When Do Magic Mushrooms Start Growing?
This is a question a lot of magic mushroom hunters ask. Like any living creatures, there are times when magic mushrooms grow most sporadically. Some people spend hours combing through deciduous forests which ideally provide the right conditions for magic shrooms to grow but they still go home empty handed.
Understanding when magic mushrooms start growing is crucial to success and pockets full of psilocybin mushrooms.
Before you go out in full mushroom hunting gear, check your calendar and local weather station. If you’re in luck, they could be growing in your background right now.
Seasons when magic mushrooms grow
Some seasons provide the right amount of sunlight, humidity, and temperature to allow magic mushrooms to grow. Not all types of magic mushrooms grow at the same time of the year though. Some species will grow during specific seasons in specific locations only.
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Psilocybe cubensis. The most common magic mushr oom can be found year-round in a lot of countries particularly in the tropics and subtropical environments in the Americas and Asia. In the US, these mushrooms can also be found in the river valleys and highlands of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It’s worth noting that this hallucinogenic mushroom can be seen scattered, grouped, or clustered on cow dung. They tend to pop up 2 or 3 days after heavy rain in pastures.
Psilocybe mexicana Growing in small groups among moss and along roadsides, this is one of the magic mushrooms capable of producing truffles or sclerotia. These sclerotia grow underground and have the same hallucinogenic capabilities as the fruiting body that grows above ground. You can hunt for Psilocybe mexicana and dig around for truffles in deciduous forests between May and October in Mexico, Costa Rica, and Guatemala.
Psilocybe semilanceata Psilocybe semilanceata fruits solitarily or in groups in grasslands, meadows, pastures and lawns. Although it doesn’t grow directly on dung, it’s often found in pastures which have been fertilized with sheep or cow dung. This is also another species capable of growing truffles. It’s most common in the Pacific Northwest in the United States and in other countries such as Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Spain Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Psilocybe semilanceata fruits in these countries abundantly in autumn and early winter. On rare occasions, they also fruit during spring.
Psilocybe cyanescens This mushroom fruits between late October and February in the Pacific Northwest south to the San Francisco Bay Area. It can also be found in areas such as Western Europe, Central Europe, New Zealand and parts of west Asia such as Iran. Psilocybe cyanescens grows in clusters, sometimes in great numbers. In one occasion, 100,000 P. cyanescens were found growing in a racetrack south of England!
Psilocybe azurescens This magic mushrooms species grows in tight, separated clusters on deciduous wood chips from late September to early January. They are most common in Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United States particularly along the West Coast. A larger population has been spotted in Ilwaco, Washington.
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