The nights are fair drawing in as we enter the season of mellow fruitfulness.
Not long now until the leaves start turning to golden and russet hues, with misty mornings and azure skies and the gentle nip of the cooling breeze. A prime time to forage for natures harvests, such as crab apples, rose hips and sweet chestnuts.
However the autumn season has one very abundant harvest and that is the humble mushroom.
There are many delicious mushroom for the eating of as long as you know what is what!
But there is one mushroom, I wait every year for and that is the "Liberty Cap" AKA "Psilocybe semilanceata" or just known as "Shrooms"!
So for all you lovely people in the UK, I bring to you the "Magic Mushroom Forcast"
White is a "Low chance of Shrooms" & Red is a "High Chance of Shrooms"
Edit: This is serious info and not a joke
The map is a reall mushroom map, for Psilocybe semilanceata
UK Shroom Forecast Map for 2nd October 2021
Low to high Chance of Shrooms
White = Low Chance of Shrooms - Red = High Chance of Shrooms
This is the Forcast for October the 2nd 2021
This gives you 10 days to prepare your foraging trip!
This is the forecast for the 2 October 2021.
Shrooms are likely in the Edinburgh area, the York Moors, The Pennines, The Lake District, Eastern Wales, The Mendip Hills and Dartmoor.
Sorry I don't have the data to do other parts of the world, so here is a map of likely parts of the world, where you can find magic mushrooms.
Wear water proof boots or wellies.
Collect picked mushrooms in a tub and not a plastic bag, this will keep them from sticking together.
Keep the sun to your back and you will find more.
Shrooms like unploughed pasture the more weeds the better.
Shrooms do grow on pasture but don't grow on shit, Psilocybe Semilanceata actually grows on dead grass roots! Not a lot of people know that!
Dried or fresh Psilocybe Semilanceata are illegal to pick or posses in the UK
If you pick em, don't get caught with them.
However "Fly Agaric" isn't illegal to pick but is illegal to sell for human consumption.
Fly Agaric needs to be properly cured by drying, in order to turn the Ibotenic Acid in to Muscimol.
Undried Fly Agaric will give you really bad stomach cramps, which is why is needs to be dried out thoroughly in order to get the muscimol, we need for tripping.
Anything you don't understand research on Google.
Never pick or ingest anything you can't 100% identify!
There is a ton of knowledge on the net!