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21-10-2009, 12:01 AM
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I've been Out and About this weekend and noticed there's Alot of Magic Mushrooms springing up all over the place in Yorkshire...  
Seems to be a bumper year in some parts |
21-10-2009, 12:11 AM
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And so you 'collected' them all together to hand in to your local police station.
That's the spirit. 
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21-10-2009, 12:56 AM
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And they were probably growing next to Panaeolus and Stropharia, so you could have given the police a varied collection, given them extra paperwork to do, kept them occupied all day  . And if you/they were lucky maybe a few Hygrocybe psittacina too. Also Conocybe which are also abundant right now. As some of those are killers, they should be locked up too. |
21-10-2009, 09:24 AM
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Originally Posted by BloomingMarvellous  I've been Out and About this weekend and noticed there's Alot of Magic Mushrooms springing up all over the place in Yorkshire...
Seems to be a bumper year in some parts | I started coming across these last Monday (Sussex).
I doubt many people can compete with this... Can anyone help identify please ?
...though. One has to wonder how many people on said "estate" know what they are!
Last edited by Geoff23; 21-10-2009 at 09:26 AM.
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21-10-2009, 01:29 PM
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Originally Posted by BloomingMarvellous I've been Out and About this weekend and noticed there's Alot of Magic Mushrooms springing up all over the place in Yorkshire...
Seems to be a bumper year in some parts | Seen quite a few (70+) of these recently in a very dry New Forest.... i expect after some appreciative rainfall (like yesterday) the grasslands of the New Forest will be carpeted in these and others.
Its totaly normal for them at this time of year to spring up.... my advice is to leave them be and don't tell anybody were you found them because they will, depending who they are, either pick or destroy them 
Mycelium networks of these can be many 100's of years old - and be killed of in a season or too They are like other fungi an important part of the Eco-System. Bugs for instance lay eggs in them... such as flies for example and the maggots eat the fungi. |
21-10-2009, 01:40 PM
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I would think people have better things to do than to go around pulling blades of grass apart and 'destroying' something so insignificant.
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21-10-2009, 04:02 PM
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I have Psilocybe semilanceata on my back lawn. The new Collins guide says it is illegal to possess them. As I have paid off the mortgage I am not sure where that leaves me legally. Perhaps I should look up the visiting times at Walton Prison...I don't want to get too lonely. |
21-10-2009, 04:22 PM
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I don't think you'll get locked up Treecreeper s'long as you leave 'em in the lawn - after all "possess" means to have something in your possession, and you don't exactly "possess" the birds and the insects which visit your garden, do you....?
Er.... unless, of course you're making those Blackbirds into a pie! 
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21-10-2009, 08:23 PM
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Originally Posted by fairplay I would think people have better things to do than to go around pulling blades of grass apart and 'destroying' something so insignificant.
Neil. | Don't be so naive.
People who pick them for illegal purposes often pluck them and in the process take some of the mycelium with them.
...... the second most likely reason for people removing them is because they don't want people comming onto their land just to pick them... pickers might be tresspassing and or disturbing animals. So basically if the land owner removes them then there is no reason for the pickers to be there.
Though i do agree with your term Insignificant when describing these mushrooms others may not... | | |
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