wanted to buy/trade edible fungi spore print/culture pack

[wanted to buy/trade edible fungi spore print/culture pack]

Dude I normally sell some but I had a recent mite infestation and all I have is white oysters and Lepista sordida at the moment. 

[Armillaria luteobubalina - an ok edible]

Hi I think it was an oak stump

[Armillaria luteobubalina - an ok edible]

Hi - with the weird weather patterns it appears we've had lots of Agaricus, boletes early and now lots of these guys:

 

Boiled for ten minutes, sliced and then cooked quickly on a super-hot pan:

 

 

[Cordyceps gunnii]

My neighbour yanked a few of these out of the ground - complete with mummified caterpillar! Coolness...

[Sublilacina porn]

We got the DNA back on these guys - turns out they are Lepista sordida which obviously also grows native in Australia. And confirmed edible. 

[have you eaten the yellow staining mushroom (agaricus xanthoderma)]

Xanthoderma and other phenol-containing Agaricus stain yellow that fades as its oxidised within half an hour. Yellow staining in other Agaricus (usually almond-smelling species) does not fade. 

[Stimulant ideas/discussion]

Having considered this in more detail i think daffy does little for me because i use stimulants to increase my blood pressure (which it doesnt seem to).

therefore for me it was pretty useless.

[Outrunning Trichoderma when isolating from the wild?]

what works for me is h202 and sub culturing on agar plates. Every other technique is hit and miss,

[Birch Boletes and other boletes]

Last but not least a shaggy parasol:

 

 

[Birch Boletes and other boletes]

Macrolepiota clelandii

Phlebopus marginatus

And a nasty one - Amanita phalloides:

[Birch Boletes and other boletes]

We had a burst of rain and then its been super dry - so only really boletes and a few Macrolepiota clelandii up and about:

Suillus granulatus

Agaricus augustus:

 

[Sublilacina porn]

Hi thanks darklight. Like sweat or floral.

[Sublilacina porn]

Although i think i prefer nuda flavour wise

[Sublilacina porn]

Yeah thanks dude i was excited

[Sublilacina porn]

Flavour can only described as bizarre even by Lepista / blewit standards.

[Sublilacina porn]

Looks like I worked out the fruiting strain:

At the risk of sounding like a capitalist (believe me Im not) we will be selling cultures of this strain shortly so I can pay some bills ;)

[Mimzy has learned the hard way.]

Mites hatched out of a wild clone once and contaminated my entire collection in two days

littke buggars are bad news

[Lepista sublilacina purple mycelium]

Not really. I was going to try indoors with compost and manure and I think this might work better. Ive noticed that it didnt fruit off the rye grass seed but rather from surrounding hardwood chips so that might be worth a shot as well

[DNA results for wild picked oyster/Pleurotus species]

If you want to get cheap DNA sequences pop me a pm btw.

[o's mushroom hunting adventures - 2016 - and maybe other things fungi related.....]

Careful of those shaggies - according to DNA our shaggy parasols may be a little different to those found elsewhere. Some eat them fine, but some projectile vomit

[o's mushroom hunting adventures - 2016 - and maybe other things fungi related.....]

Apparently the season has started everywhere but victoria

[Lepista sublilacina purple mycelium]

I managed to fruit this critter although at the most ridiculous time of the year so dry conditions aborted the first flush. Hoping some rain will change the size haha:

[does any one have any spawn/cultures of mushrooms]

Gday mate - I have plates of a tested strain of King Stropharia and im working on my spawn, a commercial white oyster strain and a feral blue oyster that is very impressive and colonises very quickly, Lepista sublilacina, Calocybe indica, Turkey Tail if you are interested.

In terms of what I grow at home its mainly piopinno to be honest because it tastes so damn awesome although kind strophs are growing on me.

[DNA results for wild picked oyster/Pleurotus species]

Hi mate thanks for the response. Yes there are a few feral oysters around. A white and pink species up around Brisbane and Northern NSW seems pretty close to djamor and there was a brown one I found in the Yarra ranges that I guessed was australis.

The local ones around here always seem blue.

Results were the DNA sequence was 99% similar to American ostreatus and about 96% close to a similar oyster species - it was quite different from australis and Alan Rockefeller stated flat out that it was ostreatus.

[DNA results for wild picked oyster/Pleurotus species]

Hi

thought this may be of interest. A bright blue species of Pleurotus that I found in the Dandenong Ranges turned out to be a feral Pleurotus ostreatus. Pretty cool to think that oysters are quite literally out there, wild and edible: