I have been mushrooming for edibles 5 years plus and have been lucky to find much of the entirety I think, of edibles, many of them from my first year in the woods. Perhaps the southern climate as opposed to northern greece, and the habitat of choice [fir/oak woods] for edible hunting is the reason I haven't found anything like this so far, despite I am an avid mushroom hunter all these years.
I first present to this community as I really love you guys, and also love the level of attitudes in here....not anything really to be taken as a favour, but nevertheless, I do wanna do it first here. [if you don't compliment me enough for this, I will just copy past it in other forums as is :P ]
So here they come. Rain has fallen on these, so it's a rather wetty state. The black/bruised colour state of the caps is due to rain to. Only fresh ones are orangey/browny
These were coming in a place where there was moss, but when I tried to unburry underneath some of them, I found there was wood debris below. There is evident striation in the cap margin, there is an umbo most of times, sometimes quite broad, and blueing is more evident in the base of the stem, at least at the field, at first-time. Mycelial hyphae where characteristic, and rather thick. Not bluing to my attention.
A nice [iMO] observation is that [since I put the older and more worn-out by worms and rain and the newer fresher ones separately] the old ones bruised more readily in the base, right in the field , propably the only place not harmed yet, but the fresher ones I picked, even though they didn't blue so readily in the leg unless cut in the very base, but when I arrived home, they had blued in random spots in the whole body. The cap indeed blues as well, it is just not a very strong blueing reaction, but this is an observation from a guy that even though an knowledgeable person in mushrooms , hasn't seen any other species blueingreaction in the psilo/pan family. Anyways, I suppose this species has moderate psilocin content in the whole body.
Some friend ID'ed this as P.subbalteatus, but since I had studied it in the past, and eventually saw and picked old and fresh ones a week after in the same spot, these were rather a psilocybe Anyways, this is Waaaay different than what I have in my mind for Pan.subbalteatus.
I have to make clear that the whole thing is purely scientific and educational to me. I have been studying mushrooms for a long time.
These last are after a while of drying in the dehydrator. These samples are going to expert mycologists in order to fill the fungal recording in my country, which is seriously understudied. This is what I meant by seriously interesting in the sport.
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would love to see what do you think of all this...!
I have been mushrooming for edibles 5 years plus and have been lucky to find much of the entirety I think, of edibles, many of them from my first year in the woods. Perhaps the southern climate as opposed to northern greece, and the habitat of choice [fir/oak woods] for edible hunting is the reason I haven't found anything like this so far, despite I am an avid mushroom hunter all these years.
I first present to this community as I really love you guys, and also love the level of attitudes in here....not anything really to be taken as a favour, but nevertheless, I do wanna do it first here. [if you don't compliment me enough for this, I will just copy past it in other forums as is
:P ]
So here they come. Rain has fallen on these, so it's a rather wetty state. The black/bruised colour state of the caps is due to rain to. Only fresh ones are orangey/browny
These were coming in a place where there was moss, but when I tried to unburry underneath some of them, I found there was wood debris below. There is evident striation in the cap margin, there is an umbo most of times, sometimes quite broad, and blueing is more evident in the base of the stem, at least at the field, at first-time. Mycelial hyphae where characteristic, and rather thick. Not bluing to my attention.
A nice [iMO] observation is that [since I put the older and more worn-out by worms and rain and the newer fresher ones separately] the old ones bruised more readily in the base, right in the field , propably the only place not harmed yet, but the fresher ones I picked, even though they didn't blue so readily in the leg unless cut in the very base, but when I arrived home, they had blued in random spots in the whole body. The cap indeed blues as well, it is just not a very strong blueing reaction, but this is an observation from a guy that even though an knowledgeable person in mushrooms , hasn't seen any other species blueingreaction in the psilo/pan family. Anyways, I suppose this species has moderate psilocin content in the whole body.
Some friend ID'ed this as P.subbalteatus, but since I had studied it in the past, and eventually saw and picked old and fresh ones a week after in the same spot, these were rather a psilocybe Anyways, this is Waaaay different than what I have in my mind for Pan.subbalteatus.
I have to make clear that the whole thing is purely scientific and educational to me. I have been studying mushrooms for a long time.
These last are after a while of drying in the dehydrator. These samples are going to expert mycologists in order to fill the fungal recording in my country, which is seriously understudied. This is what I meant by seriously interesting in the sport.
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would love to see what do you think of all this...!
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