Warning! It’s mushy season and if you see these in fields, do not eat them. You will trip your box off. Pound for pound these are one of the most potent mushrooms you will find. People grow big massive ones from Thailand and Columbia and all sorts of tropical places. But these little European mushrooms, Liberty Caps are unique. These cant be grown indoors like the others. They need the grass network to thrive. They are only tiny compared to the other ones but they are powerful. I always identify them by their little witch looking hats with a nipple on the top. When it’s dry they are cream coloured. But when it’s been raining they turn a dark brown. You often find them in places nearby sheep or cows. All the shit makes fertile ground and the spores blow to the nearby fields and colonise the soil and out of this they will grow. There is a kind of mould underground hidden in the soil called mycelium and at this time of year the fungus start to grow out from it. When you fine one you will find many more. They all grow out of the same mycelium network. I think of it as an underground tree but instead of the fruits hanging down the fungus grows up from it. The mycelium network acts as a kind of telephone line between trees too. They call it “The Wood Wide Web”. Trees can send signals along it to each other and send nutrients to each other along it snd all sorts. Look into it if you don’t believe me. It’s fascinating. But for legal purposes I must emphasise that I am not encouraging anyone to pick them or eat them and sit around a campfire with your mates having a laugh or anything like that. That is illegal and wrong so dont do it. Dangerous too. Stay away and be aware.