Mushrooms popping up in WA

[Defenderalex1]

I'm finding lots of mushrooms in the nature parts of the industrial districts in the Seattle, WA area. I'm seeing 2 different kinds which are drastically different. I know better than to go and even touch unidentified mushrooms, but i hate to let the season slip away and the mushrooms with it... I'll try to get some pictures but for now a discription is all i've got.

The first kind i've found are relatively small with brown/gold caps and dirty white stems. The second kind i've spotted that looked worth identifying are in a different area and are much taller and larger with a white stem and a white almost grey/blue cap with bumps or something on it. I can't help but think of easter eggs with how much they seem to be popping up all over the grass.

Somebody was spotted near my work filling a grocery bag with the smaller type just last week.

My mushroom experience has only been with dried quebensis. which i will get into on the appropriate thread or post or w/e. I knew my source and it was good.

[entheogeneticist]

Cyanescens and Liberty Caps are the main shrooms that grow over there but I have only seen them dried so I can't comment with certainty on your description. I would say the smaller ones are likely liberty caps as the ones I've seen dried look like that. Those are the ones that grow in the grass over there. Cyanescens grow on wood chips.

[Little Elf]

don't recognize the latter but the former sound of cynesesus. But I've picked em like twice now and the second was just yesterday here in hawaii and they have red stems and I've been told those are sketch and to look for more white stems. Find some others, you are in WA:cool:

[Elfa]

The way to be sure is to pick some then look for the following features

1. Blue staining/brusing on the stem

2.Cut off the open cap of a mushroom and place it on a white piece of paper and leave overnight. The resulting spore print should be a dark purple. (if the print is rusty brown Never eat them!)

These two signs together indicate Psilocybin mushrooms.

Peace Elfa

[Defenderalex1]

Thanks for the good answers guys/girls. F@cking cool:)

[Defenderalex1]

i found some growing on wood chips, making a spore print.

[Defenderalex1]

i found some growing on wood chips, making a spore print.

not on woodchips, on soil with barely any bark scattered around, right next to grass. i've seen rabbits there, and i got a new pet beetle when i brought the mushrooms home after making a spore print. Spore print turned out like dark purplish almost black. Rabbits i have a good relationship with... anyways talking out my ass need sleep lol


they sure smell like the dried ones i've had before.

[Defenderalex1]

I'm curious what these are even if not hallucinogenic. Is it possible that these were growing in tight clumps because they were on bunny poo? they were near the base of some bushes and maybe growing on some bits of roots? Hopefully they're not deadly.

I am still in an information gathering stage and won't eat them. here's some pics i took of them with a webcam.

Somebody tried a little nibble and said it was bitter but they liked the taste. I looked at the spore print under 30x and it looked a little more purplish blue. I read that Hypholoma fasciculare can have a purple/gray spore print and the pictures i've seen showed them growing in clumps too. These fit some discriptions of that variety but they don't look that much like the pictures i've seen.

anyways anybody who can help or is curious, please check out these pics

[Defenderalex1]

I think that they are premature and can look like edible ones, but are probably pretty freakin poisonous. There's definitely a lot of other types of mushrooms around. I will post a spore print if i can get a good picture of any of the others i find.;)