As a kid, I was taught that any gilled mushroom is an automatic “absolutely NOT” and any spongy mushroom is okay, if I recognize it and it doesn’t turn blue when I cut into it. Seems like that rule of thumb is holding up here
For legal reasons: not every blue-ing reaction has to mean Psilocybin, and not everything with Psilocybin has to be non-toxic. Don’t eat random shrooms and expect to see anything cooler than the ER. At the very least, get a reliable source of info about how to find local Psilocybe and friends, and don’t eat anything you aren’t 105% sure of what it is.
I hate that they don’t name the mushroom
Edit: it’s Paxillus Involutus
As a kid, I was taught that any gilled mushroom is an automatic “absolutely NOT” and any spongy mushroom is okay, if I recognize it and it doesn’t turn blue when I cut into it. Seems like that rule of thumb is holding up here
It’s important to know that any rule like that doesn’t necessarily hold up if you move just a few hundred kilometers.
The blue ones are the fun ones.
For legal reasons: not every blue-ing reaction has to mean Psilocybin, and not everything with Psilocybin has to be non-toxic. Don’t eat random shrooms and expect to see anything cooler than the ER. At the very least, get a reliable source of info about how to find local Psilocybe and friends, and don’t eat anything you aren’t 105% sure of what it is.