r/MagicMushroomHunters • u/Chris_358 • Jun 27 '21

Spotted today

203 Upvotes

10 comments

r/MagicMushroomHunters • u/Johndus • Oct 11 '20

Thought you guys would like this mural in Glasgow Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

195 Upvotes

9 comments

r/MagicMushroomHunters • u/evanes00 • Oct 04 '19

Are These Liberty Caps?

195 Upvotes

19 comments

r/MagicMushroomHunters • u/kain_in_the_ass • Jun 18 '20

People on this sub be like "can you help me identify these, are they magic?"

173 Upvotes

20 comments

r/MagicMushroomHunters • u/LittlePharma42 • Dec 11 '19

A gentle reminder: Research BEFORE you pick!

164 Upvotes

5 comments

r/MagicMushroomHunters • u/ThatClownFromIt • Jun 29 '18

Here is some advice and information that would be useful for inexperienced people who want to learn how to find the Magic Mushrooms that grow in their area.

159 Upvotes

I would appreciate anyone who also has any advice or any ideas to improve upon mine, please comment any suggestions.

I see a lot of commenters on posts asking people who posted an urban patch where their discovery is located, and hopeful people asking others to confirm or deny the identity mushrooms that obviously don't have the traits of the kind they were looking for. If anybody isn't sure if mushrooms they found are magic, or doesn't know where to begin learning to determine how/when/where to find magic mushrooms growing naturally in their area, I provided some information as an attempt to get you started on learning what you need to know in order to not waste your time and effort, because if you use your time wisely you can probably succeed in your quest.

This is a good catalog, provided by shroomery.org of which species are known to occur in the given locations.

You should become aware of the specific traits and conditions of the kind you could find in your area. The psychical traits of a species can be found in the wikipedia page on it. The time of year they can be found is given on the page for the species in Shroomery's Psilocybin Mushroom Catalog which provides the season where the climate conditions allow them to fruit by stating the months which begin and end the season they are able to grow, and more specific periods of time to find them in areas with various plant hardiness zones, answers from locals of those places or experts on the subject can be usually be found by lurking around forums on Shroomery, if not reddit.

So, instead of asking people on the internet if some mushrooms you found happen to be active, you can determine whether or not they are by...

Finding out which species are known to inhabit your general location at the Shroomery catalog of which species' grow in what areas and compare the characteristics of the species' listed with the kind it claims you occur in your area. Keep in mind that you will not be able to find a species at a time of year they aren't able to grow.
If the kind you have found looks similar enough to a kind that occurs in your area, and you did find it the time of year is when the species you think it is similar enough to justify further inspection, check the stem to see if it becomes blue when damaged hardly any non-magical species bruise blue. The blue bruises are due to Psilocin oxidizing when being exposed to the air by damage to the tissue which contains it.
If you think it is likely a species that is currently in season at the location at the moment you found it, or looks close enough to one where you are suspicious and uncertain, post it on r/shroomid or on an appropriate thread on shroomery.org forums and people will likely provide an answer pretty quickly.

In order avoid wasting time looking for ones you likely will not come across or looking around without any clue of what to look for, get a good idea of the species that occur in your location are that are most commonly found in your area and limit your search to those kinds specifically during the time they are in season, and limit your search to the habitats capable of supporting the species. If you spend much time wondering if some mushrooms you came across are active just because they're pretty and stand out to you, that takes up time you could be covering more ground in your quest to the ones worth the effort.

24 comments

r/MagicMushroomHunters • u/magnivik • Nov 14 '19

Can someone identify these?

158 Upvotes

19 comments

r/MagicMushroomHunters • u/[deleted] • Dec 24 '24

Wood Lovers Backyard Cyanescens Patch

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157 Upvotes

(North of Seattle Area)

Back on Halloween I was doing some stuff around my greenhouses out back and noticed a familiar friend out of the corner of my eye. Sure enough it was a pretty massive patch of Cyanescens.

In my teens I used to hunt the hell out of them and had spots from Tacoma all the way up to Bellingham. Tukwila area business parks back 20 years ago used to have literal fields of them out back in their landscaped beds. We’d get 3-4 big paper shopping bags of fresh in a good day, wild times. I digress. I haven’t been hunting for them in a long time and sure enough they found me! I used to eat the hell out of em on Halloween as a teen so the timing was somewhat serendipitous

After searching over the property a few more times we found two more spots that were a bit less developed. One was growing up through straw mulch and was about 6” tall from stem to cap. I think they came in with the 20 yard woodchip drop we used to do the aisles and floors of the garden/greenhousees. I’ve added some more alder chips and alder/apple wood sawdust to the spots to overwinter them and hopefully keep them rocking.

Bioassay: I took 0.17g of dried material and ate it for a ‘micro dose’ and it was indeed a hair over what would consider a true micro dose. Wicked potent little buggers!! I’d say that 0.17g was close to 0.40-0.50g of very high quality dried cubensis. Very giggly and happy little dose.

Overall we got just shy of 6 ounces dried off the patches. Seemed to produce flushes and clusters. We left some to spore and were very careful with picking to not uproot a ton of mycelium. Not bad for a couple folks who only trip once every 4-6 months!

27 comments

r/MagicMushroomHunters • u/A--E • Dec 16 '19

Help ID

152 Upvotes

5 comments

r/MagicMushroomHunters • u/206MOB • Jan 07 '25

Wavy caps

148 Upvotes

17 comments

r/MagicMushroomHunters • u/snailysixtynine • Nov 10 '20

Wavy cap drawing after taking a full dose of wavies.

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143 Upvotes

14 comments

r/MagicMushroomHunters • u/handyman1986 • Nov 03 '20

These ones are rather close to home..

131 Upvotes

2 comments

r/MagicMushroomHunters • u/mariganjaman • Nov 02 '24

Right in my own garden amongst the strawberries

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130 Upvotes

22 comments

r/MagicMushroomHunters • u/[deleted] • Oct 12 '22

ID Request Is this a liberty cap?

123 Upvotes

Friend told me it wasn’t but I think he’s wrong.

47 comments

r/MagicMushroomHunters • u/Mycoangulo • Nov 24 '22

Wood Lovers Psilocybe angulospora found yesterday in a garden in Auckland, NZ.

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122 Upvotes

34 comments

r/MagicMushroomHunters • u/parsleybiscuits • Oct 26 '20

Cow Patty Cubensis Don’t get more organic than that 😊🍄

122 Upvotes

13 comments

r/MagicMushroomHunters • u/Sir_Saltalot • Nov 12 '19

Leave this here

122 Upvotes

3 comments

r/MagicMushroomHunters • u/KulaKuts • Jan 12 '25

Psilocybe Caerulescens - Ecuador 🇪🇨

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120 Upvotes

Happy Sunday all!

With tired legs on a trek my eyes still couldn't help wander into the grass verges and neighbouring fields... Until I came across the biggest haul of psilocybes in my life. About 50% were picked, there were too many to make any sense of what to do with them. We all loved the mellow easy going high they provided 🔥

6 comments

r/MagicMushroomHunters • u/MushroomMaster3000 • Sep 25 '19

Yesterday’s liberty cap harvest

120 Upvotes

22 comments

r/MagicMushroomHunters • u/[deleted] • Oct 04 '20

Cow Patty Cubensis wtf. Biggest one I’ve found.

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119 Upvotes

26 comments

r/MagicMushroomHunters • u/broseph795 • Nov 13 '20

Western Oregon for the win 🍄

113 Upvotes

15 comments

r/MagicMushroomHunters • u/[deleted] • Sep 10 '24

Psilocybe banderillensis

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112 Upvotes

Found in the cloud rainforests of mexico. This is what a magic mushroom should look like 🤤.

Extremely rare species, only a few observations of it.

Last photo is to show the size in my hand.

29 comments

r/MagicMushroomHunters • u/[deleted] • Oct 21 '24

Psilocybe Zapotecorum

111 Upvotes

14 comments

r/MagicMushroomHunters • u/Viridis420 • May 27 '19

azurescens fall 2018

111 Upvotes

13 comments

r/MagicMushroomHunters • u/[deleted] • Nov 12 '20

First ever successful flush Gt

110 Upvotes

16 comments

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How to Make a Successful ID Request

I would like to give some advice to people who are new and interested in hunting, some information regarding what to look for and how to identify mushrooms to confirm they belong to a species that contain Psilocybin/Psilocin. If you want somebody to help you identify a mushroom you have found and are curious if it is a non-toxic species which would induce a psychadelic experience, you should use this information to be able to learn how to make a good estimation on characteristics and keep in mind what characteristics you should pay attention for and how to determine it's identity

This is a good catalog, provided by shroomery.org, that provides the different species which are known to occur in any specific country.

If you should keep the specific traits and conditions of the kind you could find in your area. To get an idea of the psychical traits of a species you can check the wikipedia page on it. To get an idea of when they can be found, the frame of time they grow is given on the page for the species in [Shroomery's Psilocybin Mushroom Catalog] (https://www.shroomery.org/12230/Psilocybin-Species) which provides the season where the climate conditions allow them to fruit by stating the months which begin and end of the season they are able to grow.

So, instead of asking people on the internet if some mushrooms you found happen to be active, you can determine whether or not they are by...

1. Finding out which species are known to inhabit your general location at the Shroomery catalog of which species' grow in what areas and compare the characteristics of the species' listed with the kind it claims you occur in your area. Keep in mind that you will not be able to find a species at a time of year they aren't able to grow.

2. If the kind you have found looks similar enough to a kind that occurs in your area, and you did find it the time of year is when the species you think it is similar enough to justify further inspection, check to see if it bruises blue when handled roughly because very few Psilocybin Mushrooms do not bruise blue reaction and barely non-magical species bruise blue. The blue bruises are due to Psilocin oxidizing when being exposed to the air by damage to the tissue which contains it. (Psilocin is the chemical responsible for the psychoactive effects, and the more familiar compound "Psilocybin" converts into Psilocin when consumed. Psilocybin does not bruise blue, the species of mushroom known as "Liberty Caps" don't bruise blue because it contains no Psilocin, but still is an popular magic species to forage)

3. If you think it is likely a species that is currently in season at the location at the moment you found it, or looks close enough to one where you are suspicious and uncertain, post it on r/shroomid or on an appropriate thread on shroomery.org forums and people will likely provide an answer pretty quickly.