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Mower's Mushroom
One of the commonest small brown mushrooms of lawns, with a bell-shaped to convex, hygrophanous cap that dries in bands from dark brown to tan, mottled brown gills and a dark brown spore print. It often appears in large numbers in mown or recently fertilized grass. It contains at most trace amounts of psilocybin and produces no noticeable effects, although older guides listed it as psychoactive.
Not edible. It contains serotonin-related compounds and at most trace psilocybin, with no noticeable hallucinogenic effect. The real risk is confusion: lawns also host amatoxin-containing Pholiotina rugosa and Galerina species (rusty brown spore prints) and psilocybin-containing Panaeolus cinctulus (black spores). Children who eat lawn mushrooms should be assessed by poison control.
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