Finally!!! After many, many years of searching & researching of the Psilocybe mushroom family, I finally have found one of the Psilocybe specie. This discovery made me feel overwhelmingly happy! During many years I've been watching videos, reading articles & books, encountering people who claimed & indeed hunt & picked psilocybin mushrooms & I was asking for their help & some of them really offered it in the form of instructions but no one really showed me any specific habitat, pointed the finger & told me: "This is the one!"
Still I have some extremely educated mushroom hunters here on Balkans who I even never have met eyes to eyes but we are often in contact via Messenger or other chat apps where we can share media & knowledge.
Psilocybe serbica is a growing out of the rotting wood pieces, trunks or logs of different level of decay. They most often grow in groups, so on one place you can find many specimen.
Very important is to know that there is another mushroom look-a-like that is deadly poisonous & highly often mistaken with the wood-growing psilocybin mushrooms - it is called Galerina marginata. So, before picking the so called little brown mushrooms beware of correctly identifying the species you are looking for! I would say: "Be 120 % sure that the specie is the one you're looking for! Do not touch any mushroom that you don't know!" Just one little mistake can kill you & there were many cases of mistaken already!
Sometimes it is also growing alone on the piece of the trunk but still often nearby you can find more specimen.
This specie is sharing habitat with many mushrooms cause many other species like to feast with dead, decomposing wood pieces. Till now, most of the habitats I have found were located near the streams of water, next to the forest roads which were or still are used for transporting wood out of the forest. These places must hold humidity on high level all year long in order for this specie can thrive. They also avoid direct Sun light. They like mixed forest of beech & different pine (fir, spruce) in the mountain regions higher than 500 m over sea level. Even thou they like mixed forests, I only found them growing on the pine trunks & logs. Their favorite time is autumn & lower temperatures around 7°C, around the 1st appearance of frost.
One of the best article about the specie I've found recently & you can read it here: https://doubleblindmag.com/psilocybe-serbica-psilocybe-bohemica/
The upper shots I made with Nikon Z6 & Sigma 105 mm DG Macro HSM. For the self-portrait below I used the older Nikon D800 & Nikon AF Nikkor 35-70 mm lens.
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