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quadracer said:
Been finding some lawn mushrooms too, maybe I'll go on a little walk today.  So damn windy though.  I've seen some Agaricus popping up too.  What kind of temps do the stuntzii like?

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yeah Hebeloma looks right, the short stem and its texture really make it stand out as so.

the wind was insane today, I lost my hat twice, fall is here!
http://www.ssd.noaa. ;     gov/goes/west/nepac/loop-wv.html (remove the long spaces)
were starting to get some cold fronts from the arctic currents to the north and the hotter air is being pushed south-easternly.


Agaricus?!?!?! AHHHH!!!!



If I see another cluster of Agaricus californicus im gonna lose it

http://www.shroomery.org/9577/Psilocybe-stuntzii

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Reported from California as far south as Santa Cruz, but extremely rare in California.

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A POTENT STORM SYSTEM...ESPECIALLY FOR OCTOBER...WILL MOVE
INTO CENTRAL AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BEGINNING LATE MONDAY AND
CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING. THIS WILL BE A VERY DRAMATIC
CHANGE FROM THE TYPICAL LATE SUMMER PATTERN THE AREA HAS BEEN
EXPERIENCING. THE ORIGINS OF THIS STORM ARE FROM A WESTERN
PACIFIC TYPHOON CALLED MELOR THAT HIT JAPAN A FEW DAYS AGO.

RAIN AND INCREASING WIND WILL BEGIN IN THE NORTH BAY MONDAY
AFTERNOON...SPREADING SOUTH MONDAY NIGHT. TUESDAY AND TUESDAY
NIGHT SHOULD SEE THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL AND THE STRONGEST WINDS.
RAINFALL AMOUNTS COULD REACH 1 TO 3 INCHES ALONG THE COAST AND IN
THE VALLEYS. IN THE HILLS...RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL RANGE FROM 2 TO
4 INCHES IN THE NORTH BAY...WITH 3 TO 6 INCHES IN THE SANTA CRUZ
AND NORTHERN SANTA LUCIA RANGE NEAR BIG SUR. LOCAL AMOUNTS UP TO 8
TO 10 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE SANTA CRUZ AND SANTA LUCIA RANGE.
WINDS TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT WILL INCREASE TO 20 TO 40 MPH
ALONG THE COAST AND IN THE HILLS. GUSTS TO 60 MPH ARE POSSIBLE IN
THESE AREAS. STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS MAY DEVELOP IN THE NORTHERN
SALINAS VALLEY AND SOUTHERN SANTA CLARA VALLEYS WITH THIS STORM.

RAIN AND WIND WILL DECREASE ON WEDNESDAY AS THE STORM SYSTEM MOVES
TO THE EAST.

POTENTIAL IMPACTS FROM THIS STORM SYSTEM INCLUDE:

* POSSIBLE MUD AND DEBRIS FLOWS FROM BURN SCARS FROM LAST
SUMMER AND THIS SUMMER. PERSONS LIVING NEAR THESE AREAS SHOULD PAY
CLOSE ATTENTION TO UPDATED FORECASTS.
* URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING AND PONDING ON ROADWAYS AND
UNDERPASSES.
* HIGH WINDS THAT CAN DOWN TREES AND THUS POWER LINES PRODUCING POWER
OUTAGES.
* HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS DUE TO VERY SLIPPERY ROAD CONDITIONS
FROM A BUILDUP OF OIL OVER THE SUMMER AND DEBRIS SUCH AS LEAVES
ACCUMULATING ON THE ROADS.

THIS IS A POTENTIALLY SERIOUS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. LOOK
FOR MORE DETAILED STATEMENTS TO BE ISSUED AS THE STORM GETS
CLOSER. CONTINUOUS WEATHER INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE FROM THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ON NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR FROM THE
INTERNET AT: HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/SANFRANCISCO.

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auweia said:
first decent patch of the season, and some were a little old. making the San Francisco Bay area ahead of the PNW this year.  yay.

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It is not a competition, but what makes the Bay Area ahead of PNW? A couple of old specimen?

Shockvalue posted mature stuntzii more than a month ago.

I posted mature Psilocybe baeocystis exactly one month ago, and a hundred Psilocybe cyanescen pins recently.

Bring it on Bay Area!!!

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Twiztidsage said:

Bring it on Bay Area!!!

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Twiztidsage said:
Sounds like hearsay.

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Twiztidsage said:
Any suggestions?

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Pray


hope you know im kidding as far as the hostility of this competition.

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Looks like little brown kidney beans.

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more on the Panaeolopsis sp

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butyl alcohol sure works good for rehydrating, but damn it makes some nasty oily blotches on the slide

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What technique per se do you use to get that good of a shot inside your microscope?!

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Russula eccentrica often fruits close to yellow chanterelles, and is used by some collectors as an indicator species, much like Amanita muscaria is with Boletus edulis.

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good shit man, didnt know that, ive seen those before and not seen chanterelles nearby.
then again, they like to hide!

you found some chants? really? alright thats it im going on a fat hunt right now
be back in a few hours

Suimush, nice to see you're still around ( and be sure there's not many with a tat like that..hehe)

I'm not sure exactly where the photos are here on the shroomery, but you can see photos of the pins on the actual p subaeruginascens patch here

http://mushroomobserver.org/17626?search_seq=871016

that happens with p subaeruginascens in all weather conditions, and is one of the outstanding characteristics I've noticed to really separate this from most of the other actives in the Bay Area

that p subaeriginascens patch on MushroomObserver is only 30 feet away from this one just posted here, which doesn't necessarily mean much except that over the years, I've noticed some kind of 'satellite' function with related species, like cyans and friscosas

if you find friscosas, you might well find cyans nearby and visa-versa, and it's like that with this

but nobody really knows for sure until you can get this under a microscope, map it out, add it to the database, and so on

BTW, the p subaeruginascens patch nearby has NOT even started pinning yet...that will probably take another month, or two

here's another angle




very very specific underlying basic colors associated with all of the actives, nearly around the world (in fact, when I hunt on my bike, that's what I'm tuned into, is the color - a blinding second of that color will make me hit the brakes) ( I don't want to be so arrogant to say that color is the entire ID process, but it's a big part of it...the problem is that many people have different eyes, and color visions, and that can never be really corrected, so the 'color, is but one part of it, as it should be)

I tried these last year. They're allright, but nothing spectacular like p subaeruginascens nearby (but those get a lot bigger too). This in the photo is barely enough for one person

The pins however, are always dark, at least with p subaeruginascens, and that's the first time I've ever seen anything remotely suggesting anything other than this 'basic underlying color'. But this all changes within a few days, and nobody except the extremely desperate picks pins anyway..haha

actually, more specific, for pins that dark, it actually masks the underlying color, but it only takes a couple of days to turn the right 'psilocybe family' color, and then the rest of the entire life cycle is good and proper

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suimush said:
the small dark blue on the small pins is probobly from a drop in humidity.

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auweia said:
rare stuff



This is in the same area I share with Urbanism, near the p subaeruginascens patch, but it's not p subaeruginascens, and it's not cyan, friscosa, or stuntzii

these are smaller than subaer's and the potency is merely OK, and it's probably a psilocybe species (if not now, probably someday). I've tried them, they're OK, but they're so tiny. The ones in this photo, this stage, are only maybe the size of a penny

it's possible Urbanism could have seen these during one of those threads referenced on MushroomObserver, but there's also stropharias nearby (a few photos he took looked like these when they mature)

these definately aren't the same as the main p subaeruginascen patch 30 feet away, but I wouldn't be surprised if spores show they are also in section stuntzae

kinda look like mini azures

anyway, this is only the 2nd time I've seen these, last year about 10 feet away, and they don't get really big
either. Unless they start popping up all over, it's almost one of those rare things that are nice to look at but hardly worth it for 6 of these

if they ever become common like panaeolus, then yep, that would be worth it

Oh , if you blow it up and look close, there's two tiny pins, also dark like p subaeruginascens. cyan pins don't look like that, but subaeruginascens do

maybe it's one of those sub species people are trying to get a handle on that family..who knows

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auweia said:
The bay Area will always have an over all better mushroom season than the PNW because of the simple fact that your season is shorter, and it snows, even on the coast, as early as November...and that's when it's usually over

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Do they follow amanita's favorable temperature?

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cyanophilus said:
near crescent city should be going bOOM right about now, look for mushrumps

check this out
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/11031441

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