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im looking for fagacea natul tortuosa .... it's European Beech Fagus sylvatica 'Tortuosa' twisted / dwarf / common Beech. found from the film "The fountain" that presented this tree as Fagacea natul tortuosa. I am having difficulty locating the seeds or th plant to purchase online. so, i was hoping I might find some help amongst the great minds of SAB ^_^ thank you all so very much. may be listed as Fagus tortuosa

found this in the same bamboo pile as a few other species after a whole bunch of rain just now. can anyone help with an ID please? hoping it's not a Psathyrella, there's no 'blueing'. also if edible is it a magic one please? growing downstream from a whole bunch of very happy blue meanies. thanks heaps. edited to add 3 more photos. thanks again.

can anyone id this please? much appreciated. the base of the stem is pretty red. white stem, grey / black gills, red cap. these are growing at the base of a moreton bay fig, in the leaf mulch. they come out of the ground, not from woodmulch, they're in soil. dark brown spore print / chocolate. thanks again

Tangich, you're an asset, this place sure is glad to have you around. & thankyou! you guys are freaking awesome. cheers.

one of these slowly drying caps, the white spots are turning green. ...looks like the kind of mold that grows on an orange peel. the intent here is to thoroughly dry them all, but the greening white spots could be a concern. wanted to sun-dry, but might have to oven dry. hence the inquiry ... what is best. oven dried or sundried... curing vs force drying. should the entire mushroom be dried or just the red tops? thankyou all very much the large cap in the white bowl is the now drying cap with the *greening white spots*, and the text book santa one is the 3rd image one day later. Slainte ^_^

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stumbled over these on my way into the forest. looks like a psilocybe to me but that's why I'm here. the spore print seems to be rust brown :/ so, is this a galerina or some kinda look alike, or is it a non bluing magic one in disguise? i read they dont blue if they have psilocybin but not psilocin. any help here would be freaking awesome. ps: sorry about the low camera resolution. thanks heaps again :D

the crash course sure is fun ... and whatever this mushroom is ... it was delicious. definately active at 1 cap.

like hawk says, they have some of the best qualities of acid ... lol. we found that out after the vomiting (which wasn't nice at all) I thought they were decarboxylated enough ... aparently not. dried caps with gills to a powder, then made a tea. I would approach this again, but the nausea was a doozy. nowhere near as bad as HWBR tho. after the nausea, it was like a light lsd trip - pretty nice, happy + giggly. thanks again Thunder Horse ⍾ Ninja it's nice to have a positive report to contribute back! ps: does anyone have the hawk and venus soma shaman dvd? i cant find it ANYWHERE thanks!!!

∂an, thankyou for that podcast, he's a local guy near me too, will seek him out and pick his brain ;) Tangich, next time I see one of these I will take a spore print. thanks heaps again, very much appreciated.

this amanita (formosa?) was found growing from a chainsawed australian rainforest native (so sorry i do not knnow the name of it) in the Byron Bay / Ballina region of Northern Rivers NSW. point is ... cane toads were living under this chunk of colonized log. do they have a symbiotic effect on ... well ... this I ask this as I have found pans growing from the bamboo burrows where the toads situate themselves. maybe I'm overthinking it LOL.

Tangich, does this look like the same thing to your eyes? thanks!

this doesn't blue but it does have a *purplish black* spore print. definitely not rust brown. thank you!!

∂an, just added 3 more to the original post. thankyou ps: purple black spore print.

thanks all. deeply appreciated!

bah! was really hoping it may have been a butterfly panaeolus thanks Tangich, you're awesome!

simplest explanations tend to be the right ones huh. very much appreciated, thanks again

thanks very much Glaukus, they have more air around them now. I was primarily concerned about the white spots turning green as it dries. cheers ;)

the toads just seem to make a place to sit in the wet mulch/chip/leaf mold. I find tunnels dug into the top of the pile, inside which is always a cane toad looking back at me. is the bufo toad with it's 5meodmt glands causing the mushrooms?? I also found cane toads under a fallen tree trunk out of which where were brown fly argic looking mushrooms. just trying to join the dots. Cheers! ;)

these mushrooms were found in northern nsw on leaf mold on top of piles of bamboo chip/mulch. didn't know what these are, but am taking spore prints. can anyone tell me what these are please? im brand new, but does this blue mean magic or poison ... or both ;) thanks heaps in advance. ;) Cheers!

cane toads living in self-made cavesholes in the top of piles of bamboo chip mulch. this is predominantly where hands of fruiting Panaeolus are found. .... in and above where the cane toads like to reside.... up they come. just thought that might be useful. thanks again ^_^

thank you all very much. upon googling "Cortinarius sp" that is what it looks like to me too. thankyou for looking out for the rest of us as we learn.

have found a few of these ... is it the magic on or a lookalike. thanks heaps. i'd far sooner ask for an ID now than ask for a liver or a kidney sometime later many thanks

these have grey/black gills ... not sure on the spore print, sorry ... they're all about the size or smaller than an aussie 5c coin. growing from a tree stump underground and this flush happens every time it rains. thanks heaps in advance. thanks !!

sincerely appreciated, thankyou very much!