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I've been browsing your great site for the last couple of hours and wondered if some of you could answer a query for me.
Are these liberty caps?
Liberty caps
I have a bout 30-40 of these growing on my front lawn. should I go for it? Will be the first time.
Thanks in advance,
Kevin
Are these liberty caps?
Liberty caps
I have a bout 30-40 of these growing on my front lawn. should I go for it? Will be the first time.
Thanks in advance,
Kevin
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No! Of course not.
Here's a pic of the rest I picked. More
Should I take a couple, that way would I know if they're ok with out dying?
"There is NO way to identify a mushroom based solely on a photo or even a written description. Identifying mushrooms is a complex process and it's easy to make mistakes. There are many varieties of both edible and psychoactive mushrooms which have poisonous look-alikes. Even an expert can be fooled by the outward appearance of these deadly look-alikes.
Unless you can either explore with a mycologist or knowledgeable and seasoned mushroom hunter, or take the time to learn the careful process of mushroom identification yourself through reading books and preferably joining a mycological society...we would strongly recommend not eating mushrooms you pick yourself.
Learning to identify mushrooms isn't difficult in and of itself, but it takes training. Because the down-side of eating a poisonous mushroom is so great...one needs to be extraordinarily careful."
But I would strongly advise you not to eat a mushroom that you can't identify, they can be very toxic.
these are liberty caps.
As you can see, the real ones, are black underneath and are more solid looking.
Dont eat the ones youve picked.
After reading through all of the websites that I've found and a lot of the ones you have kindly pointed out, a few things still make me wonder.
1. I read that generally if you find mushies in open grass areas instead of wooded areas, they will nearly always be mushies.
2. The older the mushie is, the flatter it becomes, even to the point of being inverted.
3. A lot of the pics I have seen seem to have been of young/middle aged mushies with more closed caps.
4. It has been quite mild here, as someone said "they've got blossom on the trees".
I have dried a few out over night and once the kids have gone to bed I will have a look at them. (No tasting)
Still research to do. There are still shrooms on the lawn, no trees for yards, a lot of them are younger and have a more closed cap. I will pick some of the younger ones and post a new pic. Although I have heard many a time that "mushies can't really be accurately recognised from pics" etc, it may be worth posting the pics of the younger ones.
Thanks again and I will add more pics soon.
Kevin.
dont risk eating potentially poisonous mushrooms. If you dont know for sure then dont eat them at all. You can buy shrooms from a head shop, its not worth the risk.
Is a head shop? A health shop?
No.
Something like Well Cool Stuff is a head shop.
roflma.
those ones in your picture wont kill you ive eaten hundreds of them, they will trip you out too. the ones you really want to avoid are the ones that look quite like them but without that little lump or nipple on the top , they (the bad ones) also tend to have more perfectly and uniformly hemispherical caps and they start to turn more orange in colour after theyve been out for a while. check all your mushies carefully as the crap ones often grow amongst or very nearby the good ones.
also take it easy on dosage first time you do mushies from any praticular batch youve picked as strength and other factors can vary wildly.
Great website
How long will it be before I would notice anything?
Need more than two then?
I'm pretty sure smoking them would do fuck all but hurt your lungs. The way to take mushrooms is to chew them for a while then swallow them, but I certainly wouldn't recommend doing that with mushrooms you've picked, I've always bought mine from a store.
Smoking most shrooms does fuck all. Smoking Fly's is supposed to do something but even then it's never worked for me.
Don't be a dinlo, don't take these when you can't be sure they are shrooms.
They will NOT ever work when you smoke them, same as you can NEVER smoke LSD.
You really shouldn't take what people say on the Web as gospel. I reckon it's better to be safe than sorry and leave the mushrooms alone; at least til they've been checked out by an expert.