Mushrooms and Toadstools Everywhere

[Kiwi Pete]

 

[Greenbeast]

Heaps of them here, at certain times of the year (12°C is the 'golden' temperature for psilocybes)
Some look like Smurf's hats, as you say a nipple on top. Those are Liberty Caps, p. Semilanceata.



Also we see some Wavy Tops (p. Cubensis) around fencelines where the stock cannot trample them, cattle in particular seem particularly freaked out by saprophytic fungi in general and even kick out any field mushrooms they can.
There's been a lot of wood-based soil amendments applied here over the past 10-15 years and no soluble fert, so our soil is almost getting to that "woodland" state

Cubensis are not wavy tops, and they grow better at 22-26C (they are non-native in the UK)
I think wavy's are cyanescens, Cubes are 'golden tops' i think. The UKs most common native is the liberty cap (p. semilanceata)

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Cubensis are not wavy tops, and they grow better at 22-26C (they are non-native in the UK)
I think wavy's are cyanescens, Cubes are 'golden tops' i think. The UKs most common native is the liberty cap (p. semilanceata)

The local nickname for Liberties : "Gold Tops"
Hence why they tend to call cubensis Wavy-Tops to help differentiate, I think?

Down here we probably get a lot of similar ones to much of the UK, up north in the tropical climates they have a different selection again, including the infamous "Blue Meanies"

Rumour has it, that you don't just eat handfuls of these ones......