WA Gyms, tis the season

[wahunter]

Regarding temps, they seem to be more prolific after a substantial amount of rain followed by cooler nights, 4-7 deg. First 2 finds were after two days of rain followed by cold nights and clear sky days. When hunting it seemed that they were much more likely to grow in open areas receiving plenty of sunlight rather than shaded damp swampland. @ Mud, when they were consumed fresh it was very similar to a strong dose of gold caps, unfortunately they are the only 2 types I have had any experience with. Might I add, I do not recommend eating them freshly blended (Possibly the worst thing I have ever tasted),they could make those with a weak stomach quite ill. Tonight will be trialing 10grams dried and blended gymp brewed in tea.

[mud]

Somehow mush cultivation comes across much harder than it oughta.

Anything woodlover is EASY.

'Bleach' some wood chips,

or stand in boiling water..

then blend up some old shroom and mix through.

You'll easily get a lil myc happening somewhere,

and even if it does contam before fully colonised,

just transfer the healthy stuff till it works.

Edited August 28, 2011 by mud

[Bush Turkey]

bump, bump, bumpidy bump, bump

The rains are here!!!

so whos gonna discover a new Gym this season?

[myco]

haha who will it be???

I wanna see some new discoveries here people

Get out there and find some shit

We need more active species found in W.A.

[Bush Turkey]

so many undiscovered's out here

[myco]

heres some pin porn for everyone to drool over

looks like i got the first find of the season ooo yeh hahaha:)

thier goin off theres hundreds of em

these look like they might be aborting

[Bert&Ernie]

What type of wood are they on myco

[myco]

Banksia

[sidewayschef]

nice, I have heaps of suitable banksia to Chip up.

Lost a picture I had of last years failed crop. Somehow the container and the mycelium survived the summer and will hopefully bear some fruit soon.

Only seen a few Gyms in Balingup......unfortunately no subs to be found in my trusty patch yet though

Still seems to be a tad dry in the hills(that was before the weekends downpour though)

[myco]

just thought i'd add a few pics of growth over the last few days

this first ones from yesterday the rest are from today

[Bush Turkey]

just went and checked the local spots, no fungi what so ever. still a couple of weeks away

[myco]

that sucks man

i think most of the rain we've had down here has missed you guys

and it looks like the next lot will to after checking the forecast

we've been getting down to the 10's and under almost everynight to

[Bert&Ernie]

I've seen many inactive mushys so I'm sure they will be out soon...

I will have to go for a wander around the swamp lands near my place

[Bush Turkey]

in the triangle has only had around 40mm of rain in the last month as apposed to your area myco which has had around 140mm rain in the last month, could be a crap season in the triangle this year

i expect the gym's to be poppin up very soon in perth

[myco]

Yeh it's been pretty nice an wet down here lately

there's lots of stuff startin to pop up found another big ompholotus nidiformis growin in the yard yesterday

went to take some pics last night and the camera battery died right as I tried to take a shot haha couldn't believe it

Charged it today and will post up some pics tonight

[mutant]

hey myco , awesome photos, would love to see the rest , nice photolog you started....

[Zen Peddler]

they look impressive.

[myco]

I'll keep taking pics as they grow should give a good look at the growth from pin to maturing provided nothing eats them

There's loads of little pins and only 2 decent ones have grown out of there the ones you can see in the pics

However when I checked em out today one of them had a few bites taken out of the cap

So hopefully they don't get munched first

[Bush Turkey]

I'll keep taking pics as they grow should give a good look at the growth from pin to maturing provided nothing eats them

 

good idea! i might do the same (if the duct tape holds on my camera )

will be good to see the stages of growth of yours, see if there is any variation from the city suburbs

are you goint to take pics daily Myco???

on another note i cant wait to go take some photo's of some Fly's

Edited May 4, 2012 by Bush Turkey

[Bert&Ernie]

Wish it would stop raining so i can go see if any are out in my area...

Any one know how long after the rain they take to fruit?

[myco]

so far i've been taking pics every second day

theyre pretty slow growing at this point so daily isnt really necessary

haha the fly's ay BT i wanna fucken find some would love to get photos of em

i was told you had been given the coordinates haha

i got given a rough idea but its pretty damn far away

once i heard the area i didnt really wanna know to much more its a bit of a mission

oh how i would love to get some good photo's though

[myco]

sorry guys that didnt really work out haha been a bit busy lately havent had a chance to take any pics

heres one from today

[chep]

Hi there! I'm new to the whole mushroom hunting game and I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing haha.

However this didn't stop a mate and I from going on our first hunt today near murdoch

At first we weren't finding much at all, just little fella's like these (sorry I only had my kinda dodgy phone camera)

But we kept searching and enjoying the wetlands and then started finding cooler mushrooms

I have no idea what kind of mushrooms these are so I'd love it if someone could enlighten me

However I've got a feeling this guy might be a G. Purpuratus, but I'm not entirely sure. Coud anyone help me out with an I.D?

Again sorry for the dodgy quality pics, hopefully I'll get some better ones on our next adventure

Cheers heaps

Edited May 11, 2012 by chep

[occidentalis]

Your pics don't seem to have worked.

I've been doing some more research on Gymnopilus ID; hopefully I will be able to scan and upload some of the papers I have been reading.

Bottom line: these mushrooms are HARD to identify. Basically impossible without a microscope; even then, very difficult as the features are extremely indistinct, and there are many similarities in the microstructures both between Gymnopilus species and across genera (including many similarities in the smaller Gym species with Galerina - if you don't know what that means, do more research before you eat anything). Although it is probably unlikely that the interesting Gyms will be confused with Galerinas, I think it's important to sound a note of caution and suggest people are very tentative with their IDs. These are not mushrooms that you can simply look up photos or drawings of and identify to species level based on the fact that you think it looks similar. There are also a number of undescribed species from the SW that only have phrase names at this point.

I plan to do a small research project on this group this winter, so hopefully I will be able to sort out a little bit of the taxonomy of the active species.

I went for a quick walk in my local spot last weekend and found some babies coming up, on Banksia and Eucalyptus logs.

[Bush Turkey]

Bottom line: these mushrooms are HARD to identify.

so does bluing play an important role in Id'n??? i mean if there is blueing, it would have to be a Gymnopilus right??? unless it had pores