Because only two species were reported from Pennsylvania. That does not mean that there aren't more there.

Conduitdal. Sorry, to hot in Nevada.

Stonefellow. Kuala Lumpur has both P. cubensis and Copelandia species. Notably Copelandia cyanescens.

And No there are no blue staining mushrooms that are poisonous. There is a poisonous mushroom Boletus cyanescens whichg is already blue, hence its name cyanescens. However blue is its natural color. and Boletus mushrooms do not have gills. They have pores like a sponge.

and there is a bluing mycena in indonbesia that is deadly poisonous, but once again this is the natural color of the mushroom.
And that should take care of Thuunderfucks proclamation about blue mushrooms. For alas he is hunting from the cow fields of Quebec.

Mj

Alexander H Smith wrote several field guides a that were one foot long and eight inches wide. For different parts of the country.

His book for the Western United States showed Psilocybe pelliculosa. I looked from this picture in 1972-1973 before I found my first liberty caps. I thought they resembled the picture of P. pelliculosa, but they were macroscopically different.

His east coasst guide shows photographs of Psilocybe caerulipes which graces the Eastern Seaboard of America.

You can usually find these guides in a University Library, in a reference section of the library.

Mj

Although the Lib Cap doesnt stain blue, this is true is it not..

Well if the stain blue is a safe technique then mushroom hunting should be a pretty safe pastime, I have always been given dire warnings about lookalikes and such....

Cheers..

Well Yes they are experts , but experts in what.

Edible and toxic mushrooms.

Many of the experts do not like magic mushrooms or the people who use them because they are drugs and are illegal. They are only experts in the class rooms.

They probably only collected in the field or wild for a few years and then they end up in a classroom teaching for twenty and do not really get out to where the shrooms are.

Only a few experts do and they know very little about psilocybes or any other shroom with psilocybin.

And yes not all liberty caps stain blue. But you do know that they are liberty caps which you have picked.

And posionous mushrooms do not resemble liberty caps.

I have an english paper from Great Britain from a respectable journal where one author says that the liberty caps resemble deadly amanitas. This is not true, yet many doctors have probably read this paper and now assumed that this is so.

Yet I have yused the bluing factor all of my shroom life with no error in judgement.

But just the same, be carfull. If you do not live in the Southeast USA or in the Pacific Northwest, you will usually not find what you are looking for. Unless you are diligent and careful.

There are some individuals who now know where to collect P. caerulipes along the East Coast.

Once you find a particular species, then you can find it almost anywhere in your area.

Mj

Idaho, well my list is short and strange. There are five species of Gymnopilus in Idaho and three psilocybes.

Gymnopilus aeruginosus(listed in Stamets book),
G. liquiritae,
G. luteofolius,
G. sapineus andG. spectabilis.

The three Psilocybes are
Psilocybe fimetaria (resemles blue ringers)
Psilocybe pelliculosa and
Psilocybe silvatica. The latter two species are common in logging sides in slashings and
pilons in clearcuts recently logged out within the last three years.

They tend to grow abundantly and gregariously in large quantities.

The Fimetaria can be found in well manured or manicured lawns around new office buildings or apartment complexes. They have a slight blue ring towards the top of the stem.

Gymnopilus species resemble the "Honey Mushroom." They can be collected on dead tree stumps or trunks.

I'll be away from here for about a month so good luck

Mj

Thanks!

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My only advice is that you get yourself a field guide, like Paul Stamets. A field guide is an absolute must for anybody thinking of hunting, otherwise you will be wasting your time.

Just so everyone knows, Mushroom John is away for about 1 month. So this thread is basicly done for now, if anybody has a question maybe hold off for a while.

Cheers,

Thor....

There, that should do it....

Cheers,

Thor...

What about Sweden/Denmark?

can one hope for anything except p.semilanceata?

Gn.Merz.

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