These were found in Cascadia in mid-November. What are they?
They were found in mid-november in the Salish Coast region of Cascadia. They were growing out of woodchips composed of a mixture of western hemlock (majority), and western red cedar.
Side view of one full mature specimen:
A group with a sample of the substrate (the cap appears to be umbonate):
A closeup side view, and internal view of the stem (it appears to be hollow):
Cross section of the gills — they appear to be adnate, or sub-decurrent:
Underside of view of the gills:
Spore print (first on white background (the split is due to two halves), second on a black background):
Examples specimens once dried:
Examples of the colony, and the location/substrate in which it was growing:
My initial thought was that they were Psilocybe cyanescens, but that's pretty much completely been confirmed as incorrect [1][2][3][4][5]. The current running theory is that they are Hypholoma dispersum[2][3]. What do you think they are?
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I’m sorry to disappoint you, but even though they look similar to P. cyanescens, they aren’t.
Cyans have white-ish stems, dark gills, a purple-black spore print and bruise blue almost instantly when touching them.
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Sorry to disappoint but looks like hypholoma dispersum to me.
there’s no blueing on the stems or margin in any of your photos, the ones you picked should have had stained blue anywhere you touched them
The margin isn’t translucent striate
If the cap cuticle is peelable you could make a case that it’s not Hypholoma but without any blueing it’s gonna be Deconica not Psilocybe.
[...] If I would see even a tiny speck of blue bruising I would be more inclined to agree with P. cyanescens, but I don’t see any at all, which makes me very suspicious. [...]
the spore print is also brown here, but should be purple-ish black if it were Psilocybe spp., also the stipe looks wrong for that ID - I would say definitely not Psilocybe cyanescens (not just because they’re not bruising blue / purple / black).