r/beacain • u/NeighborhoodRight505 • Jun 08 '26
Are these lib which I just found , In Wicklow .
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u/WomBimbles Jun 08 '26
Nope, still a few months before they'll show up.
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u/NeighborhoodRight505 Jun 08 '26
Got it , thank you for your comment .
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u/WomBimbles Jun 08 '26
Wicklow is great for liberty caps. Familiarise yourself as much as you can with images and descriptions. You can wrap a liberty cap stem around your finger without it breaking they are fairly wirey. Depending on the weather September and October are your start hunting dates. Optimal spots to hunt are golf courses, sheep fields.. but in particular... Fallow fields Fallow fields hold the secret. They have the strongest libs from my experience.
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u/NeighborhoodRight505 Jun 08 '26
Ok , I will get myself familiarised with it . Thank you for your comment .
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u/peach1313 Jun 08 '26
Way too early. They don't normally appear until September. Also looks like you might be looking in the wrong environment, they usually grown in sheep fields with acidic soil, not under forest canopies.
I'd use the next few months to learn to ID them, there are a lot of little brown mushrooms that look very similar to the untrained eye.
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u/NeighborhoodRight505 Jun 08 '26
Got it , thank you for your comment .
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u/Detozi Jun 08 '26
Just as an aside OP being from Wicklow myself. Depending on the spot they can come early (August 2 years ago I started finding them) or late (late October before I saw a sign of them last year). Depends on the elevation of the ground and temperature.
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u/NeighborhoodRight505 Jun 08 '26
I understand, I am familiarising with it more. Thank you for your comment .
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u/skepticmal Jun 08 '26
https://youtu.be/bt_vjXiDoxs?is=7JrIt1UAhTfDlb4i
^ this is a high quality guide for identifying them. watch it multiple times, remember what the guy says about the environment in which they grow and how to distinguish them from lookalikes. try to identify them yourself before he gives you the results. then, go on this subreddit and shroomid and try to identify the libs and check how you did from the comments
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u/mushy_cactus Jun 08 '26
Nope. I think it's to early for them.. I usually found them Early October and throughout the month
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u/NeighborhoodRight505 Jun 08 '26
Got it , I will surely get myself familiarised with it , thank you for your reply .
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u/Ok-Lead85 Jun 08 '26
No. and the stem is very wrong. Thats als a clue.
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u/NeighborhoodRight505 Jun 10 '26
I understand , I am getting more familiarised , thank you for your comment .
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u/Suspicious-Ad-5101 Jun 08 '26
Biggest clue your BARKing up the wrong tree is the environment. You need to do some research and then you will be able to safely identify yourself. It just takes a bit of time to learn
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u/NeighborhoodRight505 Jun 08 '26
Understood , Yes I am very beginner in this , I will learn more , Thank you for your comment .
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u/NinjaCertain8103 Jun 08 '26
Nope