Outdoor foraging season 2024 — reports and ID help
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Season thread for 2024. Post your finds, ID questions, and location reports (general — no specific GPS). Pacific Northwest starting to come alive. What are people seeing?
Portland area: first wavy caps (P. cyanescens) sightings in wood chip beds, mid-October. Important reminder: always make a spore print. Galerina marginata is in the same habitat. Purple-brown = Psilocybe. Rusty = Galerina. Non-negotiable.
UK liberty cap report: south Wales, coastal pasture, good flush coming in. All the usual advice: look for the pointed papilla, check for the slender stem, confirm in the hand.
Pacific Northwest: wet October so far, good for cyanescens and azurescens beds. Reminder that P. azurescens is significantly more potent than P. cyanescens — multiple hospitalizations annually from azurescens dosed as cyanescens equivalent.
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