Ypsilophora
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Hi,
been getting into the whole fungus cultivation thingo - and am looking to expand my edible mushroom options (I have some enoki's I cloned from a storebought pack
).shoot me a message if you have prints or similar you'd be happy to share.
I have plenty of P. sub prints (for microscopy purposes), lots of acacia and other natives seeds, and a few cacti seedlings.
Thanks heaps
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If one added them after brewing the vine, so no cooking of psilocin, then it should work
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I'll grab one or two!
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Would also love to enter! very kind of you!
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3 hours ago, Horizon said:Freakosystem, I just reread your post and the gills on the ones that didn't bruise blue have gills that seem to more yellows than white.
I'm no expert, but those ones on the right are (to me) not Psilocybe's... rust cloured spore deposit and orange-ish stipe... the left hand group (with the exception of that single stipe maybe?) look a lot more like a psilocybe species, not going to say definitely; just because I am as previously stated, not an expert.....
Generally, sub stipes seem to be a cool white (blueish white), whereas the right-hand group look to have a warmer white.
Yp
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On 02/05/2020 at 9:52 PM, Cimi said:That's awesome you don't have to leave your place to find them with lockdown going on. How old are the trees?
I visited some local pine plantations (before the big rain), but nothing at all. Wondering if the trees were too young or something. Hopefully they will be popping everywhere after this crazy rain. I have noticed other fungi popping up around home recently, too.
I'm not actually sure how old the pines are... maybe 50 years or so?
I have actually never found them here before, they popped up on the SW side of the pine strip along a furrowed firebreak dug in over summer... It could be that the ploughing stressed the mycelium into fruiting, because I've found a bunch of different things that I've never seen around along the ploughed strip including some funky Pseudocolous species.
In some ways, it's nice because we also cleared all the leaf litter collected at the bottom of the pines over summer (just way too close to our house to take any risks), which I'm worried has severely impacted the sub colony there, so finding exciting different things kinda makes up for it...
Sadly we seem to have missed the rains... only about 5-10 ml over the last month, the saffies that popped up we after some heavy dews plus light showers... hoping the rains get to here eventually!
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I'm not particularly sure... but just got my first few under our pine windbreak these last few days following some heavy dews and 0 degree nights.... only three, but more coming along!
Hoping to get out soon and get enough for a proper meal... sunday maybe
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5 hours ago, Freakosystem said:Fire frequencies could be responsible for the lack of it in spots that were recently burnt. Could be something else also. Always difficult to say.
Acacia spp. Do regularly germinate by roads without fire. The physical abrasion of seed, the high amounts of light due to the cleared trees and the regular pooling and drying of water roadside contribute to faster seed coat decay allowing for germination. I'd still suggest an abundance of similarly aged Acacia spp. is likely the result of fire though. Perhaps they're particularly slow growing at that locality.
Did you end up getting any Acacia obtusifolia seed? Are you still looking?
Thanks for the info!
I guess fire would probably be it... just very slow-growing in that particular area.
Haven't been able to get any A. obtusifolia seed yet, definitely still looking!
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Hmmm, that's interesting, haven't had a fire through those particular areas in the twelve years I've been here, and the areas that had seen fire seem completely devoid of them (possibly the fire frequency was too great, and so the younger recruits burnt before they could set seed?... dunno).
Actually, just remembered I have found one that was seeding, right next to the road, couple of years ago now... I was very excited until I drove past one morning and found it had been mulched along with everything else on the side of the road... I was devastated, to say the least!
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Thanks so much Humboldt... I'll send some things back down... anything you might be interested in particular? (not that I have a particularly large collection... but there might be something
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Hey Niggles,
It's a great plant... for some reason that doesn't surpise me all that much, definitly has some kind of healing feeling!
Would love some purple salvia! Thanks so much for the offer
Sadly I can't help you out on the salvia salvia front... but if I ever manage to get my hands on it I'll shoot some your way!
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Hey, hoping to get my cacti collection going properly.
Not really looking for anything in particular, just whatever people have!
I've got a bunch of native seeds and stuff for trade, or cash... either or
Thanks,
Yp
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I've got a pretty large salvia of some sort... you may have it all ready, but if you're interested let me know!
Fantastic bushy growth, and red/white flowers... the bees love it! Flowers taste good too
Yp
- just did I quick google search... could be Salvia microphylla?
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Hey Flux,
ended up putting an order online for a bunch of different seeds... I now have more acacia seeds than I'll ever know what to do with!
It'll be interesting to see how the acuminatas go, we get hit pretty hard by the frosts here, maybe if I get them through their first few winters they might be okay.
Yeah, would love to get some obtusi's going, plenty around in the bush... but never found one large enough for seed... just hundreds of little sucker type things, it's pretty odd, dunno if it's normal or not though (the lack of mature age individuals).
Thanks so much for the offer though!
Yp
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Hiya Infinity,
Would love to take you up on that fantastically generous offer!
I shall offer up an extensive native seed pack:
Acacia mearnsii
Acacia melanoxylon
Allocasuarina littoralis - black sheoak
Bulbine bulbosa – bulbine lily
Capillipedium parviflorum – Scented-top grass
Cassinia aculeata – Common cassinia
Cassinia longifolia – Shiny cassinia
Clematis aristate – Old Man’s Beard
Cullen tenax – Emu-foot
Dicanthium sericeum – Silky bluegrass
Dodonaea triquetra – Hop bush
Dodonaea viscosa – Sticky Hop Bush
Elymus scaber – Native wheatgrass
Some mixed Eucs
Glycine tabacina – Variable glycine
Indigofera australis – Austral indigo
Leptorhynchos elongatus – Lanky buttons
Leptorhynchos squamatus – Scaly buttons
Leucochrysum albicans – hoary sunray
Plantago varia – Native plantain
Podolepis jaceiodes – Copper Wire Daisy
Ranunculus lapaceus – Australian buttercup
Sorghum leiocladum – Native sorghum
Stackhousia monogyna – Creamy candles
Vittadinia muellerii – New Holland Daisy
Some other things:
Little bag of P. harmala
German chamomile
Common sage
Thai basal
+ anything else that I can find
Seed bags will be marked with the initials of the species, ie. CP = Capillipedium parviflorum
Note: some of the seed offered isn't from the most recent season; the age of the seed ranges from 2015 - present... although it has been stored in a cool dry room, and will most likely still be viable (if you want I can give them a quick test before sending them off to whoever wants them).
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On 05/03/2020 at 2:38 PM, Crop said:I wouldn't mind playing with one of these flow hives. Briliant engineering based on a commercial egg cracking machine. Definatly good for the bees in some ways. However I think there is something in the plastic thing.
Here I gave my bees a choice. I placed a bit of plastic foundation in the middle, with a paddle pop stick on each side. As you can see given the choice bee's would rather go to all the effort of building their comb from scratch than use plastic.
That's interesting, hadn't really considered this... but it kinda makes sense, don't really blame really!
As a side note, lovely top bar hive
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Hmmm... I have also considered this... so I don't have a setup, cause I haven't done it!
By memory, I was scared off by the price of a culture... this was a few years ago though, so pricing may have changed.
If you end up having a go, keep us updated! Would love to see how it goes!
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11 minutes ago, Evil Genius said:Hey mate, welcome aboard.
Thanks Evil
Glad to be here!
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A few pictures of our place
second pic is a lovely little grove of 10(ish) year old floribunda + longifolia, third is a driveway planting of the same.
And a little guest from the other week, very excited to see these guys in our front yard!
Thanks all,
Yp
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Since having my account validated I've been meaning to write up a little introduction, but for whatever reason, it just didn't happen.
But here we go; slightly later than intended... but better than never!
After spending the past year or two reading this forum without ever signing up I finally decided it was well and truly time to do so - so here we are!
With both my parents being ecologists, one thing has remained fairly constant throughout my life; a deep interest in plants and fungi, more specifically native species (but definitely not limited to such!) Since a very young age I have been fascinated by medicinal plants... and I probably spent more time than I should have throughout my highschool years scanning my mum's old uni textbooks on medicinal and edible native flora... my schooling definitely suffered, but I believe I have developed a more healthy range of knowledge because of it
My current place of residence lies on the SE coast of NSW, and we've spent the last 12ish years transforming it from an overgrazed collection of paddocks into a lovely little refuge for native wildlife. I shall upload some pictures in the next post, I just need to downsize them enough so that I don't get that pesky error message.
I also wanted to say a quick thanks to this community for the warm welcome I have already received, especially to Humboldt and Pedro, who started off my collection very generously.
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3 hours ago, Cimi said:True. When the rains come that will be the time.
The first few weeks of autumn always feel the longest!
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no luck further south... too damned dry for anything!
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On 24/03/2020 at 11:56 AM, Xperiment said:Congrats Dozer.
And thanks Enjaytee for running the giveaway. Legend!
^this, very very generous of you
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Okie... so, whilst exploring some bush on a mates place, around 20km inland on the far south coast NSW, I came across two very odd-looking acacia... seemed to be a few of them; maybe found 5-10 individual plants for the first and quite common for the second.
What sparked my interest in number 1, was the sheer SIZE of the phyllodes: 210 x 60 mm and very leathery. They have the typical A. Obtusifolia resin margin and are thick in a similar way, but just seem almost too large? With ID of A. Obtus saying only up to 23mm wide...
The second, similarily have INCREDIBLY long phyllodes... measuring over 300mm for some, but only 20mm wide...
Anyway, would love it if someone slightly better at plant ID could offer some suggestions?
Cheers,
Yp
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just realised I should probably add a little more info; inflorescences were cylindrical (although not flowering at this point, seems I missed it by a month or two, as still often dried remnants of the flower stalk).
Didn’t have my camera with me, so no photos of the tree itself, but in the case of the first species the growth pattern was very similar to A. Obtusifolia down here - quite sparce, with relatively few phyllodes per branch. In the case of the second, much fuller, taller and generally more vigorous growth.
C. sativa pollen
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Hi,
I'm chasing a bit of fresh C. sativa pollen if anyone has some spare - I've got some plants I would like to pollenate
Can swap for acacia and other seeds, P. sub spore prints as well.
Thanks