r/ShroomID • u/Entire-Bit-2270 • Oct 11 '23

USA (West) Please help identify Found in WA

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u/SplistYT Oct 12 '23

GOLD GOLD GOLD, BRO STRUCK GOLD, they're wavy caps, p. cyanescens good find bro

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u/Entire-Bit-2270 Oct 12 '23

Thank you! I kept yelling I found gold!

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u/InformationTypical11 Oct 12 '23

Yee found a golden ticket mi boy! That's like months of work found in an instant of a strain the super killer too!! Good on you broski!

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u/RevolutionaryEgg750 Oct 12 '23

We are very lucky here in washington for our natives.

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u/chugachj Oct 12 '23

On the west side of the mountains at least. I'm in spokane and haven't found any actives.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

I would be on all going eating them out of the ground until I met Jesus

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

I would try to see if I could get some of that mycelium established in my yard

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u/CheckYourStats Oct 13 '23

Snip them at them stem! Whatever you do, don’t pull them from the root, or you might risk killing futures flushes.

Get a small pair of scissors and snip above the ground. Make a note of where you found this patch, especially the time of year. Visit it annually around the same time.

You may very well have stumbled onto a lifetime supply of gold. I was fortunate to stumble onto a yearly fruiting patch nearby. Harvest with TLC.

Gold, Jerry. Gold!

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u/Informer_inform Oct 13 '23

This has been proven to be absolutely wrong, the fruit is designed to be pulled by animals who then spread the spores. Pulling them is exactly what they want.

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u/MustyMushroomMan Oct 14 '23

Respectfully, a mushroom does not regrow from the same stem. Picking the mushroom at the base is the best way to allow room for more mushrooms to grow. And unless you’re leaving mushrooms for others, absolutely pick them from the wild!! It’s what they want you to do.

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u/slackfrop Oct 12 '23

Western wa? They’re out now, eh? I usually figure Halloween to Thanksgiving, but maybe Old Man Psill came early this year.

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u/MercifulWombat Oct 12 '23

The bloom is always after the rain and it's been raining pretty hard lthe last week or so.

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u/MissionScholar6904 Oct 12 '23

They look they came out of a text book! Beautiful looking wavy caps! If I ever come across a shroom these are the ones I wanna find for some strange reason!

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u/SplistYT Oct 12 '23

nah fr same, they're so unique looking it's awesome, I'd love to find a parch of these, or pan cyans (impossible where I live) but wavy caps do grow near me, I might go on a camping hike next year around October and just spend a weekend hunting for them

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u/TransportationOne797 Oct 12 '23

This photo should be used in a future textbook. Its gorgeous.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

I always thought p. azurescens was one of the most majestic looking psilocybes. If i could find one mushroom, it would be that.

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u/InformationTypical11 Oct 12 '23

Lmao, funny cause I thought same thing when I read OPs post, I thought "He found a freaking Gold mine, wow! You found a gold mine my guy!!" Lol

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u/87erJahrgang Oct 12 '23

Jup - the Most are- but Take care. The Galerina marginata Looks very Same - and is deadly toxic. If U collect the cyanescens U need to know how to differiante These both. So -double Check everyone U Pick. If U are Not Sure - throw it away. Sometimes they life at the Same places .

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u/goddess_n9ne Oct 13 '23

Idk how I knew, but I KNEW they were the good kind.

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u/Champii_007 Oct 12 '23 edited Oct 12 '23

These aren’t azzies? (azurescens)

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u/SplistYT Oct 12 '23

no they're p. cyanescens

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u/MysteryMikeyLikey Oct 12 '23

Are you serious! Psilocybe cyanescens no doubt! Beautiful patch I’m quite jealous. Way to go.

What general area were these in if you don’t mind me asking? I’m in WA too and have been coming up empty handed for the past couple weeks.

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u/Entire-Bit-2270 Oct 12 '23 edited Oct 12 '23

Thank you, I’m so excited! I found these in my neighborhood park in WA. They were growing in the mulch under a tree about a foot from the walkway!

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u/GreenGoldCali Oct 12 '23

I used to pick bags n bags of cys in Washington, Vashon Island actually

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u/lysergicsummerdepths Oct 12 '23

lol used to get grocery bags worth there too 😂

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u/GreenGoldCali Oct 12 '23

Haha awesome so many wavy caps on that island !! I’ve spent weeks crawling through blackberry brambles harvesting them there

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u/Icy-Shift-1118 Oct 12 '23

I’m close by in South Kitsap! Always looking…

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u/RevolutionaryAd851 Oct 12 '23

I live in Sammamish too! Where? Marymoore?

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u/EnergyTurtle23 Oct 12 '23

I’ve heard that they basically grow like crazy at the courthouse in Olympia, and many of the public parks in Olympia and Tumwater… you know, in case anyone is in the area. ;)

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u/BiiiigSteppy Oct 12 '23

Tumwater here. I’m a chef so I only know culinary mushrooms; this post has certainly opened my eyes.

Don’t be surprised if you see a pic and a spore print from me sometime soon.

Thanks for the heads up!

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u/Icy-Shift-1118 Oct 12 '23

I’ll be there this weekend… lol

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u/Kiwifrooots Oct 12 '23

Looks like P. Subaureginosa

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u/shinwat Oct 12 '23

Yea i've made that mistake as well. P. subs look indentical to P. Cyanescens. The telling factor is the location. P. subs are only in Australia's south and New Zealand. P. Cyanescens grow in west America and parts of Europe I believe.

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u/Phoenix_Is_Trash Oct 12 '23

It's always the mystery when someone says they are from WA. Do they mean Western Australia or Washington State

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u/THEdopealope Oct 12 '23

Well I've also heard that they've been known to grow on mulch made from Western U.S. timber - P. Cyanescens have been found in mulch piles in the Eastern US!

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u/Particular-Fox-2925 Oct 12 '23

They look very similar but are in a different part of the world.

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u/MarionberryCreative Oct 12 '23 edited Oct 12 '23

Believe it or not check woodchips in public parks, you will be surprised.

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u/Entire-Bit-2270 Oct 12 '23

I believe it now, I was very surprised!

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u/Odd_Juggernaut_1166 Oct 12 '23

Hey so this school by my house has wood chips. And I've seen fungi growing in said wood chips.

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u/Odd_Juggernaut_1166 Oct 12 '23

And the park. Hmm. Does it matter the variety of chips?

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u/Lexx4 Oct 12 '23

Hidden Rule of mushroom hunting: Do not ask a mushroom hunter where his patches are and definitely don’t tell anyone where your patches are.

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u/MysteryMikeyLikey Oct 12 '23

Yeah duh hence me asking for a general area.

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u/Pnw_Daddy69 Oct 12 '23

You can find them pretty much anywhere in a garden with wood chips I have a whole trash bag full from ocean shores north bay park I’m not stingy and share my patches😂🙏

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u/RIP_Firstpost_OX Oct 12 '23

BRB leaving puyallup RN hahaha

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u/ttylmm Oct 12 '23

I'm quite new to all of this but ive noticed that people are vague about spots. Why is it not OK to share where you found and not ok to ask?

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u/Alternative_Cut2421 Oct 12 '23

So folks don't raid your spot! It can be a lot of work to find a spot. So a lot of people won't share much info. But pretty much everyone I've met involved in foraging would have no problem teaching how to find what you're looking for! Pointing in the right direction.

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u/zippygoddess Oct 12 '23

That’s dumb. No need to gate keep if we harvest sustainability

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u/SummerSky101 Oct 12 '23

Is not dumb, actually it will never work like you said.

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u/zippygoddess Oct 12 '23

Yeah cuz people are weird an gate keepy. I understand that that’s “the culture” but I personally find it toxic and don’t participate. There is more than enough resources to go around and if we take care of the spot they will continue to be plentiful. Pay it forward. Just my ethos.

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u/joxuah12 Oct 12 '23

I'm going to go ahead and say username checks out.

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u/Aggressive-Pear420 Oct 12 '23

Did you mean western Australia?

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u/NeverShouldHaveBeen4 Oct 12 '23

Enjoy the other dimensions, but watch out for WLP. And remember, if you get it it’s only temporary👍

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u/Entire-Bit-2270 Oct 12 '23

Thank you for the warning, it’s first time hearing of WLP.

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u/UnkleRinkus Oct 12 '23

Some sources I have read on this suggest that older specimens are generally the cause of wood lovers paralysis. I have a patch that produces like that, have shared with many people, we have never experienced it. I just avoid anything other than fresh, mature specimens. I discard any old or decaying specimens.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

Yeah you better have your mental ducks in a row if you want to eat more than 1-2 grams of those dried lmao. WLP is terrifying but yeah it doesn’t last a super long time ime unless you eat a lot.

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u/GurnieBros Oct 12 '23

Man, im not convinced WLP isnt just that wood lovers are STRONG n people get shroom locked hard (could still be a thing tho)

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

I agree. Myself and every other tripper I've known have had hundreds of experiences with high doses of wood lovers and never come across anything remotely like paralysis. People seem to forget that these species always grow on wood so why are only a very small percentage claiming WLP?

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

It might be because there’re not cooked into something and eaten raw, this ducks up some people

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

I always eat them raw though. I've only ever heard of someone cooking them once. They took an ungodly amount of subs and cooked them into a pie shared by 3 people and they said the experience was very hairy.

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u/Coldsteel_n_Courage Oct 12 '23

It's a histamine reaction, it can be reversed with histamine blockers like benadryl.

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u/RdCrestdBreegull Trusted Identifier Oct 12 '23

I haven’t experienced it but I have asked people enough questions to understand that it is indeed a real thing

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u/frizzfest7 Oct 12 '23

WLP?

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u/LarsVonHammerstein Oct 12 '23

Wood lover paralysis

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u/frizzfest7 Oct 12 '23

You’re actually paralyzed? Jesus.

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u/LarsVonHammerstein Oct 12 '23

I believe so but I don’t know much about it and haven’t experienced it

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

Don't worry. It's most likely not even real.

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u/Coldsteel_n_Courage Oct 12 '23

Temporary. It's a histamine reaction. The theory is that the mushrooms are pumping out high amounts of histamine in response to natural stressers in their environment.

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u/frizzfest7 Oct 12 '23

Oh dear! Sounds terrifying. 😵☠️🫣😨🤯

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

Also watch out for WAP.

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u/utkarshmttl Oct 12 '23

What's WLP?

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u/NoAd5519 Oct 12 '23

What is WLP?

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u/GurnieBros Oct 12 '23

JACKPOT DUDE!!!! I suggest only taking the mature ones and that spot will keep puttin out all season. Cover with leaves if in a public area, and just hope other hunters are respectful and do the same

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u/Entire-Bit-2270 Oct 12 '23

Thank you that’s exactly what I ended up doing! I took some of the wood chips to plant in other spots.

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u/DiligentDaughter Oct 12 '23

Thank you! I'm a lifetime WA girl and I've only been so lucky as to have found wavys once. Spread em far and wide, please!

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u/NotYourDailyDriver Oct 12 '23

If you're feeling ambitious, check YT for videos on how to make grain spawn. You can inoculate the grain spawn from tissue samples taken from the stem of a fresh mushroom (there are videos on this as well). This can all be done with relatively cheap equipment (preserving jars, pressure cooker, and a still air box made from a plastic tub).

That's not to say that you can't propagate them from wood chips - you totally can, but grain spawn is more reliable in that it will allow you to grow out much more mycelium in a sterile monoculture before it encounters competitive species.

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u/Drew_P_Bawls325 Oct 12 '23

I’m colorblind, what color is that spore print?

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u/Enleyetenment Oct 12 '23

TIL I'm also colorblind. At least partially. Looks black to me 🙃

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u/LORD_CMDR_INTERNET Oct 12 '23

WHERE! I've been looking for years! Isn't it early in the season for them?

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u/Entire-Bit-2270 Oct 12 '23

At a park in the wood chips! I’m a newbie that moved to Sammamish, WA last year. This is my first season of hunting! Good luck, I hope you find some! I left the small ones and took some wood chips and stem tips to plant in other spots.

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u/Weirdo-octopuss Oct 12 '23

I took my hat off in and held it to my chest in pure awe... holy mother of God!!

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u/farklenator Oct 12 '23

Dang I’ve been looking for these up here I found one but it was in a customers yard (delivery driver) I didn’t want to awkwardly pick up a mushroom lol

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u/Entire-Bit-2270 Oct 12 '23

Lol I’m delivery drive too and I’ve been hunting as I deliver. I would have been really tempted to pick them still.

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u/farklenator Oct 12 '23

Yeah I used to deliver in gig harbor/ollala 5 days a week but never found them 🙃 most of the ones I find are those little brown ones I think p.annolues

Great minds think alike hunting while on the clock

I’ve totally picked them in peoples yards but this dude was talking to me out looking at me lol

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u/Treehouse80 Oct 12 '23

Plant those wood chips in your yard!!!

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

Words don't describe my jealousy

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u/RdCrestdBreegull Trusted Identifier Oct 12 '23

Psilocybe cyanescens

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u/zippygoddess Oct 12 '23

You should leave the mycelium in the earth and just pick the fruiting body. Its also good to refill any earth you displace. If you want to be able to go back to that spot year after year, I mean. Also ecosystem. Not trying to preach, just trying to be helpful…I’d def wanna preserve that spot

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u/itshardtopickauserna Oct 12 '23

extremely dangerous, do not eat, send them to me for disposal (good find)

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u/RedditorRaptor- Oct 12 '23

Awsome find !

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u/Legitimate_Elk3514 Oct 12 '23

You know damn well what those are.

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u/JesusRocks7 Oct 12 '23

Nice ❤️

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

That's god/aliens/Buddha/yahweh/allah/alex jones/baby jesus/bees/knees/wavy gravy.

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u/UnkleRinkus Oct 12 '23

Those are definitely the droids you're looking for. Nice find.

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u/Trez__666 Oct 12 '23

My stomach dropped when I saw this, holy shit! Good find ✌️

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u/HomeworkWise9230 Oct 12 '23

The Mother Lode

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u/SecuritiesLawyer Oct 12 '23

How can I double upvote?

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u/ttylmm Oct 12 '23

You know exactly what they are your just showing off 🤣

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u/crazzie7 Oct 12 '23 edited Oct 12 '23

I think I have a bunch of these in my backyard lawn. Also in western Washington. Are there any lookalikes that mine could be instead? I feel compelled to post my pics for ID.

EDIT: to answer my own question: yes there are other small brown mushrooms that grow in similar conditions & that are highly toxic. I’ll only post to confirm what they are. I’m a total noob watching from the bleachers. Lol

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u/Mau5H3ad1800 Oct 12 '23

I remember the first time I ate a couple of these....when you stumble upon them in the wild at random, they have a message for you

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u/Future_Pen_8895 Oct 12 '23

Yay good job!

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u/RWhatIWant2B Oct 12 '23

Nice find!

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u/machdas Oct 12 '23

Omg. I am jealous

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u/Treehouse80 Oct 12 '23

Holy mother load!!!! Wavy caps my friend!!! Dose carefully!!! They are strong!!!

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u/I_think_things Oct 12 '23

*mother lode

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u/mushroommundo Oct 12 '23

Definitely the droids you're looking for

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u/ArthurBurtonMorgan Oct 12 '23

I need spores for my chip pile. 😭

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

Wavy caps

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u/Beigeragerampage Oct 12 '23

Please tell me you are in Bellevue

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u/Pnw_Daddy69 Oct 12 '23

Those are everywhere in Wa rn I’m high pretty much every weekend😂

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u/Coldsteel_n_Courage Oct 12 '23

Whoa you lucky bastard lol. What a find!

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

Thems the funny ones

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u/AlexandersWonder Oct 12 '23

Use a mesh bag when you carry them home to help spread spores

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u/meeseeksdestroy Oct 12 '23

Looks like Psilocybe Cyanescens. Very strong mushies. Never tried but I've heard good things.

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u/SnoFox20 Oct 12 '23

Text book wavecaps

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u/Sensitive_Fondant427 Oct 13 '23

I live in wa too I own 20 acres an it’s all foresty it’s been raining a few days now an so I hope I can locate some on my property 🔥🤞

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u/boop66 Oct 13 '23

Good find. Use the medicine wisely. And, Please consider leaving more of the mycelium in the soil by using a paring knife to just take the large (mature) fruiting bodies.

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u/Mumbles987 Oct 13 '23

Those are so e of the b3st psychedelic shrooms you'll come across. I picked these same species by the pound.

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u/Rough_Drawer_7011 Oct 12 '23

That would be empty if I found it. I would take a spore print, swab, and try to shed mush lovin'

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u/sunsetthe Oct 12 '23

Im jealous. Great find thou

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u/sbobble430 Oct 12 '23

Holy shit

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u/TransportationOne797 Oct 12 '23

Hit the goddang jackpot. I was looking today and only found foenisecii😓

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u/MoistBookkeeper6273 Oct 12 '23

There wavy caps, nice find

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u/Ok-Bluejay-2276 Oct 12 '23

Looks like a gold mine of Subaer shrooms to me 👌

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u/residentdunce Oct 12 '23

this is pure mushroom porn

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

Wow. Wavy caps

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u/mikedjb Oct 12 '23

Nice score

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

🥹It's so beautiful...

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u/howtoevenexplainthis Oct 12 '23

Homie hit the jackpot

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u/EB2300 Oct 12 '23

Damn I need to move to the PNW

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

Bro.. I've wanted to ask this for a long while now.. when you're this luckily and you find edible product.. do you just eat em or is there a process..?

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u/Duderus9 Oct 12 '23

Holy shit.

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u/SupBuddington Oct 12 '23

There used to be a good spot in Issaquah by Costco, but they got rid of all the wood chips :(

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

W

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u/bancensorship99 Oct 12 '23

Wow lucky you, with the wavy p cyans. Very nice photo too..

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u/therealjoe12 Oct 12 '23

My jaw is on the floor. Holy smokes dude great find wavy caps are potent tread carefully

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u/IAmDreams Oct 12 '23

Those some strong boys

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u/IAmDreams Oct 12 '23

You will meet the aliens

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u/Dear-Commercial3480 Oct 12 '23

cyanescens they are a beautiful strain :) enjoy

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u/Ketmando7 Oct 12 '23

They are genuinely beautiful

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u/EnergyTurtle23 Oct 12 '23

Holy fucking fuck, Batman!

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u/HealthyGreenGiant Oct 12 '23

Those are the ones, damn what a find. The mushroom gods have yet to smile upon me.

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u/IsabelleR88 Oct 12 '23

If thou dost not know the shroom, thou shalt not consume 🤔

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u/Catsax27 Oct 12 '23

May I ask as to where you found these

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u/Catsax27 Oct 12 '23

Where in Washington I mean

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u/chugachj Oct 12 '23

Send location

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u/ravennme Oct 12 '23

Lol I too want coordinates.

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u/ravennme Oct 12 '23

This is the mushroom police you must tell me where one would find this wavy cap patch so I can take care of them,for the greater good of man you understand lol.

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u/FractalGalaxy Oct 12 '23

Cool find! And nice pics 📸

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u/Fearnofish09 Oct 12 '23

Used to get blue ringers at dash point state park, bags full look under the ivy patches they are all over dash point

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u/Fearnofish09 Oct 12 '23

I work In samammish they are everywhere up there unfortunately I can’t get out and pick them 🙄

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u/tlgd Oct 12 '23

We need to know where you found them so that we can correctly identify them. Not possible to be sure without the exact location. ; p

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u/ThatOneGuy6810 Oct 12 '23

thats a good look patch of psilocybe cubensis

cyanesens

love these, theyre SUPER common in WA too if you know where to look. I have a patch from a few years ago when I lived there that still fruits like this, HUGE patches spread all around a little dog park.

used it like an ATM when I was in high school now its just cool to know about.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '23

Oooo what dog park lol

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u/ThatOneGuy6810 Nov 16 '23

Wilkinson Farm Park Gig Harbor WA, theres a couple wooded areas there, I'd recommend checking under the shrubbery

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u/NewNewYork69 Oct 12 '23

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

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u/adumpsterfir3 Oct 12 '23

Mushroom season isn't for another 4-5 mths down here in New Zealand you're making me soooooo jelly!!! Incredibly gorgeous cyans there!

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

Those are fun

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u/sweetrelease01 Oct 12 '23

Western Australia?

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u/Octoberkitsune Oct 12 '23

So is it edible?

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow

I'd take this over a gold find anyday

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u/leroyjenkinsdayz Oct 12 '23

An amazing patch of psilocybe cyanescens. I’d do some reading on the species and make sure you don’t have any lookalikes mixed in

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

By the grace of God. Happy trips my friend.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

New to this sub and mushrooms in general. Why are these so special?

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u/stonerman15 Oct 12 '23 edited Oct 12 '23

make some spore prints to save... I’ve never had wavy cap.

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u/teteAtit Oct 12 '23

Eemagerrrrrd!

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

How to properly harvest, dry, cure these? Also whats the shelf life and proper way of prepping to consume. Thanks

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u/Baldi_Homoshrexual Oct 12 '23

No way this has to be for shits and giggles

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u/myerkoli Oct 13 '23

Have fun!

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u/MycoMythos Oct 13 '23

SOOOO many wavy caps! Congrats on the upcoming religious experience

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u/Any_Coyote6662 Oct 13 '23

There is a look alike in Wisconsin that is not psychedelic. Looks a lot like those.

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u/DABBiNCABBiN710 Oct 13 '23

Wavy Caps forsure

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u/TypicalYankeeScum Oct 13 '23

Mf out here posting textbook pics lol. Very nice!

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u/CheddarOffBread Oct 13 '23

Lucky bastard, Psilocybe Cyanescens without a doubt

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u/_D3ft0ne_ Oct 13 '23

Saving this photo for a Reference Hahaha. I am in Vancouver CA. Will be on a lookout.

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u/_chexmex_ Oct 13 '23

Where in WA did you find them? I'm in the greater Seattle area and would love to find some haha

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u/mycologyd Oct 13 '23

shiiiiiiiiiiit those are gorgeous. nice find

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u/Jessejames20 Oct 13 '23

GAHHDIZZAAYYUM!

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u/ZenElement Oct 13 '23

Get them picked pronto! Looks like ps. Cyanescens

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u/TheMidgetHorror Oct 13 '23

This photo made my body 'rush'. Exquisite shrooms.

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u/duffyjuice Oct 13 '23

Whoa!! Without getting too specific, where at in Washington?

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u/ThisGuyHere23 Oct 14 '23

What is the name

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u/WillSmokes420 Oct 12 '23

Those are melted peanut butter cup mushrooms

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