I had never seen one before the day that I ate some cubes and took my dogs for a walk around the neighborhood for the first time. We passed one on the way out and another on the way back. I’m not a superstitious person but I could have sworn nature was talking to me that day. In fairness, though, the psilocybin probably had a lot to do with it.
This has happened before, like 30 years ago. In Winter v. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 938 F.2d 1033 (9th Cir. 1991) it was ruled that the publisher can't be sued for selling a guide book that misled a reader into eating an extremely poisonous mushroom.
I can't find anything about the authors in that case (I think Colin Dickinson and John Lucas?) ever getting sued, probably because they were in Britain so the US courts couldn't get jurisdiction over them, unlike how it could against the publisher who did business in the US.
It’s a “fairy circle”. They are not separate mushrooms, but fruiting bodies of the same individual fungus. There’s mycelium underground that is growing each year, and the mushrooms fruit on the periphery. The center may be devoid of nutrients once the mycelium uses all, so it grows as a circle.
Alternatively, according to folklore, elves dancing around made them.
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