Psilocybe semilanceata is a root mushroom and the mycelium attaches itself to several varieties of grasses at the roots. and they need a certain amount of time to grow, which usually lasts at lesrt 6-8 months in a field.

If there were any in the spring it would be late may and only in well manicured lawns that are treated with constant fertilizers
and perpetual lawn care.

Just where do you live Mr. McFFace?

Sedge grass is a good example and yes they can grow in lawns but Their season is from later June-July to december and sometines into January. you can think all you want that you have picked them. I do not see any photographs to show otherwise and so I doubt your finds.

Its botanically impossible.

They are always gone before February is over.
If they did grow now everyone would be picking them period.

I am not going to get into a rant with you or anyone who doubts it but those are the facts.

Mj

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So, the occaisional fall mushroom popping up in spring is possible. However, a picture is better than a rumor, and a specimen taken to a local mycological society is even better.

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have a shroomy day and yes I picked some morels just two days ago, little brown ones. The black ones aren't yet up.

Mj

It was late at night and my friend(we had smoked ALOT of pot) and I decided it would be a good idea to post a false topic like this one.We got the idea when someone claimed you could find libs in the spring and mj and a couple others jumped all over him with their vast shroom knowledge.the plan was to post it then come back in a few days and see the shit it stirred up.I now think this was a bad idea because i dont want to be known as "MR.face cumpulsive bullshiter"

and psychonaut there is liberty caps in kamloops.Not all of it is desert, there are mountains that get lots off rain and are full of mushrooms. i know this because I camped on a few of them.

sorry to waste time

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I decided to phone my friend that I went to kamloops with and tell him how you wouldnt stop grilling me for saying libs grew in Kamloops.He said what we found was Psilocybe pelliculosa and it may look like a lib but its not.

MC

First you say liberty caps.
Then you say it was just a lie.

Then you say Psychonaut wouldn't stop grilling you yet he only posted a short note saying "Unfortunately, lib caps don't grow in forest mountains."

Next you say that you camped on them, and said but they were P. pelliculosa which may look like a lib but it's not.

If so, why would you sleep on them and not pick them?

A Mattso Line is now appropriate.

AHA.......

Well since you obviosly do not know what a lib or a P. pelliculosa looks like except maybe in a picture book. I sure wouldn't want to eat what you pick. Most likely the mushroom you observe in the mountains were probably a species of Mycena.

Here is a picture of a trail in a clearcut with Psilocybe pelliculosa growing.

That really must have been comfortable sleeping on this kind of habitat in the mountains.

I guess you must be the only person to sleep on a patch of Psilocybe pelliculosa which grow primarily abundantly in clearcuts on Alder wood branches between November and December since you say you camped on some, then it must have been last year. Because they sure wouldn't be growing now.

You sure sound like someone who posts under a different name .

By the way, if you go into the forest two or three feet off the trail or clearcuts and into the woods, there are never no more than a few, one or two or even three P. pelliculosa's and then very rarely a few more.

It 's the man made environments that they grow profusely in and you can only find one and maybe two if you are lucky in a garden or mulch patch.

Any more good stories?

Mj

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That was well deserved.

If anyone knows anything it's...

DON'T MESS WITH MJ !!!

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Although Stamets does mention that Ps Semilanceata does come back in the spring in small numbers. (in his book, which I KNOW you dont like mj, Psilocybin Mushrooms of the world) I have never seen this happen...

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Paul also says that after you pick mushrooms off of a lawn and then go on another lawn that you are spreading the spores, but over the years I annually have walked over hundreds of lawns after picking one lawn and still no mushrooms ever grew on any of the lawns I walked over where no mushrooms grew to began with, so I cannot see this happening.

They come in the sod or in the fertilizers which have spores in them already or in the woodchips where they are mixed and then sent to landscappers who put them in to a garden or park or around an apartment/condo complex or office building or a MacDonalds lawn.

Its the same in a pasture. Some pastures can hace cattle and no mushrooms ever or once or twice and then never again.

No one can predict where they will grow.

Very cool response Mitchnast. hehehe.

.Mj

Have a shroomy day.

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We all seemed to miss the whole point of this thread. Mr. McFace, in his own words from above:
"and I decided it would be a good idea to post a false topic like this one.We got the idea when someone claimed you could find libs in the spring and mj and a couple others jumped all over him with their vast shroom knowledge.the plan was to post it then come back in a few days and see the shit it stirred up."

The matter of the fact is that this kid lied to began with so anything everything else that he said is subject to scrutiny.

If he wants to stir shit let him get a job in the barn and then maybe he just might find soem mushrooms after he is knee deep ion his shit.

Mj
Mj

i tried to edit the last message which I accidently double posted and it kept coming back telling me I was not authorized.

Ehat gives and can you remove the double message?

Mj

You should be able to edit your own post (I just did) If your trying to edit/erase everything in a post, it won't work. You have to at least leave something like a period(.) in your post, before it will let you edit. As far as deleting one of them goes, I don't have the ability to do so. I can only erase entire topics, not individual posts. I'll go ahead and edit it for you though.

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Mj

psychonaut:i used the word grilling because it sounded better than stating the facts.

thats all

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MC face,try not to start bullshit in this forum.this forum is for learning and sharing info ,not for fuckin with people.hehe take that off topic!!

mitch ....good one man!!

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