Shroom

One mushroom that's been particularly thin on the ground this year (at least about my roams) has been the Liberty Cap (Psilocybe semilanceata), you get years like that, the conditions just haven't been right. Though I feel inconsistency is becoming the norm, a consequence of the seasons slipping out of phase to to climatic change maybe. 

Psilocybe season

 

Magic mushrooms or Liberty Caps (Psilocybe semilanceata)

And like magic

The rain has brought a little mushroom magic out in the forest; I saw a dozen or so Liberty Caps or Magic Mushrooms (Psilocybe semilanceata) on our wander this morning, no edibles though. We need a little more rain yet I reckon, there may be standing water here and there but the ground remains solid underfoot.

Doors of perception

 

There are several keys that open the doors of perception.

Psilo-season

The Psilocybe semilanceata are arriving late again in the forest this year. They favour a wetter September, a thing we've not had for a few years now, as it is they're still very few in number and limited to pockets of longer wetter grass, the ground remaining too dry for the most part. As with all fungi I'm constantly amazed at the range of shape and form in which each species manifests. In cropped grass  usually quite small and uniform, although amongst the longer grass the uniformity of Psilocybe semilanceata's size and shape goes right out of the window.