I live 30 minutes outside S.F. and I am definitely going to be hunting whenever the season and the conditions make it possible.
I want a grow guide and id guide, can someone just give me straight info on when the season is and where I can pick me some kind shrooms...ALL valid help is appreciated!!!

GHOST

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"Fellas you've heard the old saying that in the land of the blind the man with one eye is king, well today in the land of the skunks the man with half a nose is king"

I havce never ever mention Amanita pantherina as a deadly or poisonous mushroom. Where did this bit of misinformation come up from.

Also Panaeolus sphrinctrinus var. campanulatus is not a psychoactive mushroom even though Stamets listed it as a species in his Psilocybin mushrooms of the World.

I have only identified this species when people have posted its picture in the Shroomery. I have never said it was a posychoactive species and I only identified it when shown a picture of this species. I have always stated that it is not psychoactive and you should not eat something like this to begin with.

It always has a slight redish looking stem and little fringes of teeth-like skin hanging from the bottom edge of the caps. And a small black ring is visable on the stem. Panaeolus papilionaceus, Panaeolus retirugis and Panaeolus goosensiae are all macroscopidcally similar. They are ofter found in abundance on horse and cow manure in fields, usually fruiting when the Cubensis or Copelandia specimens are not in season, but may appear sometimes in the same paddie as Copelandia and other mushroom speciemens do.

Mj

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This species has a cap which is convex to subumbonate (With a protrud like nipple), and is slightly straite at the margin (meaning that the gill plates show throught the top of the cap when the mushroom is moist). The cap is hygrophanous (Changing color as it drys) from brownish fading to a cremy white or pale orange-brownish color, with some dark green staining tones.

The gills are brown to chocolate-brown and the edges are of the same color.

The tem is equal towards the base with bluing. it is also hollow white to browninsh and the base is covered with soil.

Its habitat is caespitose or gregarious on marshy soils in meadows and fruiting in November.

Known only from hackensack, New Jersey. It has a strong odor and its names means "strong smelling."

If it is in one place, it could very well be in other parts of NJ besides Hackensack.
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For NEW HAMPSHIRE,

Well its sketchy here. I suppose I should mention that there are probably Gymnopilus in your state, Panaeolus papilionaceus (the subbalteatus variety), and posibly Psilocybe caerulipes.

Mj

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Hi hows Frodo?

Well you are in the Southeast of the USA.

Psilocybe cubensis, maybe some Copelandia, Panaeolus subbalteatus and Psilocybe Ccaerulipoes grace your fine state.

Thats all I can give you. Now you have to do the rest and find some.
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For PsiLLy Cybe,Well The onkly psychoactive species I am familar with in Colorado is Conocybe cyanopus.

It is a small Cinnamon colored looking mushroom with a water clear stem which, when picked fresh from the ground will have a blue bulbous base after it is ripped from its soiled roots.

The shroom grows well along streams and river banks iun abundance and take fifty to seventy five small shrooms for a dose. This wouldd be equivalent to approiximately 1 quarter of a fresh ounce.

See Stamets book for a photograph. I may have posted a similar picture in the Mushroom Hunting forum at spiritplants.yack.org

Mj

La is sparse, maybe some Copelandia's (very Rare) Panaeolina castaneifoilia, Panaeolus subbalteatus.

For ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND>

WEll Psilocybe cyanescens has been collected the the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh.

You also have liberty caps all over Great Britain and in Scotland.

Mj.

Go back to the biginning of this thread and look for Great Britain. ITs in here somewhere. That way I do not have to retype the text.

Mj

I would tell yolu to check fields for Liberty caps in the late fall about three weeks up to the freeze. Check in the pastures in tall grass.

I have heard rumors of Psilocybe semilanceata there.

In the spring try looking for Panaeolus subbalteatus at riding stables and at race treacks.. They grow in manure sporadically and in rotted hay with stable shavings very abundantly.

Pictures of these species can be viewed at spiritplants.com in the mushroom hunting section. Click the go back button for one year.

Mj

i once found one solitary, waxy, yellow conic holow-stemmed, with a somewhat lighter stipe than the cap, brownish-purple gills. this mushroom grew in a forest pasture, away from the other mushrooms (various weak and non-psycho psibes and pans) in the shade after a rain near rasberry bushes next to rotting leaf and plant matter growing directly out of grainy crushed granate (former quarry) where certain mosses and lichens florished. this was in the foothils of the south mountain of the annapolis valley in Nova Scotia. and this mushroom stained dark blue almost instantly evrywhere it was touched, stem and cap. to me, it looked like an azure, and i only ever found one specimin but it should be impossible for psilocybe azuresens to grow there. Oh i ate it, but it was about 3 wet grams sitting in my pocket getting mushed and i barely felt it. tho i have found alot of amazing mushies there, including stropharia hardii, various amanitas and inocybes, conocybes, etc. also it is mountainous and unique to the regeon, and im pretty sure ive found Psilocybe Montana in august growing directly in moss. i think you might find the area called "three pools" an interresting hike if you ever go to the annapolis valley nova scotia, from september-early nov, there are the most amazing mushrooms there, from chanterelles to stropharia, theres even these huge (up tp 6" dia) conic orange mushrooms with pink gills that smell like oranges. and one solitary mushroom i found that looked exactly like the golden teacher strain of P. Cubensis from above, but from below forget it, white gills, solid stipe, no bluing. but man, the mushrooms in that area catch the corner of your eye if you know what i mean. facinating tho.
Ive heard from the Nova Scotia Museum of natural history that Stropharia Hardii is hallucinogenic, but i avoid anything without psilocybe or panaeolis (sp) in the name unless ive seen it stain blue. but then the same museum lists Psylocybe Pellucilosa (conifer psylocybe) as "liberty cap" and claims we have those also. ive never seen em tho, but maybe.

my real important question is as follows:

Im currently travelling across canada with a government funded work program....anywho.
im now in ontario, next stop quebec. way to cold for anything now. but my final stop is in East Vancouver BC. OH BOY!!!!!
anyway, i was wondering, since i will be aviving in early march and staying untill early may for sure, what shrooms would be available to me, where can i expect to find them (non-specific) and under what conditions and times of year. i may stay in the area longer if i can get a job and afford to live there. ive heard azures can be found on the island too :P but right now i have cyans, libs, and baeos dancin in my head. any hope for spring??