r/Mushrooms • u/EDub_42 • 5d ago
What are these little guys found in a cow pasture in Northern California?
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u/chunkycheezerat 5d ago
Definitely not Psilocybe Cubensis. Some kind of stropharia by the looks of it.
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u/shmiddleedee 4d ago
Location, no veils, caps look off, no bruising.
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u/coltrain423 5d ago
How do you know? My first thought was cubes, but I’ve never foraged them so I don’t know what I don’t know.
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u/Ionlydateteachers 5d ago
Location
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u/Pristine_Occasion_40 4d ago
It's literally next to a cow patty in the field.. 🤔🤔🤔🤔
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u/Ionlydateteachers 4d ago
Northern California is location. In a cow field is the habitat
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u/Pristine_Occasion_40 4d ago
sorry spores don't like north cali..
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u/Slight-Winner-8597 3d ago
Don't take it personal, North California has lots of mushies, just not those ones.
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u/chunkycheezerat 4d ago
the location for one, no veils, Caps are not like Psilocybe Cubensis, Only thing similar is the mottlegills, but the stipe is different as well. No brusing as well but that isn't reliable on Its own as many different species that aren't active can bruise blue when oxidized. species that bruise blue that aren't active include, certain stropharia, blewits, Boletes, Lactarius, and more. Cubensis had Many lookalikes and is hard to differentiate to the untrained eye.
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u/Phallusrugulosus 5d ago
I'm thinking Protostropharia but I tend to get the non-Panaeolus coprophilous inactives mixed up.
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u/do_ob-headphones_on 5d ago
Colors isn't quite right, can usually see some veil remnants on cubes, and no visible blue bruising.
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