i think i nead litle bit hellp

[Alejandro]

i have some mushrooms and 1 of them has white cup is ok
;???

 

[Mycophile]

white cup?

A picture would be handy...

 

[GOD]

I think you mean cap ??? As was said we need a picture of it . Did you pick it or did you grow it ? If it has white gills be very , very carefull and throw it away . Then wash your hands . Definately dont eat any mushrooms unless you are 100% certain of what they are .

 

[DeepTurtle]

If it has white gills be very , very carefull and throw it away . Then wash your hands .

No need for the melodrama. Some white mushrooms are poisonous (amanita virosa), some are edible (agaricus campestris, the common field mushroom, and coprinus or shaggy mane inkcaps, and puffballs, to name a few) and some are hallucinogenic, like panaeolus.

Some mushrooms with brown caps are even more poisonous (cortinaria sp., easily confused with psilocybe), some are edible or hallucinogenic, namely the psilocybes.

Learn a few kinds of mushrooms at first, and become an expert at identifying them. Usually this means edible mushrooms. Some are extremely easy to identify, like full grown agaricus, with their pink gills, or horn o' plenty, which look like black leather, or red/orange capped amanita muscaria. Some are harder to identify, like orange chantarelles, which might be confused with jack o' lanterns.

In the best of all worlds, you will go hunting with someone who has been doing it for a number of years. At the very least you need a field guide. You never said what kind of mushrooms you were looking for, so I won't presume to know what your question is.

Psilocybe mushrooms have two things about them which make them relatively easy to identify: Most stain blue (not black! Cortinarius stain black=deadly), and psilocybe have purple spores. If you have a microscope, it is one of the best ways of identifying psilocybe species.

So, go out and get a field guide book, and have fun.

p.s. - It is standard wisdom that you do not mix mushrooms in the same bag or basket. A poisonous mushroom can contaminate non-poisonous ones. even touching a poisonous amanita phalloides or virosa can contaminate edible ones.

 

[GOD]

Here we go again . Any mushroom that an unexperienced person could mistake for a Psilocybe mushroom that has white gills should be thrown away and they should wash their hands as even licking your hands after handeling poisonous amanitas can be dangerous . Amanita phalloides or virosa can look like a Psilocybe mushroom for an unexperienced picker . You contradict yourself when you say "No need for the melodrama. " and then later say "even touching a poisonous amanita phalloides or virosa can contaminate edible ones." . Yes , thats why he should throw them away . Psilocybe mushrooms havent got white gills and the spores are from brown to purple brown . Amanita Muscaria and Amanita Pantherina have got white gills and most people know what they look like and if they arent sure as i said they should throw them away . I`ve been mushroom picking for more than 40 years , picking Psilocybe mushrooms for more than 34 years and growing them for more than 22 years . I unlike you also live in Europe where Alejandro lives . There is very little posibility that Alejandro has been picking out side here because we are in the middle of winter , plus the fact that if you paid atention to this thread you would see that hes been growing P.Cubensis .

So again Alejandro if you dont know what your mushroom is and its got white gills throw it away and wash your hands .

 

[DeepTurtle]

Here we go again . Any mushroom that an unexperienced person could mistake for a Psilocybe mushroom that has white gills should be thrown away

You pathetic ingorant loser. Did this individual ever say the word "psilocybe"??? No. You've probably never picked a wild mushroom in your life, and you couldn't tell a pholiota from a coprinus, so go back to your little pretend world, you pretend "god".

By the way, amanita has white gills. The original poster never mentioned the word "gills"--- you did! So don't put words into other people's mouth, dumb ass.

Throw it away, give me a break. The person didn't even say why they picked what they picked. Maybe they just want to look at it, why are you deciding what people should do you pretender? If anyone's licking their hands here, it must be you. Have you ever seen or picked a fairy ring mushroom? White gills, edible. Have you ever seen or picked an amanita muscaria? White gills, semi-edible (dry first, or cook). Have you ever picked a shaggy mane, russula, or oyster mushroom? All white gilled, and all mostly edible (russula emetic makes you vomit). The oyster mushrooms are delicious, by the way. I've picked them by the bag fulls in October from maple trees.

Listen, I've been picking mushrooms in the northeast woods for over 30 years. Get yourself a field guide with good pictures. Try to learn just one or two species every year. You will get better over time. and, yes, I have poisoned myself eating questionable mushrooms. I trusted someone who didn't know what they were doing, like our friend here the fake God.

I have picked amanita phalloides, viridescens and vertigris, and a. pantherina and a. muscaria. In Florida I picked psilocybe species off cow dung. I couldn't tell you exactly what the species was, I think cubensis. Lots and lots of them. They are not white.

Take a picture, post it next time.

 

[GOD]

" I have poisoned myself eating questionable mushrooms."

I havent , and non of the people i have taken mushroom picking have , nor have any that i have grown mushrooms with . Only ignorant idiots do things like that . Only dick heads eat mushrooms if they cant identify them 100% .

" I couldn't tell you exactly what the species was, I think cubensis"

You said it . You havent got a clue about what you are talking about . You just admited that you couldnt even identify P.Cubensis and that you still cant .

 

[DeepTurtle]

" I have poisoned myself eating questionable mushrooms."

I havent , and non of the people i have taken mushroom picking have

No doubt. You haven't really picked mushrooms. I doubt if you could tell Lolita from a lepiota.

Oh, you've probably had a few wild mushrooms here and there. Many of the older hunters I've been with have ate a bad one along the way. Usually the younger novices haven't because of, well, ironically, lack of experience. No mistakes, of course, because no exposure.

Just because you never poisoned yourself, don't pat yourself on the back. People who NEVER pick mushrooms will of course never eat a bad one ;-)

I live surrounded by woods, and these woods are full of mushrooms, and I've picked many, many, many different kinds, not just hallucinogenic ones.

For the rest of you, one good GENERAL book I started with was Jacqueline Seymour's "MUSHROOMS AND TOADSTOOLS" the pictures are very good.

After that, for purely psilocybe mushrooms, you can't do better than the authoritative Paul Stamets' "PSILOCYBE MUSHROOMS OF THE WORLD" That book has everything you could ever want to know about panaeolus, psilocybe and big laughing gyms. I can't say enough good things about this valuable book for psilocybe mushroom hunters.

Also, Stamets goes into detail about how to tell the difference between psilocybes and the deadly look-alikes, galerina.

Basically, there are two really good tests. One is that psilocybe stains blue when you bend it or break it.

Galerinas stain black. Some people may imagine they see blue, when they see black. Don't let your imagination fool you. Blue is blue and black is black.

The other sure way to tells, says Stamets, is that all psilocybes have purple spores. The only sure way to tell if what you have is a psilocybe is by looking at the spores under a microscope.

 

[cosmicdeep]

Turtle, if you will have any time, please look at the mushrooms at the 5th site of mushroom photo gallery. Look those (your wicked picture are the titles)that i (Cosmicdeep) posted, not the small mushrooms but big ones(golden-brown caps,bluing) . The coloration on the pictures is bad because of the poor camera and poor light. Stains on stems were sky blue or light blue and the caps started to get bluer in our or two after i picked them. I took the spore print and it was brown (i havent got any mycroscope ofcourse...). Even though GOD didnt completly made me sure that they are not psilocybes, i threw them just as preventiva. Just from couriosity i would like to see your oppinion. Thanks
Cosmic

 

[GOD]

It would be much easyer for him to answer your question if you told him exactly where you picked those mushrooms and when . The more information you give him the easyer it will be for him to identify them and tell you if they are Psilocxbe mushrooms or not .

 

[GOD]

What about sending Deepturtle a PM and asking him ????? He obviously hasnt seen your question .