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 ehtdaedlufetarg
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 Advice and a thank you.
#8876226 - 09/04/08 10:35 AM (2 months, 27 days ago) |
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hey i just have a quick question for all you excellent mushroom IDers out there. how did you go about becoming so familiar with characteristics of all these mushrooms? i am pretty familiar with a lot of psilocybe mushrooms and a few other assorted random mushrooms. But one day i hope to be as experienced and knowledgeable as some people like Senor_hongos or Toxicman or Alan(there are many more and you know who you are). Also Thanks for all the help from All you people that are on here everyday answering ID requests of crazy mushrooms ive never seen before. you guys are the reason I kept studying and being amazed with fungi. and im sorry if this is off topic for the hunting forum but i felt the people who helped me are the people on the hunting forum so they should be the ones to see this.
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pfshroomer
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I agree!
Ive loved this website every since I joined in 03'(5years ago)
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Asht0n
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Re: Advice and a thank you. [Re: pfshroomer]
#8877342 - 09/04/08 02:20 PM (2 months, 27 days ago) |
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I'm no mycologist and I don't know an awful lot yet but what I can tell you is that between reading info and actually getting out there looking for mushrooms, I'm making some progress.
Of course I couldn't do this without the guys with experience sharing their own knowledge, so I also add my thanks. 
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Amberica
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Re: Advice and a thank you. [Re: Asht0n]
#8877805 - 09/04/08 04:08 PM (2 months, 27 days ago) |
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Well for me it was picking up some books, making a few mistakes (of course not ingesting random mushrooms though), and these lurkin' the forums.
I highly suggest going to your local bookstore or amazon and getting a book on mycology taxonomy.
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ehtdaedlufetarg
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Re: Advice and a thank you. [Re: Amberica]
#8878243 - 09/04/08 05:31 PM (2 months, 27 days ago) |
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yah. i know a lot actually. its just i have a wealth of info on psilocybes but not much else. i want to learn to identify other genus based on charecteristics. but yah it is pretty straight forward. i guess this was a thanks to all those people given tons of accurate ids a day and helping me when i was starting out.
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 Senor_Hongos
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I don't think it's off topic at all. This is the Hunting forum and as long as it isn't a topic that is against the rules like asking about the weather every 5 minutes there shouldn't be a problem. If anyone has any doubts about any topic they can PM the mods. They'll let you know if it's the wrong kind of thread.
To answer your question though, I studied. The first thing I did was join a club and I'm pretty sure ToxicMan and Alan both go to club meetings if they aren't members. The first meeting I went to I bought two field guides, Mushrooms Demystified by David Arora and the National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms. Back in that day those were the best field guides available and the pictures were mushroom porn. So like any good porn mag I looked at them over and over and over and over again. MD is about 1,000 pages long and really cool. He's got funny stories and jokes so it isn't so boring. Audubon has tons of cool pictures. And both have pretty good descriptions of mushrooms. Where do they grow? What time of year to they grow? What kind of poisons are in them? Are they good to eat? Both have glossaries so if you need to know if a basidia is carminophilous or is producing a chlamydospore you can figure it out.
If there was something I didn't know, I asked. Even now you'll see me ask ToxicMan or Alan questions because I am still learning and both of them know things I don't. (I'm sure the opposite is true as well)
So if I were you I'd ask a shitload of questions, buy some books and consider joining a club or at least attend a few meetings. You asked question in this thread and I answered. Do that anytime you like either in here or PM me. I like to talk about mushrooms and share what I know (if it isn't obvious). 
Btw, I like your name. It took me a minute to figure out what it meant.
Hongos
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Senor_Hongos
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Oh, and I forgot a book you might consider buying is How to Identify Mushrooms to Genus VI: Modern Genera by T.J. Baroni and David L. Largent at our bookstore. It describes all the modern genera and has keys that use macroscopic and microscopic features to place any mushroom in its proper genus. Has great descriptions of exactly what features define the various genera and an excellent mycology glossary. Required reading for all intermediate to advanced mycologists.*
*Taken from the link.
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Amanitas kill more people than all other mushrooms put together, so an ID of some to be eaten must be correct. An ID based on a photo on the Internets is not reliable enough to potentially risk your life on. ToxicMan
Beginner's Guide to Mushroom name pronunciation
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ehtdaedlufetarg
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Thank you hongos. exactly what i was looking for. appreciate that book reference. i have almost every field guide ive seen. so a little more "wordy" one might be good.
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 Alan Rockefeller
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The first thing I did was join a club and I'm pretty sure ToxicMan and Alan both go to club meetings if they aren't members.
All the hunting forum mods regularly go to mycology society meetings.
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How to Identify Mushrooms to Genus VI: Modern Genera by T.J. Baroni and David L. Largent at our bookstore. It describes all the modern genera and has keys that use macroscopic and microscopic features to place any mushroom in its proper genus. Has great descriptions of exactly what features define the various genera and an excellent mycology glossary. Required reading for all intermediate to advanced mycologists.
Great suggestion on a book. I wrote that description.
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Senor_Hongos
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Great description on the book.
These meetings, are they anything like church?
Everyone who is serious about mushrooms should at least attend one good meeting at a decent club.
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Amanitas kill more people than all other mushrooms put together, so an ID of some to be eaten must be correct. An ID based on a photo on the Internets is not reliable enough to potentially risk your life on. ToxicMan
Beginner's Guide to Mushroom name pronunciation
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