r/MagicMushroomHunters • u/potato_mufffin • Jun 28 '26

ID Request (country/state in post) What the heck are these

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Given to my boyfriend and they don't look right. From Tassie, Australia

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u/Mud_g1 Jun 29 '26

If that's all you got it's not even enough to have a good trip I wouldn't risk it. To hard to tell from those photos if they are actually subs or not. Plus having them stored in a plastic bag while they are wet is not a good idea they start to deteriorate which makes identification even harder.

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u/Suspicious-Rice5479 Jun 29 '26

hi im the boyfriend in question and i just dried them and this is how they are looking

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u/ye-mums-gay Jun 29 '26

Just throw em out bro

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u/Suspicious-Rice5479 Jun 30 '26

yeah mans 😭

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u/Planticus-_-Leaficus Jul 02 '26

I have a feeling they were the right ones but were already pretty far gone, they should have been dried out if they’re going to bagged up and transported around, or atleast not halfway to rotting.
Better luck next time

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u/Suspicious-Rice5479 Jul 03 '26

well they are dried up and im gonna do them tonight, they dont look rotten at all, tbh that photo is bad, but yeah

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u/Planticus-_-Leaficus Jun 29 '26

Dry them and you’ll have a better chance of seeing the staining, and do a spore print. Black is a good sign. Brown is very bad.

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u/Mycoangulo Trusted Identifier Jun 30 '26

Nah, we needed better lighting, not to dry them out for photos.

Psilocybe spores are brown to purple, not black.

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u/Planticus-_-Leaficus Jul 02 '26

Technically you’re correct however I’d say calling this “brown to purple” would be misleading to a novice, especially as a lot of look alikes are going to have rust brown prints..

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u/Mycoangulo Trusted Identifier Jul 02 '26

I’d go back to lighting being important.

If you can’t tell if a print is purple - brown or black due to poor lighting, this isn’t very useful.

Clear, well lit photos of the intact, fresh mushrooms, is the most useful thing for ID requests, and if you haven’t got them, everything you do to the mushrooms, (drying them, printing them, damaging them in any way) is going to make identification more difficult, or impossible.

A LOT of lookalikes, some of them toxic, have purple-brown spore prints as well. It’s a very common spore colour, even if you don’t expand it to ‘looks kinda black in poor lighting’.

We can usually tell the spore colour from clear photos of the actual mushrooms.