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View the spoiler for my guess at what I think it might be, but please first come to your own conclusion before looking at mine — I don't want to bias your guess.

My guessPsilocybe cyanescens


They were found in mid-november in the Salish Coast region of Cascadia. They were growing out of woodchips composed of a mixture of western hemlock (majority), and western red cedar.

Side view of one full mature specimen:

A group with a sample of the substrate (the cap appears to be umbonate):

A closeup side view, and internal view of the stem (it appears to be hollow):

Cross section of the gills — they appear to be adnate, or sub-decurrent:

Underside of view of the gills:

Spore print (first on white background (the split is due to two halves), second on a black background):

Examples specimens once dried:

Examples of the colony, and the location/substrate in which it was growing:


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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Not a mycologist, but those do look like Psilocybe Cyaanescens / Wavy Caps to me.

One of the defining traits of Pailocybin mushrooms is that they bruise blue where touched / handled / damaged, but that doesn’t seem evident in these pictures.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

the spore print is also brown here, but should be purple-ish black if it were Psilocybe spp., also the stipe looks wrong for that ID - I would say definitely not Psilocybe cyanescens (not just because they're not bruising blue / purple / black).

[–] Kalcifer 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I would say definitely not Psilocybe cyanescens

Would you by chance have a guess as to what they might actually be?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

it's what we call in the field call "LBMs", little brown mushrooms 😆 It's not worth trying to ID to species, and often isn't easy to do. There are certain mushrooms I don't try that for, LBMs and Russulas are often the kinds of mushrooms I don't bother with.

My suggestion is to find a local mycology group where you can join them on forays and learn how to ID mushrooms.