Psilocybin mushrooms common in this area are called “purple caps”. They don’t look like the muchroom in my picture above but they do have purple/brown caps.
What genus/species are you referring to – Psilocybe ssp? Can you send a picture?
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they sure do look like it. are there any lookalikes in your area?
where I live the safe ones are chanterelle, morel, Chicken of the woods, and bolete. nothing else here looks like them out in nature. if you live where there’s only oyster mushrooms that look like this then that’s probably what you’ve got there.
I “plant” mushrooms on my beds- winecap, blue and Italian oysters. I know where I put them so if they pop up I know I can eat them. I tried with a morel spawn bag too, in one spot. did you put spore or spawn for a yellow oyster out?
i don’t think we have anything here that looks like the golden oyster. i did some more reading and they are definitely the golden. They are covering a dead elm tree and i did not plant the mycelium. i’ve done oysters, winecaps, and others here with varying success.
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It’s golden oyster. I have tons of them in the woods.
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Where do these grow in the woods? Here I’ve harvested a plain white oyster on sugar maple. I assumed that Golden was a trade item.
Yes I planted them on big fallen poplar trees. In about three years my other oysters were gone but golden keeps coming in overwhelming quantities.
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Ah, ok, you planted them. Here we don’t have enough soft hardwoods such as poplar or willow for that to be a viable strategy.
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I know very little about mushrooms. Can someone ID this one? Found it growing on a piece of firewood oak I think.
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looks like oyster to me
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All mushrooms are edible…sometimes only once!!! 