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auweia said:
also, for Nightflyer over in Europe with our San Francisco strains. I forgot about this one from last year

not saying your cyans and friscosas will merge, it depends on how different they are...What's been going on in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than ten years, for multiple generations, is both these related species have literally been fucking with each other. Some don't like each other, but some do. ....and for those that do, it gets to the point where you can look at it and say, 'that's p cyanescens', but it sort of looks like they can't decide whether to become wavy or not

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Hi Auweia
greetings from the other side of the planet! 

They are still fruiting because of the mild temps.
Let's wait and see; maybe they will merge someday.




Bay Area strains of Cyanofriscosa and Cyanescens
fruiting in Central Europe:
(Nightshot)

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auweia said:
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco this morning,

near a regular cyan patch. I've seen this once before about 6 years ago, maybe half mile away. Sent a photo to Stamets and he couldn't figure it out. Could be just a long stem friscosa, could be something Azure like...there's certainly more bluing than friscosas...I'll keep them separated in case Alan wants to do a scope



regular cyan on the right and left in the newspaper shot

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auweia said:
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco this morning,

near a regular cyan patch. I've seen this once before about 6 years ago, maybe half mile away. Sent a photo to Stamets and he couldn't figure it out. Could be just a long stem friscosa, could be something Azure like...there's certainly more bluing than friscosas...I'll keep them separated in case Alan wants to do a scope



regular cyan on the right and left in the newspaper shot

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Those long stem friscosa are the exact kind I find here in Washington. In fact, the long stems are common here. I just picked about 20 long stemmed specimens earlier today.

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shattered and tossed an worn, too shocking to see

Cat Stevens, 1971, from the film, Harold and Maude, filmed around San Francisco, 1971

it's a cult classic...they also distributed spores 

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the re-emergence of the monster strain here in San Francisco. It's as thick as your pinky

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Probably one of those small "Bic lighters"

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the re-emergence of the monster strain here in San Francisco. It's as thick as your pinky

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Probably one of those small "Bic lighters"

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ah  hahaha

yeah, that's it..that's the ticket

this strain is insane.....humbling..I'm telling ya


fingers nearly black.....can't believe it in a drought year

*reduced to babbling mono syllables*

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Fahkface said:
"Red Hypholomas"?


Looks more like Leratiomyces ceres (Stropharia aurantiaca) . You mean them? I never heard of any red Hypholomas...

If you mean Leratiomyces ceres, it's not directly uncommon for them to grow side by side.

I've seen them growing in a colourful mix quiet some times.
Maybe this is more common over here

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auweia said:
nah, it's the same thing

http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Leratiomyces_ceres.html

nomenclature has changed over the years...used to be called naemataloma' years ago, then 'stropharia'..

and then they got it in their heads to change it yet again, to 'hypholoma'

well...whatever...it's still the same damn red mushroom that likes the exact same habitat as cyans

and...and ...OMG, it has yet another new name

Leratiomyces ceres

stay tuned to this program next year, when we come up with yet another new name  :P

and in 20 years, 20 new names....yeah, that'll fix it for sure

these red stropharias are pretty much world wide..and in Germany

but here in the San Francisco Bay Area, you don't usually see this intertwined mycelium with cyans like that..nearby, yes, but that close together...not usually

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Fahkface said:
"Red Hypholomas"?


Looks more like Leratiomyces ceres (Stropharia aurantiaca) . You mean them? I never heard of any red Hypholomas...

If you mean Leratiomyces ceres, it's not directly uncommon for them to grow side by side.

I've seen them growing in a colourful mix quiet some times.
Maybe this is more common over here

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Yeah, this whole name thing has had it's impact on me as well. The result is probably going to be me giving it a totally new name. Such as Mushroomensis redicolora.

This whole name thing sucks in my opinion!
If there's an ID request on one of these things, it doesn't really matter what name you right down. It's always old...