Welcome to the Shroomery, Mitch.  Nice flush and great mushrooms.

I'd like to hear some of the West Coast weigh in on these.  In my experience I would immediately call those Azures from the classic Azure morphology.  Did you try bruising them?  I've seen friscos bruise as dark, I'm just curious.  Alan has posted some umbonate friscos on the Internet but I don't know if he did the microscopy necessary to distinguish them.  I do know that multiple species can group if the conditions are right.

Here's an example of friscos and cyans mingled together.



Here are two of Alan's umbonate variety.

http://www.mushroomobserver.org/image/show_image/8469?obs=5035&seq_key=793173
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Psilocybe_cyanofriscosa_8486.jpg

He can explain them.

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I have seen multiple photos of the cyanofriscosa with an umbo making it virtually identical to the azurescens.

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Alan Rockefeller said:


Cyanofriscana is more correct latin...

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do the cyanofriscanas become wavy as they mature, or is the cap margin generally even, as is with the azures?

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I found a large patch yesterday of what i assumed were regular cyans,

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I am now printing a bunch of azures to make spray bottles and hopefully start some urban patches like the one you found for next year

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Your success rate will be a lot higher, if you just knock up some PF jars with Azure spores and either spawn it directly to out door beds (especially ones that were made by you), or spawn it to a bigger amount of wood chips and let them colonize first, before you use it as the actually outdoor spawn.

Making spore solutions and spraying it to outdoor beds is definitely better than nothing, but when you consider HOW many mushroom spores fly through the world and -compared to that- how few mushrooms are actually growing, you could conclude that there's a) a lot of competition and b) most places ain't really suitable for mushrooms to grow, for reasons you probably can't really see.

Just as an advise

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Your success rate will be a lot higher, if you just knock up some PF jars with Azure spores and either spawn it directly to out door beds (especially ones that were made by you), or spawn it to a bigger amount of wood chips and let them colonize first, before you use it as the actually outdoor spawn.

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CubeBensies said:

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Your success rate will be a lot higher, if you just knock up some PF jars with Azure spores and either spawn it directly to out door beds (especially ones that were made by you), or spawn it to a bigger amount of wood chips and let them colonize first, before you use it as the actually outdoor spawn.

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I realize that it would work better to make spawn as you suggested but spraying chip beds is awkward enough and draws plenty of stares as it is.  Hauling a bunch of spawn into public parks and digging around in beds there just seems downright sketchy.  My goal is to try and introduce this species to the seattle area for the long haul, not to make personal patches.  I have a huge pile of azure spores now and I am going to start spraying away today!

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As I said, it's better than doing nothing!
But when you really want to introduce this species to your town, you shouldn't hesitate to use a way, that's definitely more successful, even if it means higher costs (that are still near to zero), more time exposure and maybe some awkward reactions.
BTW, it's done pretty quickly, so I wouldn't really be scared of being "busted" or "detected"

Anyway, it's your decision and none of my concerns.
In the end, I think it's a noble purpose anyway, so feel respected for it (even it it doesn't matter to you )

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Joshua said:
From personal collections.

Joshua

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Long time, no see.  Collections of Psilocybe cyanofibrillosa are scarcer than hen's teeth.  A micrograph of them and a photograph of the mushrooms would go a long way to verify your claim.  Most collections are something else, usually P. cyanofriscosa.

The spores in my avatar are P. caerulipes, which I found last year.  The first ones ever reported with accuracy from the Shroomery.