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Cap Ranging from 0. Psilocybe fimetaria. These are little brown mushrooms or LBMs that grow in conifer debris and litter along trails and logging roads in second growth forest lands. They may also be found in landscaped areas in conifer mulch. It is a low potency species that resembles many other LBMs of the forest, including some potentially poisonous Galerina species.
Eating this mushroom is not recommended. Psilocybe pelliculosa. It grows from dead grass roots and is especially common in wet pastures where the grass roots form a heavy thatch. It can thrive in grazed fields but is not associated with animal dung. It can also grow in lawns and playing fields in wet coastal areas. Psilocybe semilanceata.
Photos by Chris Ashurst and Stan Czolowski. This is a common weed species of urban and suburban landscapes sometimes growing in large quantities in recently established lawns and plantings in woodchip mulch or where the soils contain woody materials.
This mushroom is very low in potency and closely resembles some deadly Galerina species which often grow in the same habitat. This species closely resembles the Liberty Cap but lacks the exaggerated pointy nipple typical of Psilocybe semilanceata and has a heavy zone of veil fibrils around the stem. Psilocybe subfimetaria was first discovered in Vancouver in and also grows in Washington and Oregon.
Jane Traynor is from the Staffordshire Fungi Group which records the different types of fungi found in local fields. John Hughes is a fungi expert at Shropshire Wildlife Trust, and says that fungi grow and fruit at different rates depending on the conditions. Mushrooms are a difficult thing to grow with any confidence anyway, but something in the air this winter is bringing them above ground. Psilocybe semilanceata contain the psychoactive ingredient psilocybin and they fruit to produce their mushrooms at below 15C in the day and 10C at night with the first freezing temperatures heralding the end of the season.
They became popular in the s as a legal alternative to LSD but they were banned in because of their psychoactive effect. It is in the very cold conditions that things change.
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