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yes please

1- probably Clitocybe nuda 2- .. 3- maybe Armillaria or Gymnopilus? looks too robust for Galerina to me.. 4- Lactarius deliciosus for future I.D's the sporeprint colours would help a lot

dunno, i usually see some lilac colouration in the gills and stem even if the cap has none. Which I can't make out in those pics. Fluffy purple mycelium at base of stem?

what are the major differences? macro- and microscopically?

Since I will have a week or so of spare time next week, I'm planning on taking some microscopic pics focussing on the cheilocystidia of a few bluing Gym's and their close allies, collected from around Melbourne, WA and NSW. If anybody I haven't contacted has any interesting specimens at hand they would like to send me, give me a PM and i'll let you know where to send them. Hoping we can get a nice overview of the different species we have around and pair them up with their microscopic features we should get a better idea of what we've been finding. Also it would also be very feasable to include a basic TLC analysis of each collection to further the study. So anyone I have already contacted, a dried whole specimen would probably be best, i should be able to get that part of it done either next week or when im back home again in a couple of months. basically i'm aiming for this kinda thing using some weird subs as an example

Mycot I'll rustle up my notes and get back to you on your questions from a year ago.. Bush Turkey I've ordered some new microscope coverslips so will be keen to look at anything people wanna send my way!

current price, 50 bucks a day for epic party ?

haha still seeing G. allantopus everywhere mate.. allantopus should at least vaguely fit this description (of the cap)

I remember rev talking about a native bluing inocybe years ago, just now I came across these couple of references here hereand here which sound like they could be interesting.. Inocybe (unnamed sp GM Gates) blue-green base to stipe Pluteus (unnamed sp GM Gates) grey or brown with blueing stipe sooo any tassie members down near the Warra?

bit of a late reply mate.. but sounds dubious, even when the caps fade to a grey almost brown the gills are usually quite purple from memory. find a fair dinkum one and have a good whiff, the smell is pretty distinctive

I'm sure there are more than those 425 herbarium collections in the state, tthought it may be a good headsup on some readily available data for peeps who may not not where to start looking.. not like I'm sayin you tassies don't know how to find a myrtle beech or nufffen!

Timely bump Mycot, tis the season. from what I have gathered Pluteus appear to have a certain affinity to Fagus overseas so I would be inclined to look for fallen Nothofagus wood.. this link may help finding appropriate hunting grounds? http://biocache.ala....ania%22#mapView

ive seen a couple of similar looking branch bases, but never with hairs. background of 3rd pic in post#31, and second last pic http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=23088&view=findpost&p=294183

thought id come on and share this pic of my freaky bridgesii graft. I have another piece of this i'd be keen to swap for a similarly freaky specimen (*ahem*niggles..) and while im at it heres most of my other grafts. most are about 4 years old, though i cut them back to the stumps almost every year.. Labels were lost for this entire batch of seedlings, could be any of these: "Los Gentiles", "Los Banos" x T. pallarensis, T. bridgesii x (Juuls X peruv), IcarosDNA, SS01 x SS02, and probably a couple of straight-up bridgies in there too. ah yeah those last two are ex-grafts, the grafted stumps only just re-puppin.. Trichocereus scopulicola x bridgesii 2 T. glaucus seedling grafts, and what I have labelled as T. knuthianus open hybrid. (although I do wonder if i mixed it up with some pasacana seedlings i started at the same time) and finally,.. this bad boy definately wears the pants in my backyard. this is the second incarnation of this graft, original one was hit with a weird dry rot and managed to salvage the top 2cm or so. I've been meaning to hit it with some systemic fungicide on a regular basis, the variegated ones appears to be rather susceptible to infection. thanks for lookin

i know there's a few chilli-heads around these parts, so i thought it would be cool to start a chilli trading thread a'la the free ethnos thread. so i will kick off the proceedings with vvvvvvvv gets 10 Naga seeds + 10 Orange Hab seeds, both fresh vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

thought i would have a look at the paspalum in my front yard and found a few slerotia looking things and some honeydew. heres the honeydew stage- loaded with conidia 11.3-15.4 x 4.4-5.1 looks pretty good when compared to this pic i found on the net.

was it your plant? any pics ?

EG, heres the glaucus and freaky bridgesii today and finally succeeded in regrafting the tip of the variegate .. niggles you know im not the sandwich making type of guy!

hey bluey you've heard of this one? Flavonoid gives rats booze-guzzling and anti-addiction superpowers

interestingly, right next to the Phalaris was a heap of honeydew covered Paspalum accidently threw the sample I collected out, I had assumed it would be C. paspali again until I found this today H Kobel, K Stopp (1967). First discovery of a wild form of Claviceps purpurea on Paspalum. Naturwissenschaften 04/1967; 54(6):145-6.

yes I suppose the eye gets keen after a while of examining most grass heads I walk past.. I actually spotted this one out the window of a car! tripsis the 'purpurea' I have not properly examined, I'm hoping there are some conidia stuck on the outside of the sclerotia. But I have looked up all other species recorded in Australia and nothing else matches sclerotia-wise. (edit- ok i had a look and the sclerotia is covered in conidia, ellipsoid-oblong , 7.5-9.1 x 3.8-4.3, looks spot on for purpurea on phalaris arundinacea) The ID for paspali was based on conidia size and sclerotia morphology. I tried to find some germinating sclerotia to examine ascospores but no dice.. as for resources, this book is sweet and you can browse relevant pages with googlebooks Clavicipitalean fungi: evolutionary biology, chemistry, biocontrol, and cultural impacts and a heap of journal articles for paspali H. B. Brown (1916) Life History and Poisonous Properties of Claviceps paspali; Journal of Agricultural Research ,vol. 7(9), pgs 401-405. Alderman SC, Halse RR, White J F (2004) A reevaluation of the host range and geographical distribution of Claviceps species in the United States. Plant Disease 88: 63-81, A.R. Loveless (1964). Use of the honeydew state in the identification of ergot species. Claviceps phalaridis in Australia: biology, pathology and taxonomy with a description of the new genus Cepsiclava (Hypocreales,Clavicipitaceae) for purpurea some of the above and also http://www.erowid.or...ntification.pdf

branched structure is the tip of a cleistothecial appendage, spore/s are contained within the black cleistothecium on the left Erysiphe/Microsphaera? i.e. a powdery mildew

wow very nice carvings. I especially like the leaf and infinity one. and I do like a good trip simulator too!

couple from the vic alpine region, I'm thinking first one maybe a female Mountain Katydid Acripeza reticulata

Obviously it aint paspali, but an interesting find up in the Vic high country last week. what looks like C. purpurea on Phalaris.