Shroom hunting What kind of mushrooms are these?

[Alfa]

I think it's time to desinfect that fridge.

[podge]

looks more like a decomposing jellyfish than a mushroom.a vomiting emotion would be useful alright....

[Nagognog2]

I finally got the pictures to load, and I have one possibility from visual and written descriptions: Coprinus Atramentarius. Judging by your statement that they are turning into black liquid suggests auto-deliquesence - which is a hallmark of the Coprinus Sp.

I am amused to see the beer bottles in the background. The C. Atramentarius is well known for having a disulfram-reaction if taken with alcohol. In other words, it will make you deathly sick with extreme vomiting, headache, bodyaches, yuck! It has been used in Sweden to treat hard-core alcoholics in the mushroom form. The active ingredient - disulfram - is also sold as Antabuse for use with incorrigible drunks.

It has no psychoactive effects whatsoever.

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resolved quite nicely i think

[hh339]

Interesting, I did not know that disulfram was a natural compound. As Nag said it will make you sick as fuck even with just a tiny amount of alcohol, and there's no potential for recreational use. My old man was on antabus years back. He took a few sips of light beer and became very red in the face and started throwing up. He became very sick for many hours. When he recovered, he did it all again and again and again^^ Idiot. Eventually, he learned to drink while being on antabus without getting sick, but those first weeks seemed like hell. I don't see any reason why anyone would like to eat those mushrooms, unless they need help to stay off the booze.

[Micklemouse]

Yup, you've got yerself an inkcap mate - edible before the stage you found, but again, avoid alcohol for at least 72 hours after. The black gunk is a result of the decomposition and sporing process. A fantastic fungus, but no psychoactive value, unless you count extreme vomiting. Which can be trippy, but rarely fun...

[pauny]

wow guys, thanks for all the responces!!
im back to tell you..i found another mushroom..this time the pictuers wont make u want to vomit! I noticed it growing outside my house when i was walking home, here are some pics, i have left if in the garden so it doesnt die and become all disgusting looking..

If i eat this, how much to eat? is it edible? is it going to make me vomit even if i dont have beer? will the effects be any good? Any information from you will be very useful.

[Abrad]

That could be Coprinus Comatus if I'm not mistaken. It is edible (and supposedly quite tasty). You may want to wait until somebody confirms my ID though.

[Nagognog2]

Yes WAIT! That doesn't look like a Comatus I've ever seen. And they were quite common where I was living for awhile. The Comatus I knew, and loved, where pure white in color. Do not eat this unless identified by a local expert. And posting pictures of today's find on the internet is a very, very poor substitute for hand's-on knowledge that only lots of experience and education will bring you. You are begging for a disaster doing it this way.

One way to confirm this as a Coprinus Comatus is to place one a piece of paper and wait a day or two. If it turns into an inky mess like the other one you found - it is likely Coprinus Comatus. The main identifying characteristic of Coprinus Sp. is this inky mess they turn into. Instead of releasing their spores into the air through their gills to reproduce - they turn into goo and seep back into the ground. This is why they can be found in roughly the same location year after year.

<EDIT> What the F*** program are you using to load these pictures with? It just spammed me with two large windows trying to drag me into online gambling?! Please find a better way to load your pictures.

[pauny]

hey, sorry about the image hosting, ill find a new one.
It does look like the one abrad posted, ill place some of it on a paper and wait a couple of days, if it does go like the last one, should i eat it? and what effects should i be prepared to have? sorry if im being annoying..

[Abrad]

and what effects should i be prepared to have?

If it is C. Comatus it will have no psychoactive effects, just a tasty edible. I would advise you not to eat it unless, as Nagognog said, you have it identified by an expert.

[Dj mOonShiNe]

SWIp are looking for somthing more like

Psilocybe subaeruginosa - temprate aus
http://www.hiddenforest.co.nz/fungi/fun/woodc03.htm

or
Psilocybe Cubensis - sub tropical to tropical aus
(google it)

but SWIMS advice would be to find someone who knows, and don't eat anything unless your 100%. Friends of SWIM's once ate a mushroom they thought was edible and suffered in hospital for many days due to the toxins in the mushroom poisoning their liver (this occured days after eating the mushroom that aparently tasted incredable, (incredabley good that is))

[themoors]

Originally Posted by Dj mOonShiNe

SWIp are looking for somthing more like

Psilocybe subaeruginosa - temprate aus
http://www.hiddenforest.co.nz/fungi/fun/woodc03.htm

These acctually look really tasty, certainly one of the most appealing mushrooms I have seen.

[Raz1569]

Those pics in the link look very similar to the mushrooms SWIMS been looking at lately and wanting to try out..do you think SWIM would be ok breakin a tiny piece of a mushroom washing it and eating it?

[Abrad]

do you think SWIM would be ok breakin a tiny piece of a mushroom washing it and eating it?

Absolutely not! Never eat a mushroom unless SWIY is 100% sure what it is.

[Thirdedge]

Apart from identifcation why eat something rotten anyway? Would you make a rotten salad sandwich from your compost bin?

As a stupid teenage Swimmer Swim used to pick the old half rotten shrooms as well, chuck em in the bag, theyre all magic aye . . .
Once after consuming enough for a few days he stashed the remaining shrooms in his top drawer. When he went to get them a couple of days later all that remained was a pile of maggots, presumably which had come from the half eaten/rotten shrooms.

[Nagognog2]

One would likely be better off eating the writhing maggots than eating the unidentified mushroom.

[swiftbandit1]

Hello, SWiM went Mushroom hunting today for the first time, he had previously gone 3 times without success, but today he found alot of mushrooms, but there seems to be 4 different kinds that he found, in the same field.
he has posted pictures of the four different bunches he found, SWiM was wondering if anyone could tell me exactly which mushrooms are which, thanks.

1. These are the first bunch of mushrooms he started finding.

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n...1/Image000.jpg


2. He started finding these mushrooms along with some others, he said they seem really dark and fall apart easily.

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n...1/Image001.jpg

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n...1/Image002.jpg


3. These mushrooms seemed the most like active mushrooms that he had seen before, although he couldn't find alot of them

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n...1/Image003.jpg


4. He found a few of these on the way back, just thought he would see what they where.

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n...1/Image004.jpg


Thats all the mushrooms SWiM has found today, if anyone could get back to me to tell me which mushrooms they where it would be greatly appreciated, sorry about the picture quality they where taken on SWiM's mobile.

Thanks.

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[Micklemouse]

Image 002 - bottom right maybe...

Image 003 - top left could be...

Otherwise, sorry, but the rest look nothing like Liberty Caps. A Certain Mouse suggests buying a mushroom field guide, & checking out Erowid's fantastic mushroom vaults for the mushrooms SWiYou won't find in yer average field guide.

[Nagognog2]

No one could give a positive ID of a mushroom based on a picture. If you are not educated enough to properly identify mushrooms in the field, you have no business ingesting them - leave alone giving them to friends. Get some good books. Take a course in mycology at your local university. And/or join a local mushroom club for guidance. Otherwise you may end up needing a liver transplant - or worse.

[swiftbandit1]

yeah SWiM is going to get himself a field guide, at least he kinda knows where they grow now, i know pictures arnt the best ways of identifying them but i thought i would try, also SWiM wouldnt give them to my friends lol, they would be His, nevermnd i'm sure he will try again next week. Thanks and if anyone else could identify them from the pictures it would be of great use, thankyou.

[Nagognog2]

If anyone does say they can - don't you believe it!! I've been studying mycology for 30 years, and I wouldn't even venture a try. You would need MUCH more information than even the best quality photograph could supply. Such as: Spore print. Microscopic details from spore print. Close-up of gill-structure to examine. Etc.

[swiftbandit1]

were eatin em

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[Micklemouse]

Stop it! Stop it now! SWiYou're eating random mushrooms, found in a field, in a random part of the country where for all we know Liberty Caps might not even grow, with no positive identificaton on any of them? SWiYou've already been told by people that have experience that this is not a good idea, & that the likelihood of any of the 'Shrooms shown being Liberty Caps is slim. Good luck - SWiyou may need it. At best absolutely nothing apart from a slightly disgusting taste may be expected. As Nag stated, SWiYou may find a liver transplant is necessary at the end of this little foolhardy episode, if lucky.

It is best not to even touch a fungus unless absolutely certain it isn't poisonous. Remember that not all toxins are apparent straight away. Some may take a while to kick in, some may need a bit of alcohol to make themselves known.

To repeat a phrase oft used in this context - There are old mushroom hunters, there are brave mushroom hunters. There aren't that many old, brave mushroom hunters.

[Jatelka]

Originally Posted by Micklemouse

To repeat a phrase oft used in this context - There are old mushroom hunters, there are brave mushroom hunters. There aren't that many old, brave mushroom hunters.

SWIJ guesses the OP may shortly be joining the latter category:

Maybe he just wants to die in liver failure.

[Micklemouse]

Swiftbandit? Swiftexit may be a more fitting user-name. Is that an ambulance I hear..?

Why do we bother, J? Wanders off with a shake of the head & a slap of the hand to the forehead...