Can someone help ID this mushroom species?

[Entheojen]

Edit: Just retitling and bumping this post as it got no replies. Are the photos ok? Have the mushrooms deteriorated too much?

Someone sent me these photos to ID and I would like your help! In their current state they look a bit deteriorated compared to what they did 24 hours ago. Apparently they were found in a field with grassy clumps where sheep graze up in the hills somewhere in the UK.


Can anyone confirm what they are? They look like liberty caps to me.

Is the black/dark blue on them just bruising?

 

[Entheojen]

Bump

 

[Rising Spirit]

I'm certainly no expert... but they do indeed look like Liberty Caps. My advice? Upload this same thread over at The Shroomery. You'll find a larger collective of experts in this realm of study, over yonder.

That being said, this forum and that forum do share many mutual members, so maybe someone more in-the-know will be able to help out here, at the Nexus?

BTW, they are quite lovely! 8)

 

[SHroomtroll]

Most likely liberty caps yes, i was just picking them this last weekend and those look just like the ones i found.

Def prefer them over cubes.

 

[DMTripper]

Most of them if not all are lib caps for sure

 

[idtravlr]

Yeah man, they look like P. Semilanceata or P. Pelliculosa (liberty caps). The concern is that Galerina (highly toxic) often grow in the same patch as Pelliculosa, so it's really worth checking out what you've got. Examine them thoroughly. What has me concerned is that you have one or two that look slightly different from the rest. Just take your time identifying man.

Happy journeys!!
-idt

 

[Swarupa]

I'm no expert on hunting liberty caps (yet), but i'd feel safe ingesting the ones with noticeable nipples that meet the other ID criteria, its a dead giveaway for liberty caps.

 

[Entheojen]

Yeah my friend who sent me them says they all looked the same when he picked them but they changed and bruised a good bit after leaving them a day. They all had nipples and were a light beige colour on picking with dark brown/grey colouring around the bottom of the cap. He mentioned he saw some other species of mushrooms beside the ones he picked but he left them. I sent him a picture of the galerinas and he confirmed that none of the mushrooms he picked looked like that at first, but I can see how some of them in the photo above do look like galerinas. He only picked about 5g of them (fresh) so he doesn't think that'd give much effect anyway! Thanks a lot for all the replies.

I would have posted on Shroomery but I really can't get into the way of it. It's just not as organised and easy on the eye as the Nexus lol! We are spoiled here!

 

[Dorge]

Galerina don't look anything close to either of them though. They do however look a bit like cyans...

 

[Phantastica]

they do look like liberty caps, but i can't say for sure. u can ask at mycotopia as well; they have a subforum just for species ID, and there are many experts there.
check to see if they bruise blue, and have a purple sporeprint, if u still can.. If so, then u can be almost sure that they're psilocybin shrooms.
p.s. don't consume rotten shrooms unless u like the sick/nauseous feeling in the tummeh

 

[idtravlr]

Galerina don't look anything close to either of them though. They do however look a bit like cyans...

Very true. It's just that sometimes people get "patch happy" when picking and I thought it was worthwhile to call out. Especially if one's already having identification struggles.