nor cal?

[Anistara]

... so i was told tonight that a guy nearby says mushrooms grow on his property, he has like 40 acres or thereabouts. i know that morel season was a couple of months ago and i've seen a few species otherwise (boletas and the usual suspects in forests). but it was said that he also had magic mushies growing and for some reason i thought they didn't grow here... does anyone know how i might find out. so far, all my friends have said they don't, but i don't think they know fer realz... i wasn't convinced... i am now living near mount shasta i haven't hunted in years, but how fun that would be!!

i know the guy is new to the fungi and he's just doing research. oh yes, i'll be contacting him to let him let me be his field guide...

[boomer2]

... so i was told tonight that a guy nearby says mushrooms grow on his property, he has like 40 acres or thereabouts. i know that morel season was a couple of months ago and i've seen a few species otherwise (boletas and the usual suspects in forests). but it was said that he also had magic mushies growing and for some reason i thought they didn't grow here... does anyone know how i might find out. so far, all my friends have said they don't, but i don't think they know fer realz... i wasn't convinced... i am now living near mount shasta i haven't hunted in years, but how fun that would be!!

i know the guy is new to the fungi and he's just doing research. oh yes, i'll be contacting him to let him let me be his field guide...

First, for the record, Boletas is spelled as Boletus, no a in the word, and for short some say Boletes when referring to the genus.  And Boletus grow everywhere beginning about now.  Until the freeze.

I doubt that Liberty Caps grow in pastures around the Shasta area of Humbolt, but they are a fall cold weather species and it is still a little too warm for them but I have not heard of anyone finding libs in that area.  When they do grow they like tall rank grasses and sedge grass and grow in manured fields and even manured lawns in parks, soccer fields, but never directly in manure.  Bt then again I do not think they are in your area. It is still to warm for them to appear.  However, they grow farther north than Shasta.

P. cyanescens, P. cyanofibrilosa, P. cyanofriscosa/cyanfriscana grow in alder twigs, branches and stems in the colder months up until the freeze, appearing in public places in major cities and towns in garden mulched areas in public parks, around condos, apartment buildings, new restaurants.  They are a cold weather species and those are potent cold weather species.  And they get extremely blue when damaged either from human handling or from natural elements such as wind, slugs chewing on them, squirrels love them and you can usually see a bluing reaction within a few minutes after squeezing them.

Magic shrooms such as those potent bluing shrooms I mentioned grow from San Francisco Bay area north to BC and are also common in quantities in Golden Gate park and other parks north of Shasta..

Blue ringers grow in lawns from Arcada/Eureka to BC.

read the field guide at http://www.mushroomjohn.org/species.htm

and there you can find the ultimate guide to shrooming in the PNW and 65 species of magic shrooms are described, of which 22 grow specifically in the PNW and they are featured with more than four thousand photographs with thumbnails that enlarge to 7 1/2 inches in height.  Learn to distinguish poisonous species from edible as well as from magic shrooms.

The site has over 14,000 photographs all related to magic mushrooms and is the largest single private free site on the internet to learn about magic shrooms.  Dozens of published papers, five books, mushroom identification for five continents.  Mushroom art, some of the most fantastic cultivation photographs ever posted on the internet in Psilocybian Mushroom Cultivation: A Brief History (212 pages and more than 380 color large photographs).
Chanterelles grow on the slopes of Shasta and matsutakes are also on the mountain, but then so are a lot of humbolt county pot growers and some do not take lightly to people prowling the woods in some areas of Shasta.

I actually saw 7 shaggy manes today and some Collybia species, the latter not edible.

Here is a good common edible, not the best but tasty with butter garlic and lemon and sliced and fried lightly. They are inky caps so you cannot boil or over cook them/

A few pictures.

Four images of Coprinus comatus on a condo lawn with automatic sprinkler systems and one which was growing in a sidewalk area where a dead tree has had all of its leaves fall to the ground.  It is  in a planter and had ivy growing from it and no one has watered the giant city planter.  In the last few weeks, I have seen several trees in Planters along sidewalks near the freeway where the city has not been watering the planters so the tree can live and grow.  Look at the size of those leaves.  The ivy also was sompletely dead. I will take a photo tomorrow of one I saw today form the bus riding to visit a friend and this was on a major street near downtown Seattle and there were six lanters with trees, the leaves all dead and the ivy completely dead in the planters, hanging over the side, a complete waste of city money to plant them in those giant sized cement flower tree planter pots and then never water them.

The fifth image is also an edible, also on a lawn in Laurelhurst near the U-District.  IT is Agaricus arvensis, a choce edible shroom. When young the gills are pure pink and then change to a beautiful chocolate-reddish-brown color.  AS seen in the image.

So let me post these and then I crash.

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And this one was the one growing along the sidewalk near the building with a tree planter with a dead tree and dead leaves for lackof water.

[boomer2]

Well I was wondering why it would not post the other picture and I forgot I can only post 3 images at a time.

So here is a shaggy mane growing from a sidewalk curb in a crack in the street amongst a gathering of dead leaves due to a potted tree planter which has not been watered for a month at least.  Cool thing about Coprinus comatus (shaggy mane) is that they will grow from cracks in sidewalks against brick walls and other tight unbeliable locations where cement is common and cracks are perfect places for the growth of this species.  While I lost hundreds of photos and negatives when I moved from Hawaii to Seattle, I had some really beautiful photos of shaggy mane fairy rings in park lawn areas.\So here is the last of the shags from today.

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And now for a beautiful tasty mushroom. I sliced this up with some gravy, garlic and butter and served it on a half-pound burger today and it was truly scrumptuous .  This is Agaricus arvensis. This shroom begans with pure beautiful pink gills, which will, with age, turn to a beautiful shade of chocolate-reddish-brown colored gills.  I love the colors of this species.  Sometimes I have cubes that get this color of sorts and even some that get and orangy-brown color.

Agaricus arvensis:

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Both of those species can be found in California at this time of the year.

Good luck

boomer2

[Amomynous]

...sometimes I wish I lived in the PNW. I live in one of those God forsaken areas where no mushrooms grow (unless you count Amanita p., which isn't the same and I would in no way feel comfortable trying to ID them)...

[Anistara]

thanks boomer! and just a poke-- i do not eat fungus unless they're magic. i admire the tenacity of folks who are really into them, i can't stand the taste  unless theres an excessive amount of garlic and butter, in that case, short changing... and thats why i can't spell boleteus right, i think its chantrelles i've seen, dying off at the tail end of season around here. i live near castle crags state park. shasta is a huge place and kinda inland compared to eureka and bc. i lived in seattle for some time and was an avid picker (and know my species well in that area so long as they have psychedelic value) and is along the coastal regions, so i guess thats what im wondering, if im too far inland. another person had said that they don't grow between here and portland and i'm wondering how or why that could be!? i hope its wrong info and look forward to rainy seasons ahead!

 i love the pix and admire fungus as masters of the universe!
(too much tedtalks perhaps!)
i'm taking photography this semester (i have to get a 35mm, weird!) and will keep it close by when hunting!

[Anistara]

then so are a lot of humbolt county pot growers and some do not take lightly to people prowling the woods in some areas of Shasta. <<

lol... this is true for everyone who is managing the green economy in some of the poorest counties in california, the underground is alive... shastafaerian...

*edit* humbolt is not shasta (county) redding is shasta county, humbolt is humbolt county, mine is siskiyou,  and mount shasta is not in shasta county but siskiyou county, confusing county lines. humbolt is about 4 hours from my locale, so most growers are not related really. humbolt is a part of the "emerald triangle" while we are not. which means-- humbolt gets more rain than we do, thus, better mycology most likely, at least for what i'm looking for-- but i don't want to rule out opportunity!! i haven't heard of liberty caps at all in california.

upon further investigation, it states you are an expert boomer... with that, my next question is, most of the info refers to SF to the oregon border or the PNW, including oregon. what comes to immediate mind is the coast. we are about 4 hours east of the water, at about 2200 feet. does this matter? i know i'm just gonna have to aim and shoot when the rains come. just trying to get informed the best i can before i venture out! thanks again... (and its mostly forest and waterfalls where i live, that seems handy for faerie magick...

[boomer2]

The epicenter of the shroom growth is along and inside the I-5 Corridor between the Cascades and the Olympics in the west.  Although the Oregon coastal area from Florence to Hammond/Astoria is great for P. semilanceata, P. strictipes, P. cyanescens and the famous P. astoriensis (now officially named as P. azurescens). and P. beaocystis are common.

Also any haystacks in Oregon west of the Moutains between I-5 and 99 West,  you can find pounds of Panaeolus subbalteatus in the spring months before the heat and in the earlly raiiny fall months.

boomer2

[Anistara]

yes! thanks again! i am inspired by your photos and watched stamets ted talk on mycology for a re-boot of the essential  system as a whole. whatever i do, i am def recharged to learn different species and to shoot em!!

[Bram_]

I have seen liberty caps in central oregon and i have seen p. cyanescens, p. stuntzii in southern oregon and PLENTY of hallucinogenic species here in the valley.  with my favorite being p. silvatica.