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thanks for that last comment HM. i have been watching the postings of your project with interest since last season. i think i read that you had to move house from that outdoor setup you photodocumented so well for us. shame about that. i took your advice last season with the hessian, but methinks i got there too late: some sub myc i had on moist cardboard, in a plastic lunchbox, in a wardrobe, for some weeks, was going ok(being careful as practicable about not ever having the lid off too often). i did have to peel off layers of spot-moulded cardboard so as not to have it mingle with the god stuff. in the end, i left it to its own devices too long and lost the p.sub myc to dryness and mould. i'm holdin out that the spec of myc i managed to put in hessian might revive over winter. though i wont look till spring or something (in the meantime i'll try random cultivation of g.purps - see photos of recent walks that i'll post asap in the thread for that species). go the myc, go the hessian

greetings, took some more photos today of what i think may be Gyms, based on the literature that Mycot originally brought to our attention. see what you think:

mac, i don't have the pic in more pixels. i took it in low pixels because i haven't posted pics before and so didn't know what was the best size for uploading. most of those shrooms are melted now, but they are literally minutes from my house, so, once they fruit up again i'll take another pic. what pixels you after and still postable here?

apologies, photos of suspected "pins" above are not pins. i went and looked at them again today to see how much they had grown and they hadn't. i touched them and found that they moved. they were seeds of some sort. silly me. i had thought of them yesterday as little friends of mine that i could come back and visit. i'll leave the photo there because i think it looks good anyway.

thanks for the photos Idiot. i will add some photos of similar looking mushrooms, hoping they were the Gyms that Mycot first brought to our attention. thanks to Mycot for pointing out the useful literature prepared by PUBF (and no thanks to Ydarb for not reading properly, wanting to be spoon fed and having a goon bag as an avatar). before i show some photos, just want to comment on the write-up that Stamets (in Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World) gives of Gymnopilus purpuratus, and compare the photograph to those shown in the PUBF reports. Stamets describes the stem of this shroom as being "yellowish brown overall, with greenish and yellowish overtones"; the accompanying photo shows a stem that looks yellowish-red/brown to me, with a blue/gray tinge at the base. The G.purp. shown in the PUBF reports look to have stems of a lighter colour than that shown in the Stamets book, yet are labelled as purpuratus nonetheless. out fossicking today, i have taken photographs that look to be of the same species as those photographed by Idiot. i'm taking spore prints as we speak. more on this shroom from Stamets: "Cap: 1-5cm broad. Cap convex at first with an incurved margin, expanding with age to broadly convex to plane. reddish purplish brown to purplish red with tinges of yellow and green. surface covered with scattered fibrillose/floccose patches. Gills: Attachment sinuate, waxy yellow, becoming a brownish cinnamon yellow with spore maturity." This photo looks similar to one labelled as G. Purp. in the PUBF North Lake report as "16 Gymnopilus cf. purpuratus" with "species ID 2462". Could these be G. purp. pins? Cute. Purps on a log? as above, aerial view Colourful stuff. there may be G. allopantus and G. purpuratus side by side here? or something else entirely? i like this photo. and, what are we looking at here? Galerina? any help identifying these shrooms would be appreciated. it'd be good to hear from Mycot about now, seeing as s/he started the whole thing... apologies if photos are small, these are the first i have posted and just getting the hang of it.

longtime reader, non-prolific poster. member previously registered as "the poet" or "poet" or some such. changed me name 'cause couldn't remember username and/or password. back now. just wondering what's the latest news in the south west; has ydarb cleaned the place out, or are people still finding this late in the season?