On the pictures the trivial names explain themselves: Blue Bald, Blue-Green Spotted, or Blue Staining Bald actually like almost by themselves, that's why we couldn't withhold these pictures from you. Sometimes Psilocybe cyanescens is called sticky head because of its sticky cap surface.

At this spot almost all fruiting bodies were very blue and this was already before the first night frosts. We could also find some specimens which were not blued, so we will test them separately from the others. Nice to see are also the small wood chips that obviously serve as substrate here. What are your experiences, do you also often experience that many specimens of this mushroom species are already so strongly blued?  

Short profile of Psilocybe cyanescens: 

Morphology: cap 1-7 cm wide, often curved, smeary, hygrophanous, hazel, dry yellowish, ocher, grayish-ochre to grayish-brown. Lamellae inverted ingrown, cinnamon brown, maroon to grayish brown, sometimes umber brown, margins paler. Peduncle 6-8 x 0.2-0.5 cm, rather stiff, whitish, depressed or older from base of peduncle, sometimes bluish. Velum whitish. Odor dull, potato-like.

Occurrence: Rare in small and large groups in rural places, on and beside sparse forest trails, and in parks. Saprobiont on rotting wood and plant parts.

General distribution: Holarctic, North America (USA), North Africa (Morocco), Europe, reported from southern (Sardinia, Italy, Serbia), western (France, Netherlands, Great Britain) and central Europe (Switzerland, Germany, Czech Republic). Rare but widespread in Germany.

We ask you with the listed information not simply to go into the woods and collect wild mushrooms. The variety of the mushroom world is enormous and it can come here fast to dangerous confusions. Especially with regard to Galerina marginata, Inocybe sp. or many other poisonous mushrooms. Please take this into account and take care of yourself.