Gold Cap photos
1.5-8 (10) cm wide, broadly conical, oval or bell-shaped (often with an umbo ) when young, gradually expanding to convex, broadly umbonate, or plane; surface smooth or with small whitish veil remnants when young, viscid when moist, soon dry, color variable: whitish with a brown to yellowish center, or entirely yellow to yellowish-buff to yellow-brown, or sometimes cinnamon-brown when young and sometimes dingy olive in old age; bruising and aging bluish; margin sometimes hung with veil remnants. Flesh firm, white, staining blue or blue-green when bruised.
by Magic Mushroom September 28, 2023
Dark purple-brown to blackish; spores 11-17×7-12 microns, elliptical, smooth, thick-walled, with a large apical germ pore. Cystidia present on faces of gills, but chrysocystidia absent.
by Magic Mushroom September 28, 2023
Bruising: blue or blue-green
Gills: adnate to adnexed or seceding to free
Stipe: 4-15 cm long, 0.4-1-5 cm thick, equal or more often thicker below, dry, white or sometimes yellowish to yellow-brown, aging or bruising blue or blue-green; smooth.
Veil: Membranous, white or bluish-stained, usually forming a thin, fragile, superior ring on stalk which is blackened by falling spores.
Mycelium: robust rhizomorphic white
Gills: adnate to adnexed or seceding to free
Stipe: 4-15 cm long, 0.4-1-5 cm thick, equal or more often thicker below, dry, white or sometimes yellowish to yellow-brown, aging or bruising blue or blue-green; smooth.
Veil: Membranous, white or bluish-stained, usually forming a thin, fragile, superior ring on stalk which is blackened by falling spores.
Mycelium: robust rhizomorphic white
by Magic Mushroom September 28, 2023
I have picked magic mushrooms on Big Island a Maui but have never found them on Oahu. Anyone know where to look?
by Mike September 28, 2023
