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Orange spored Subaeruginosa

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Looks like a sub. Doesnt taste like one, theoretically. Growing mostly from poo and under Euc trees.

Very slow to blue.

Persistent veil remnant.

Spores the same colour as gyms.

WTF!!??

Photo is on the way..

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Pice of your examples would be great.

I have noticed Psilocybe subaeruginosa to sometimes show a print that is quite brown. However the subs I find are never growing from poo, sometimes close, but never from it. I have had brown spored ones that grow from both eucalyptus and pine substrate.

Check out the thread I've linked to below. I even put up some pretty good example pics of this phenomenon just today! Coincidence or some kind of mushroom overlord conspiracy? You decide.

http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/21582830

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The stems had that kinds spotty feel to them too. Can't remember what that's called.

I'm pretty excited they're a new.. unidentified mushroom.

Seriously halfway between a pan and a sub. And the gills came out further than the bottom of the cap.

It sounds like something quite dodgy. Were it not for the blue..

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Doesnt taste like one.

Mud, as one of the (in my opinion) great and fearless bio-assayers of this community....what??

*edit- as in

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interested to see some pics of this

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pics, pics, pics..........please

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Sounds like Cortinarius sp.

brown spores is the giveaway.

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What do you think of the ones I posted in the shroomery link above, Obtuse? Post http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/21785867#21785867

Also happy to send someone with a microscope a print of the brown spored and purple spored variety from the same location. If the results will be offered back of course. :)

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up untill this year I was not aware of the brown-purple and the black-purple phenotype differences.

really interesting.

Those caps are of Psilocybe subaeruginosa

the one being pointed to is questionable enough to throw away in my opinion. i don't see any bluing on that cap. do you have the stem?

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Years ago i found some subs near canberra that had a reddish cap, much more brpwn spore print and cystidia exactly lile guzman's ps eucalypta.

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If the spores were more black another possibility is Stropharia rugosoannulata which seems to love growing from poo in Australia.

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It took a while to get back here to give all the bad news.
Because I was so angry at the fail.

One buddy who swore to keep the sample safe for me lost it.
And the photographer took such a blurry shot on his slr that it's not even worth posting.

Anecdotallly,
i've got about a dozen people who can confirm the sighting.
But as of yet, no hard proof.

I went back to the site to try and find another, but no luck.
It was a pretty incredible find. At an incredible time. I was definitely 'steered' to find this one..
just after I saw an ex girlfriend on a festival dancefloor..
and had to make a Kuick exitamine,
rather wavily past the enormous suspended Pteradactyl :)

Blah!
It was a bluer with orange spores.

could have been a small Gym, I suppose?
Wont know now until next year.

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I just picked up this thread , I think Obtuse may be on to it with Cortinarius , maybe " rotundisporus ". I found a lot of these around Middle Harbor in Sydney , and up at Mt Wilson , in the Blue Mountains , directly behind the CFA ....I found them in dryish Sheoak habitat growing out of the Sheoak " needles " covering the ground , sometimes close to , but not on wombat poo....always after some good rain....

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