Hi! After a couple days of rain, my front yard jungle started fruiting something. These things were really small, like largest cap measuring 1cm diameter, maybe even less. [...] Any ideas?

I also found a couple of other kind of orange mushrooms in the same habitat. These felt incredibly fragile and the base of the stem was bluing like crazy. Unfortunately I accidentally dropped the stem when it got detached from the cap and couldn't find it anymore. Gills were cinnamon brown. Camera ran out of battery when I was about to take a picture. Possible Conocybe cyanopus or something like that? Need to go find more when it stops raining.

Pholiotina cyanopus was collected from wood chips and other woody remnants of undetermined tree species. Its basidiomata were found in June within the area of closed sawmill in the central part of Żywiec city (SW Poland). Description and illustration of Ph. cyanopus based on Polish specimens are provided and its ecology, general distribution and comparison with similar taxa – Pholiotina smithii, Pholiotina sulcatipes, and others are discussed as well. The identity of the active compounds of Ph. cyanopus was additionally determined. Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC-MS) data sets were obtained to support the occurrence of psilocybin and its analogues – psilocin, baeocystin, norbaeocystin, and aeruginascin in air-dried basidiomata of the species. The content of psilocybin was found to be high (0.90±0.08% of dry weight), besides, analysed samples contained lower concentrations of psilocin (0.17±0.01%), and baeocystin (0.16±0.01%). Additionally, the chemical analysis revealed small amounts of norbaeocystin (0.053±0.004%) and aeruginascin (0.011±0.0007%) for the first time in the species.

A typical recreational dose of pure psilocybin is 6 to 20 mg. It results in mild psychotic effect, usually experienced as a pleasure (so called ‘good trip’). If we even consider that the content of active indolic compounds that makes up to 1% of the weight of the dry basidiomata and that a dry Ph. cyanopus weights ca. 40 mg, then, this species bears approximately 0.4 mg of psilocybin. Thus, ingestion of fifteen to fifty dried specimens of the species is necessary for similar effects.