Liberty Cap Spore Print Color

The pacific blue strain is an uncommon but not necessarily rare color variant with unusual bluish tones and a more hemispheric cap shape.

Liberty cap spore print color.

Do not taste psilocybe semilanceata because it is hallucinogenic and some people have required hospital treatment after eating this species. My attempt at a spore print was a bust. The gill attachment to the stem can be called adnexed or rather a very light attachemnt. Psilocybe semilanceata commonly known as the liberty cap is a species of fungus which produces the psychoactive compounds psilocybin and baeocystin it is both one of the most widely distributed psilocybin mushrooms in nature and one of the most potent the mushrooms have a distinctive conical to bell shaped cap up to 2 5 cm 1 0 in in diameter with a small nipple like protrusion on the top.

This poisonous saprobic grassland mushroom is most often found on upland pastures notably on hill slopes. Our spore prints will come on heavy duty aluminum foil and the spore prints will usually be dense with spores. It can be easy to get excited at the caramel cap color when you notice it in the field but you should know by now that that doesn t necessarily mean you ve found psilocybe. This is simultaneously confirming the correct spore color for the liberty cap as well as displaying common feature of this mushroom.

You will see the print more easily on white but any difference from black is best assessed on a black surface not sure about the global distribution of p. The gills will be somewhat crowded and turn from pale to purple brown in old age. In a few hours spores will collect on the paper according to the radiating symmetry of the gills. Liberty caps are common on the west coast of the united states particularly in the northwestern states of washington and oregon.

15 feet from garage on a very wooded lot 20 minutes from the coast. If the mushrooms have partially dried or have been refrigerated for an extended period of time you probably won t get much of a spore print. Pacific blue liberty cap spore print microscopy kit. Pacific blue liberty cap spore print microscopy kit.

If you get spores their color should be obvious. These look like panaeolus foenesecii. It would help to see the undersides and spore print color would also be useful. Habitat ecological role.

Keep in mind however that the longer the cap is left. They will very in size and it really depends on the size of the mushroom cap that drops the spores as to how big each print will be. It s extremely rare we get a complaint on one of our spore prints as we strive for high quality. Take the print on a non porous pure black surface.