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  1. Perhaps I should just put some horse manure downhill from where they have fruited. That way if they aren't alutecea no harm done. So I could cultivate them? Sounds better all the time.
  2. So if they were alutacea there are some horses down the road that wander everywhere. I've never seen any evidence of them in my place however. I'll have to go down where they are and have a look around.
  3. A.Rockefeller said if I get it done he'll help me to interpret it. So I guess it's not that straightforward. P.alutecea sounds OK. I was reading a thread on shroomery and they were getting heaps of them off horse dung. The NZ's were saying they don't turn blue easily but they were pretty good otherwise. I just need a bigger area than where they were. So next season might be really interesting.
  4. I went past the spot and the one that came up 7 days ago is still there intact. It looks the same size wise. No bluing. They only blue from injury. There is a photo on p1 of a little one on its side showing greenish blue colouration on the side of the cap where it had been pressing against a stick. Where they are still has visible water on the ground. Where there is no visible water there are tiny ice crystals. A wee little one is there today about 2 feet from the week old one. We get very heavy dew here. Still not sure if that's the reason why the water is there though. The habitat is on top of red clay so it holds water well. Still it might be a spring there because everywhere else is drying out from not having rain. All the P.subaeruginosa died out weeks ago from the cold. Looks like a long wait until the next season unless I can these little brown mushrooms elsewhere.
  5. TimmiT has all the specimens. A.Rockefeller suggested alba.es which costs 20 dollars for DNA sequencing. I sent that message to TimmiT. Can't quite follow P.alutacea for macroscopic ID. The stem on mine matches the colour of the cap when wet. When drier the cap goes white yet the stem remains dark. The stem is really pliable and thin. The ones I picked in Qld resemble P.samuiensis. These don't for the first two reasons mentioned above. If DNA testing was needed to differentiate between P.alutacea and P.samuiensis then they must look quite similar. When I used to pick pineforest psilocybes P.pelliculosa? they would have a white cap if the weather was dry. Here is another idea. As P.subaeruginosa can fruit in eucalypt and pineforest maybe there is another type of Psilocybe species native to Australia that can exist in a variety of habitats. Endless speculation from me until DNA sequencing. I am prone to speculation because I've picked species that look like P.alutacea,samuiensis,strictipes and pelliculosa.
  6. Thank's ferret. Only one fruited in the last week. Hopefully they'll be back next season. That would be great for you to have a look at them.
  7. I'm not sure how to edit my text via my mobile. Until I do my apologies for leaving words out etc.
  8. I'm interested to find out even if they are a known species. I'd prefer that in fact. Then I would know their prefered habitat. An unknown would appeal more to academics so they have a new species to study. Either way it will fun finding out.
  9. Sagittatius rules thighs and hips I think. I know being a Capricorn I was always having trouble with my knees before I got into tai chi. I think a lot of my knee trouble come from swimming when I was young. I was a breaststroke swimmer. Back in the day when the style of kick caused people to end up having knee surgery. If I'm thankful for anything its that tai chi fixed my knees. Astrologers say moon rules emotions. Being an Aries moon I've hit my head by accident that many times when I've been a bit worked up.
  10. Inski guess was P.strictipes. TimT from shroomery has been a great help. He was saying he will get them DNA sequenced if Alan is too busy. These mushrooms have a really thick gelatinous pellicle. I collected some specimens and had them in a metal bowl. The caps stuck like they had glue on them. Have a look at the cluster of 10 and you'll see what I mean if it's magnified a bit. I know P.strictipes fits the bill with the seperable gelatinous pellicle along with P.semilancesta and P.pelliculosa. There are radiata pines on another property around here. When I google pelliculosa its stem looks a different colour along with its a pineforest psilocybe species. The ones I found at Dalmorton had a similar cap. Their stem was greyish white though. They went straw colour as they dried. These go really white on a sunny day. Yet they retain the dark stem.
  11. To me they are a blend of both. I think the mix is there in all sagittarians. Like you meet the philosopher intellectual type. Next thing aftet getting to know them you find out that they into some energetic sport or hobby. The sporty ones when engaged in a philosophical debate show their other side. I think that they were just into being physical but now they surprise me. Been around them my whole life. The enthusiasm can rub off onto me. Often it makes me wonder in my pessimistic Capricornian way- Why are they so full of ideas and that idealistic about life. Often sagittarius can gesticulate with the body when they are really enthusiastic in conversation. They wave their arms or point a finger to stress a point. Guess that is why they are the sign of the school teacher. Who could help but listen with all the words and actions to accompany it. Sorry about the lack of question marks. My phone has decided that there is not anything like that today.
  12. heyowana

    Eating A. muscaria?

    Thanks for the great answer mutant. I remember running up a street talking to a friend as if it was nothing. We got to the top of the hill and laughed. I felt that light like I could fly. The house I had been in was 2km away. All I remembered was waking up on the living room floor with a vision of a glowing A.muscaria in front of my eyes. The colours were coming up from the base of it like tadpoles then when they hit the cap they would radiate out with a glowing scarlet light. There were blue colours mixed in with red. It looked beautiful. I sat up and the other guy sat up at the same time and looked at me. I remember floating out the door talking about Katoomba to him and then we were there in town laughing because we were just in the house a moment before. Didn't matter then because I don't think anything would have mattered. So yes I guess accidents and even violence could happen in such a state of being so unconscious. Except for the nausea and the duration of the trip I think they were okay. Prefer psilocybes only because I'm too much of a control freak. I know whats going to happen to my body on psilocybin mushrooms. A.muscaria it's a guess. Who knows?
  13. That was my initial reason to ID as P.alutacea. Inski's photos of it are wonderful. Changed my mind for two reasons. First P.alutecea has a bluing reaction of dung growing species which it is. These mushrooms have the bluing the same as the tropical liberty cap mushrooms I have picked. They don't blue straight away. Takes about 4 hours. Then it is a steel blue colour. Most importantly they fruit syraight out of the mud. The woolly tuft of mycellium makes them hard to pull out. I thought P.aztecorum because the cap goes white. Now I'm changing my guess to - too hard.Just want to find them in a more natural habitat.
  14. Thanks Zen Peddler. I offered Inski anything I could. He didn't seem interested. We had a discussion on shroomery about his proposed guess for an ID. I don't think he liked my attitude. Maybe he is too busy more likely. I've read some of your posts about P.subaeruginosa and you sound well informed.
  15. Thanks pimento. I sent all the dried samples down to Melbourne. Once they are in the herbarium they are there forever. I'll let you know what happens with the DNA sequencing. The one that came up yesterday looks a bit bent today. I think the lyrebirds or bush turkeys have been scratching around it. Larger fungi near or in a clearing don't last long. They never seem to eat them. Just peck them and knock them over. Any rivers or creeks down your way? Because they might be fruiting there. I'm betting that like the other psilocybe species here they are widespread. Just have to work out their habitat.
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