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  1. After receiving 150mm from an East coast low pressure system, I noticed small white capped mushrooms. These were growing on my property at 870 meters elevation. The rain event had finished on 6th April. About a week later I started seeing the mushrooms. Thinking that they were of the Mycena genus I didn't pay much attention to them. The temperature had started to dtop indicsted by finding the first P.subaeruginosa on April 7th. On Friday 7th April at 4pm I walked past the white capped mushtooms.I had a closer look and in amongst them were brown coloured psilocybe mushrooms. The white capped ones were older specimens of the same species. Habitat was a clearing on level ground in eucalypt forest. There is a track running down the hill to this clearing. A bulldozer had widened it 2 years ago scooping a shallow drain for runoff. Prior to the rain event wallabies had been cropping the native grasses growing in the drain extensively. During the rain leaves from New England Blackbutt trees had been washed into piles. They were in a pattern as the water level had receded into the drain. Each mushroom was fruiting through the mud. Their stipes had a white woolly tuft at the base. Each base was covered with a eucalypt leaf. I found a bunch of ten later with no leaves covering the base of their stipe. See photo. The fresh caps were a dark brown colour matching the colour of the wet leaves. Turning red brown then fawn until whitening in drier specimens. Caps ranged in size from half a centimeter to one and a half centimeters across on average. The largest were closer to 2cm. The stipe averaged 3 - 4 cm in length. Sinewy and curving. Colour matched cap colour. Longest stipe was 6cm in length. Gills were greyish lavender with white cystidia? along gill edges. These mushrooms continued ti flush on and off over the next 2 months in the wet drainage area. Photos to follow.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. I'm not sure how to edit my text via my mobile. Until I do my apologies for leaving words out etc.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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?
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. I had a message from A.Rockefeller. He is going to Mexico for several months. He suggested that I get them DNA sequenced elsewhere but I still need him to interpret the results. Looks like there isn't much point being excited. Psilocybe mysterious is going to remain that way for a while yet.
  18. Thanks myco. Yes I have a thread with them in it over there. They don't know. Alan Rockefeller has some for DNA sequencing. TimT is studying them now. He will then lodge them with Melbourne herbarium.
  19. Thanks for that. I think Sagittarians are fun to be around. They are honest even if it hurts a bit sometimes. Friendly open and warm hearted. They generally like animals as well. Saggittarian woman I was with for 8 years hit me one day when I had riled her enough. It shocked me that she could hit me in the head that fast and hard. The kids asked me why I had blood running down my face. I told them mum hit me. They laughed. Maybe the Piscean woman thing is 5th house Pisces. Love affairs. There are no aspects or planets in my 5th though. Saggitarius being the life of the party pulls me out of my shell a bit. All the Sagittarians I have known are morning people. They wake up easily and go to bed fairly early. What would you say mutant and incognito?
  20. Thanks for that. I think Sagittarians are fun to be around. They are honest even if it hurts a bit sometimes. Friendly open and warm hearted. They generally like animals as well. Saggittarian woman I was with for 8 years hit me one day when I had riled her enough. It shocked me that she could hit me in the head that fast and hard. The kids asked me why I had blood running down my face. I told them mum hit me. They laughed. Maybe the Piscean woman thing is 5th house Pisces. Love affairs. There are no aspects or planets in my 5th though. Saggitarius being the life of the party pulls me out of my shell a bit.
  21. Having made the above observation I make a hypothesis. A river around here floods its banks. An arm of that river that doesn't normally have water because its just there for flooding gets cut off. The water slowly recedes.leaving lots of mud and debris. Depending on the slope there would quite possibly be arms of rivers that match my drain where they are growing. So I'll start checking rivers out. They would be hard to find there if it wasn't for the white caps when the weather is sunny.
  22. heyowana

    Eating A. muscaria?

    Hard to walk past. I read something posted on a thread of mine about A.muscaria that went something like you need a cast iron stomach and there's no way of telling what the reaction will be. It could be violent as well. The violence bit mystifies me. I found them opiate like relaxing dreamy etc. The only violence I could see was the way I projectile vomited. The stuff about berserkers was supposed to not be A.muscaria so I read. No one I know who has taken them ever felt violent. A guy that took them in South Australia said the ones he and others tried there made them want to dance. He said the Oberon ones didn't make him feel like that. I know there are regional differences in effect. Any tales from your part of the world that support the violent reaction.
  23. I'll try not to sound like I know any more than anyone because I don't. If you guys had access to them I'm sure you would have found out more than me. P.bohemica has the bluing reaction of a wood grower. P.alutacea grows on dung. It also has a different bluing reaction to these. Yes one popped up today. I've made an observation about their habitat. The Blackbutt leaves have nothing to do with these mushrooms I would think in their natural habitat. This is a transition zone opportunistically colonisef by these mushrooms. I have noticed the ones with more leaves around them are always smaller and more fragile. The ones coming out of the mud with no leaves are the biggest most robust looking. Looking.at the mycellium here is my guess why. The ones with the leaf covering have that woolly tuft exposed to the air. The ones in the mud have it buried under the mud. I think it is easier for them to transmit nutrients if they are constantly wet. The water in the drain has gone over them countless times in the last two months. They sure love water.
  24. heyowana

    Eating A. muscaria?

    There is a tree of life painting that looks like a bunch of A.muscarias coming from the one stem. In the book that showed it the authors say it's just a stylised tree. I have seen it in those 'soma' kaleidascopes too many times for it to be coincidence. I am a bit of a fan of symbology in mysticism. It is like having an alchemical formula. The symbols actually are a means to obtain a result. I was told not to be hooked up on them but I have seen tangible results. Soma may have a few different fungi guises. I could suggest some candidates. Trouble is they don't have a name yet. It is funny how thr Rig veda is supposed to mention the name soma that many times. A phrase like .....pissed the sweet soma... sure does suggest A.muscaria to me.
  25. Thanks for all the links ThunderIdeal.
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