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Recognizing a contamination

How do you recognize a contamination?
Most contaminations are pretty easy to recognize. The mycelium of mushrooms has a completely white color. If you see any other color in the mycelium, you can consider this, in most cases, as a contamination.

And of course every rule has its exception:
The color blue. When the mycelium of the Psilocybe cubensis has been bruised, it turns bluish. This is no contamination and has no consequences for the quality of the mycelium.

A lot of contaminations can also be discovered by their strange penetrating smell.