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May 31, 2013 at 4:09 pm

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Matt12345

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Not sure. These were picked yesterday. I will check them more later and give you an update. I found them on a cow farm in the grass. Some growing from old cow piles. What are slavery caps?
May 31, 2013 at 4:45 pm

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General Lighting

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@Matt12345 547716 wrote:

What are slavery caps?

Bear in mind many folk here are British and thus have our unique sense of humour 😉

in the UK and Europe a great number of similar looking mushrooms grow in the same area. These don’t get you high and might just give you a stomach ache.

it would also be very unusual in Europe to see psylocibin mushrooms in May, normally they appear in late Autumn (fall) unless you are in Wales where it rains all the time and they appear earlier.
May 31, 2013 at 8:59 pm

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Matt12345

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Are they called slave caps because liberty caps were given to slaves?
June 1, 2013 at 12:08 am

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@barrettone 547715 wrote:

Does it bruise blue?

I bruise blue, does that make me a liberty cap? 😀

On a serious note, sinners friend was telling me when I was in Denmark last year (he’s some what a bit of an expert on shrooms) that there’s actually types of mushroom that bruise blue, but contain no magic!
June 1, 2013 at 6:50 am

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Deez

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THOSE ARE NOT LIBERTY CAPS!!!! DO NOT EAT!

Note the colour and lack of striations on the cap as well as the time of year. Even in Northern Europe they don’t grow until Septemberish, though this depends on altitude and a number of things.

I am 99.5% sure that isn’t a liberty cap, If you’re still interested in knowing what it is do a spore print and i’ll try my best to help you.

When did you find it? In what habitat? Where are you from (roughly)?

Also, you may want to check out the Shroomery for more mycology based questions as is evident here..
June 1, 2013 at 6:50 am

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Deez

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@General Lighting 547717 wrote:

Bear in mind many folk here are British and thus have our unique sense of humour 😉

in the UK and Europe a great number of similar looking mushrooms grow in the same area. These don’t get you high and might just give you a stomach ache.

it would also be very unusual in Europe to see psylocibin mushrooms in May, normally they appear in late Autumn (fall) unless you are in Wales where it rains all the time and they appear earlier.

Even in Wales the earliest I have heard of is late July and that was at high altitude..
June 1, 2013 at 2:27 pm

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barrettone

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@DeezNuts 547737 wrote:

Even in Wales the earliest I have heard of is late July and that was at high altitude..

I believe our friend here could be in America. He’d have to do the spore test and the other things to be entirely sure.
June 1, 2013 at 6:32 pm

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Pat McDonald

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@DeezNuts 547737 wrote:

Even in Wales the earliest I have heard of is late July and that was at high altitude..

Wales, like the rest of the UK, doesn’t have any areas of high altitude. Snowdon and Ben Nevis aren’t actually mountains on a global scale.

And yes, I’ve picked in June. Very rare, got to have good rain, but it does happen.
June 1, 2013 at 11:34 pm

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Matt12345

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Located in then US. Washington. Found them on a cow farm.
June 2, 2013 at 8:19 am

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Deez

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@Matt12345 547716 wrote:

Not sure. These were picked yesterday. I will check them more later and give you an update. I found them on a cow farm in the grass. Some growing from old cow piles. What are slavery caps?

Then I am even more certain that they aren’t liberty caps my friend. They don’t grow direct on cow shit and although cow shit is good for the soil, cows destroy the fields a lot of the time. Do a spore test –

1) Place the cap, gills down, on a piece of paper
2) leave for a few hours
3) remove cap and tell us what colour you see..
June 2, 2013 at 8:19 am

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Deez

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@Matt12345 547716 wrote:

Not sure. These were picked yesterday. I will check them more later and give you an update. I found them on a cow farm in the grass. Some growing from old cow piles. What are slavery caps?

Then I am even more certain that they aren’t liberty caps my friend. They don’t grow direct on cow shit and although cow shit is good for the soil, cows destroy the fields a lot of the time. Do a spore test –

1) Place the cap, gills down, on a piece of paper
2) leave for a few hours
3) remove cap and tell us what colour you see..
June 2, 2013 at 8:25 am

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MR207

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I think liberty spore prints are supposed to come out dark chocolate purplish brown

But I’m definitely no expert
June 2, 2013 at 8:37 am

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Deez

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@MR207 547832 wrote:

I think liberty spore prints are supposed to come out dark chocolate purplish brown

But I’m definitely no expert

Yeah it is. But tbh after picking ~800 in October and researching them for about a year, I guarantee this is not a liberty cap. Liberty caps look like this:

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Can you see that is not a liberty cap now? The colour is completely different.
June 2, 2013 at 9:00 am

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MR207

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What do you usually eat them with anyways?
June 2, 2013 at 9:00 am

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The Psyentist

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@MR207 547834 wrote:

What do you usually eat them with anyways?

Your mouth
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