Mushrooms in woods of NC this time of year?

Hey! While walking through the woods today with my girlfriend we came upon some mushrooms which look exactly like psilocybe caerulipes. It was pretty moist out toda and there's this trail which has a bunch of leaf mulch and sticks from the trees above and we found these little shrppms here in Winston Salem in the middle part of NC this time of year. Do you think they are caerulipes or cubenisis or another psilocybe shroom? They look exactly like them. I won't try eating any until I'm 100% sure though. Could they be something else active that looks the same like caerulescens? I'll get a pic up soon.

Also, I don't see and blue bruising yet. how long till they will have bruised? If they don't bruise, are they dfinitely not psychoactive?

 

Don't eat them unless you are 100%. I am doubting them personally.

 

post some pictures bra

 

Take a spore print from each one. That's gonna help a lot. Do it on white paper. Look up all the ID characteristics of the mushroom you want and all its look-alikes. Post pics here, and also try posting some on Shroomery.org. Some people there specialize in IDing mushrooms.

 

Well psilocybe caerulipes are very rare and are most often psilocybe ovoideocystidiata and many times psilocybe ovoideocystidiata dont bruise blue at all. Look them both up on the shroomery and on wikipedia.

Here is the description from wikipedia for psilocybe caerulipes-

Psilocybe caerulipes is found from August to October, on hardwood slash and debris, plant matter, on or about decaying hardwood logs, birch, beech and maple, especially along river systems. From Maine to North Carolina, west to Michigan, has also been found as far north as Ontario Canada and as far south as Mexico. A delicate and small mushroom, it can grow on leave stems. It grows solitary or in small groups. It is often overlooked as just another little brown mushroom, although widely distributed, it is not found often. It is sometimes confused with the larger Psilocybe ovoideocystidiata.

Here is the description from wikipedia for psilocybe ovoideocystidiata-

Psilocybe ovoideocystidiata is a psilocybin-containing mushroom first documented in Pennsylvania and also known from Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia. This mushroom bruises blue where handled and has been put into the Stuntzii section of Psilocybe because it has subrhomboid thick walled spores and an annulus. It is closely related to to P. subaeruginascens from Java, P. septentrionalis from Japan, and P. wayanadensis from India.

This mushroom was first documented by Richard V. Gaines in Montgomery County in June of 2003 and has become common in the Ohio river valley.

Its range and appearance are similar to Psilocybe caerulipes, and it can be distinguished by its rhomboid spores and membranous annulus.

Some specimens of Psilocybe ovoideocystidiata turn blue immediately when bruised, while others have a delayed or almost absent bluing reaction. The mushroom often turns blue in the absence of bruising as it dries out.