surprise find

[Moses]

some time ago my fiance was purchasing sand for my cacti from a landscape supply and noticed 2 large lumps of mycelium which she scooped up into a bag and brought home and i promptly forgot about them till a few days ago when we found dried shrooms in a tub of ipomea

as we have horses all of my soil is heavy with horse manure and all the tubs have pine chip/bark mulch

i took a spore print(it was black) 3 days ago when a solitary one popped up and immediately put up some light shade and kept up the water to hopefully get more and bingo today there they were.

any guess??

the next 2 pic were taken about 5 min apart of the same shroom

no bluing,very strong shroom smell

anyone interested in pieces for closer scutiny?

b.m?

[naja naja]

Damn, that looks macroscopically like Panaeolus subbalteatus.

I'm sure BM will want u to save him a dried sample including gills.

Print a few of those suckers just incase it is.

Edited November 23, 2006 by naja naja

[Moses]

Got caps on foil as we speak

Panaeolus subbalteatus was my guess too but i didnt want to sway the audience.

on closer inspection of the tub there are almost a dozen other clusters of dried/aborted pins that must have got scorched in our freak heat this week so i think i should be able to get a few flushes out of the pot with careful management(in the interest of science,of course)

the strange thing is that we had been trying to induce this species naturally last year in our vege patch and i expected something from there, i was only admiring the flush of colour on the ipomea and noticed the shrooms tucked under the growth and remembered the chunks of unknown myc we buried

[PD.]

Panaeolus subbalteatus was my guess too but i didnt want to sway the audience.

consider me swayed

[naja naja]

Ditto, If ya need a 60kg lab rat to test em out, let me know.

[spiders]

Yeah Id be pretty happy with saying these are pan subbs - good find. Only other possibility is a psathyrella - ill have a look at your specimens tonight and confirm it.

Something similar happened to me once with Ps.cyanescnes - didnt grow at all at the first patch i made, then turned up over under my herbs for some reason - i have no idea how. No fruits came up to spread spores - just happened. Weird.

http://uforq.asn.au/articles/encounter.html

[spiders]

spent a few hours looking at shit loads of sections but couldnt find one cystidia - a couple of basidia but they were at a poor angle. Pretty annoying. I have no idea why it was so hard.

Spore size looked pretty much right, a little smaller tahn i would have expected but thats about it.

Ill compare it to another print and that should be pretty indicative.

[Mycot]

I'd say P. subbalteatus for sure.

4 grams dried constitutes a nice dose. Taste is such that its much easier to take than most shrooms.(very mild)

A great shroom.

[ENtiTY]

Yep that one's a subb.

Any chance of prints being avalible? Very much like to add this one to my collection!

Got some dried caps with spores intact but I like my chances better from a print

Will PM