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 Rare Chorioactis geaster '‘Devil’s Cigar’ fungus discovered in Nara
#8732224 - 08/06/08 01:41 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Saw this article... Looks interesting.
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/08/rare-devils-cigar-fungus-discovered-in-nara/
http://sankei.jp.msn.com/culture/academic/080726/acd0807260002000-n1.htm
http://www.sas.org/E-Bulletin/2004-01-16/mimsci/body.html
http://smt.blogs.com/mari_diary/2008/07/morinaga-got-th.html
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One of the world’s rarest fungi, an exotic star-shaped mushroom known to exist at only three locations on Earth, has been discovered in the mountains of Nara prefecture.
The Devil’s Cigar (a.k.a. “Texas Star”) — known to botanists as Chorioactis geaster — had been observed only in central Texas and at two remote locations in Japan prior to the recent discovery in Nara. The peculiar fungus is described as a dark brown cigar-shaped capsule that transforms into a tan-colored star when it splits open to release its spores. It is also one of only a few known fungi that produce an audible hiss when releasing spores.
First reported in 1893 in Austin, Texas, the curious mushroom appears in a limited area of central Texas each year, and until now, the rare sightings in Japan have occurred in forests in Miyazaki and Kochi prefectures. The fungus is included on the red list of threatened plants published by Japan’s Environment Ministry.
The recent Nara discovery was made by Masakuni Kimura, curator of a natural history museum in the town of Kawakami (Nara prefecture). Kimura first encountered Devil’s Cigars in October 2006 while surveying a forest near Kawakami, where he found 12 of them growing from a dead oak tree next to a mountain stream at an elevation of 470 meters (about 1,550 ft). Nearly a year later, in September 2007, he discovered four more of the mushrooms when he returned to the site with Shuichi Kurogi, curator of the Miyazaki Prefectural Museum of Nature and History. Their findings were presented at a recent meeting of the Mycological Society of Japan.
The site of the Nara discovery, like the previous Miyazaki and Kochi sites, is located in a humid forest. At all three sites, the Devil’s Cigars were observed growing on dead oak trees near a stream.
In central Texas (which is located at approximately the same latitude as southern Japan), the rare fungus appears during fall and winter, growing from the stumps and dead roots of cedar elm trees.
Tsuyoshi Hosoya, head botanist at Japan’s National Science Museum, says, “The DNA of the Devil’s Cigar from Miyazaki is consistent with the one from Texas. They are regarded as the same species.”
While it is unknown how this exceedingly rare mushroom came to appear only in Japan and central Texas, one intriguing theory suggests that spores from Japan were swept up in an Asian dust cloud and carried across the globe.
[Sources: Sankei, SAS via Watashi to Tokyo]
See also: Rainy season brings glow-in-the-dark mushrooms
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Re: Rare Chorioactis geaster '‘Devil’s Cigar’ fungus discovered in Nara [Re: implee]
#8732226 - 08/06/08 01:44 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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"While it is unknown how this exceedingly rare mushroom came to appear only in Japan and central Texas, one intriguing theory suggests that spores from Japan were swept up in an Asian dust cloud and carried across the globe. "
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Re: Rare Chorioactis geaster '‘Devil’s Cigar’ fungus discovered in Nara [Re: implee]
#8732239 - 08/06/08 01:55 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Glow in the dark mushrooms?
Intense.
That mushroom is sweet :o
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Re: Rare Chorioactis geaster '‘Devil’s Cigar’ fungus discovered in Nara [Re: HappyTrippin]
#8732243 - 08/06/08 01:58 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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"It is also one of only a few known fungi that produce an audible hiss when releasing spores."-----implee
That is freaking cool.....it is an odd looking mushie, almost so odd it is pretty!
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Re: Rare Chorioactis geaster '‘Devil’s Cigar’ fungus discovered in Nara [Re: rugergirl79]
#8732248 - 08/06/08 02:04 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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I wanna find some uber rare mushrooms 
But i cant even find the common ones (copes) :O
I guess it starts out like a puff ball or some shit then rips open... a time lapse of this would be dope 
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Re: Rare Chorioactis geaster '‘Devil’s Cigar’ fungus discovered in Nara [Re: implee]
#8732250 - 08/06/08 02:06 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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I'd grow em just for show, they're a very pretty mushroom.
And i'd grow the glow in the dark mushrooms for my bedroom, that would be awesome.
I'm in the same boat.
I can find mushrooms in my yard. but nothing i wanna eat :o
But forests? Cow pastures? Stables? Pfft. nothing
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Re: Rare Chorioactis geaster '‘Devil’s Cigar’ fungus discovered in Nara [Re: HappyTrippin]
#8732254 - 08/06/08 02:08 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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It would be dope to find glow in the dark mushrooms, you would have to hunt at night though!
Heres some pictures i found on google
"The Mycena lux-coeli mushrooms, known locally as shii no tomobishi-dake (literally, “chinquapin glow mushrooms”), sprout from fallen chinquapin trees. "
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Re: Rare Chorioactis geaster '‘Devil’s Cigar’ fungus discovered in Nara [Re: implee]
#8732255 - 08/06/08 02:10 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yeah. THose would make a great addition to my bedroom.
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Re: Rare Chorioactis geaster '‘Devil’s Cigar’ fungus discovered in Nara [Re: HappyTrippin]
#8732256 - 08/06/08 02:11 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Pan subbs grow in well taken care of lawns, and new sod lawns all across america, gyms might grow in your woods also... You just gotta go after a decent amount of rain.
Check out subbed hunters subb guide
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/7008112#7008112
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Gymnopilus sp.
Panaeolus subbalteatus
Pluteus salicinus
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Re: Rare Chorioactis geaster '‘Devil’s Cigar’ fungus discovered in Nara [Re: implee]
#8732258 - 08/06/08 02:15 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Subs are weak though, right?
I've never done shrooms myself.
I'm more interested in gyms than anything, don't really have a rich neighborhood in this town.
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Re: Rare Chorioactis geaster '‘Devil’s Cigar’ fungus discovered in Nara [Re: HappyTrippin]
#8732264 - 08/06/08 02:18 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Fuck yeah dude, maybe they can be cultivated with sawdust cakes that would be so worth a month of colonization time, just to have them fruit for a few days then die. I would definitly do it if it were possible.
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Re: Rare Chorioactis geaster '‘Devil’s Cigar’ fungus discovered in Nara [Re: HappyTrippin]
#8732266 - 08/06/08 02:19 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Word man they tend to be weaker, ive never dosed subbs only found them a few times... But some respectable people say they can be as potent as cubes.
Good luck with the gyms and subbs
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Re: Rare Chorioactis geaster '‘Devil’s Cigar’ fungus discovered in Nara [Re: HappyTrippin]
#8732342 - 08/06/08 03:30 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
HappyTrippin said:
Subs are weak though, right?
I've never done shrooms myself.
I'm more interested in gyms than anything, don't really have a rich neighborhood in this town.
Subbs are as potent as cubies by weight, i have had many level three and one level 4 trip on subbs. Subbs are awesome.
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Re: Rare Chorioactis geaster '‘Devil’s Cigar’ fungus discovered in Nara [Re: implee]
#8732391 - 08/06/08 03:57 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Excellent thread, imp! 
Mycena lux-coeli were featured in National Geographic many years ago before the Internet. I always wanted to get a spore print but never have been able to find one.
The Devil's Cigar is rare, but I picked 10 pounds yesterday.
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Re: Rare Chorioactis geaster '‘Devil’s Cigar’ fungus discovered in Nara [Re: Mr. Mushrooms]
#8732398 - 08/06/08 04:00 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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I think curecat said she had found a glowing one once, but couldnt get a picture...
I might be mixing it up with someone else though :/
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Re: Rare Chorioactis geaster '‘Devil’s Cigar’ fungus discovered in Nara [Re: implee]
#8732412 - 08/06/08 04:10 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Mycena lux-coeli is only from Japan. I think ShroomyDan posted a pic of Panellus stipticus with a 15 second exposure. It was ok, but out of focus and the res sucked.
I've seen the Jack-O-Lantern glow and like Arora says you need to take one into a closet and eat a cheese sandwich before you'll see anything. I had an old fully manual Nikon and got a pic of them glowing. I used an 8-hour exposure-no shit.
Panellus glows pretty bright. I've seen them in the woods from 100 feet away. I grew some Honey mushrooms that glowed in the petri dish too. It was cool but not impressive.
And I was kidding about picking the Devil's Cigar of course. Pretty rockin' mushroom!
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Re: Rare Chorioactis geaster '‘Devil’s Cigar’ fungus discovered in Nara [Re: Mr. Mushrooms]
#8732441 - 08/06/08 04:35 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Ha my bad i guess she found another type of glowing fungus, she said it wasnt too bright but it was glowing
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 Re: Rare Chorioactis geaster '‘Devil’s Cigar’ fungus discovered in Nara [Re: implee]
#8732470 - 08/06/08 05:11 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Ive found those green glowers off of Red Bluff before
It was late in the evening, I dont think they glow all night
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Re: Rare Chorioactis geaster '‘Devil’s Cigar’ fungus discovered in Nara [Re: OldSpice]
#8732488 - 08/06/08 05:23 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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I wanna find glowing mushrooms
In a day or two the cubes should be out
Have you tripped BAWLS lately paw?
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Re: Rare Chorioactis geaster '‘Devil’s Cigar’ fungus discovered in Nara [Re: implee]
#8733072 - 08/06/08 09:41 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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those glow in the dark mushrooms are awesome
if they were edible would they make -you- glow in the dark?
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