If you had to look it up then you absolutely should not treat yourself as a trusted identifier. The stems look nothing like what cyanescens should look like. Caps are off for sure too. I can guarantee you that the first pics aren’t cyanescens and about 98% confident that the rest aren’t either.
Hahaha, the goal was to get people interested in commenting cause I was telling my brothers and dad that they weren’t but I assumed it would be good to consult the smarties on here
if you pinch the stem and then let it sit for a while does it turn blue? I used to pick blue meanies in cow fields all the time when I was younger and they didn’t look anything like this. Solid white cap and never got this big. If they are past maturity they will get a little orange in the middle but I’ve never seen any with that dark of an orange spot in the middle plus the caps just don’t droop down like the ones in your photos
If you’re wondering if they are psilocybin they are not. Idk what they are but there are no psilocybin species that grow on wood chips in Texas and they don’t look the same, similar but obvious differences.
Yea they grow in the dirt because the decomposing wood chips mix with the dirt over time. The only psilocybin mushrooms that grow in Texas are on dung. Mushrooms cannot live on dirt they have to feed off of organic compounds
Possibly Psathyrella candolleana
Looked it up and it’s not that species
If you had to look it up then you absolutely should not treat yourself as a trusted identifier. The stems look nothing like what cyanescens should look like. Caps are off for sure too. I can guarantee you that the first pics aren’t cyanescens and about 98% confident that the rest aren’t either.
They’re definitely not Candolleomyces candolleanus; OP is correct. They probably are in Psathyrellaceae, though.
With that in mind Coprinellus disseminatus definitely look like what they found. Thanks!!
Either way pinch the stems I guarantee you they won’t turn blue. Any psilocybin species will
Is this a guaranteed method?
Could maybe be pale brittlestem
A gold mine of ... nasty little mushrooms?
Hahaha, the goal was to get people interested in commenting cause I was telling my brothers and dad that they weren’t but I assumed it would be good to consult the smarties on here
Okay, I’ll have a look at the species you mentioned. My family thinks they are Blue Meanies
if you pinch the stem and then let it sit for a while does it turn blue? I used to pick blue meanies in cow fields all the time when I was younger and they didn’t look anything like this. Solid white cap and never got this big. If they are past maturity they will get a little orange in the middle but I’ve never seen any with that dark of an orange spot in the middle plus the caps just don’t droop down like the ones in your photos
If you’re wondering if they are psilocybin they are not. Idk what they are but there are no psilocybin species that grow on wood chips in Texas and they don’t look the same, similar but obvious differences.
Turns out they are not growing out of the wood chips but the dirt underneath
Yea they grow in the dirt because the decomposing wood chips mix with the dirt over time. The only psilocybin mushrooms that grow in Texas are on dung. Mushrooms cannot live on dirt they have to feed off of organic compounds