which is quite unusual.



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Re: Liberty caps in a forest, a rare find [Re: knarkkorven]
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:hatsoff:


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Re: Liberty caps in a forest, a rare find [Re: Joie]
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:congrats::willynilly:

Those are so pretty!


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Re: Liberty caps in a forest, a rare find [Re: Joust]
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Omg it begins :leafromp:


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Re: Liberty caps in a forest, a rare find [Re: rhizoRider]
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Wow nice, then i'm going to check my spots very soon.


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Re: Liberty caps in a forest, a rare find [Re: Maido]
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I watched some video online of someone hunting Lib caps by following deer around.  Apparently, they grow near deer dung. ::shrug::

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