Liberty Cap – Magic Mushroom’s

Liberty Caps contain the active ingredients psilocybin and psilocin, which can cause hallucinations.

The cap can vary in shape, size and colour. When young it is translucent brown and will stay brown if the weather is wet, if the cap dries it becomes buff/white/grey/silver but almost always has a darker to black bottom edge.

The cap has a ‘nipple’ which can be quite pronounced or barely present and the bottom edge always tucks under. When fresh, the cap has a translucent covering that, if you are very careful, can be peeled away.

Liberty caps assumes different colors depending on its state of hydration is known as (hygrophanous,). When it is moist, the cap is ochraceous to pale brown to dark chestnut brown. But darker in the center, often with a greenish-blue tinge. When moist, radial grooves (striations) can be seen on the cap that corresponds to the positions of the gills underneath. When the cap is dry, it becomes much paler, a light yellow-brown color.

Moist mushrooms have sticky surfaces that result from a thin gelatinous film called a pellicle. This film becomes apparent if a piece of the cap is broken by bending it back and peeling away the piece. When the cap dries from exposure to the sun, the film turns whitish and is no longer peelable.  On the underside of the mushroom’s cap, there are between 15 and 27 individual narrow gills that are moderately crowded together, and they have a narrowly annexed to almost free attachment to the stipe. Their color is initially pale brown but becomes dark gray to purple-brown with a lighter edge as the spores mature.

The slender yellowish-brown stipe is 45–140 mm (1.8–5.5 in) long by 1–3.5 mm (0.04–0.14 in) thick, and usually slightly thicker towards the base. The mushroom has a thin cobweb-like partial veil that does not last long before disappearing; sometimes, the partial veil leaves an annular zone on the stipe that may be darkened by spores. The flesh is thin and membrane-like, and roughly the same color as the surface tissue.

It has a farinaceous (similar to freshly ground floor) odor and taste. All parts of the mushroom will stain a bluish color if handled or bruised, and it may naturally turn blue with age. (LIBERTY CAP)