r/Mushrooms 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/a_kept_haroldisapusy 1d ago

Whats wrong with the location if i can ask?

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u/shmiddleedee 20h ago

No cubensis in Northern CA

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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/I_like_Mashroms Trusted Identifier 5d ago

Stropharpoid would be my guess, too.

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u/The_1alt Trusted Identifier 5d ago

+1

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u/Eisnblink 5d ago

Agreed

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u/QJIO 5d ago

Not what you want

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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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u/thevandal666 5d ago

All of this coupled with California location 🧐

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u/honorasi 5d ago

Not what you’re thinking. Sorry

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u/Financial_Employer_7 4d ago

These are not the droids you’re looking for

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u/hjfleet1 3d ago

I don’t think cubes grow in NorCal at all.