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 ID Please - SE Florida
#15802692 - 02/13/12 11:23 AM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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Hello all, this is my first post in this forum, I was hoping for a little bit of help with the ID of these mushrooms. If they are active/safe (my main concern) as well as the potency/ if there is a difference in potency between the caps and stems. Any help is really appreciated, I apologize for the quality of the pictures. If they are too blurry please let me know and I'll try to change the settings on the camera.
Habitat:
These mushrooms were given to me in Southern Florida, not sure where they were picked from.
Gills:
The one bigger cap I have has a light to medium brown color on the gills
Stem:
Stems are from 1 inch to 3 inches long, solid, and quarter inch thick.
Cap:
Caps range from about a quarter of an inch to a half inch. The Smaller ones are a very dark brown, the bigger one is a very light brown, almost off white.
Bruising:
Since they are dried, I don't know if bruising applies but some of the smaller caps have a faint blueish tint around the bottom of the outside of the cap.
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Re: ID Please - SE Florida [Re: kr0nik0]
#15802702 - 02/13/12 11:25 AM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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your pics are very blurry, but obviously, psilocybe cubensis so they are safe, and we could talk all day about caps/stems, but the easy short answer is they are about the same.
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Re: ID Please - SE Florida [Re: SomeGuy]
#15802726 - 02/13/12 11:31 AM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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@someguy: Thank you so much for your help, it's been a few years since I've had a chance to eat mushrooms, and just wanted to make sure they were active and safe. Also thank you for the quick reply. Greatly appreciated!
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Re: ID Please - SE Florida [Re: kr0nik0]
#15802739 - 02/13/12 11:34 AM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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Re: ID Please - SE Florida [Re: SomeGuy]
#15804135 - 02/13/12 04:16 PM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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How can you tell those are cubensis? I can't make out anything from the photos other than a general tannish/light brown color.
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Re: ID Please - SE Florida [Re: kr0nik0]
#15804170 - 02/13/12 04:23 PM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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The one bigger cap I have has a light to medium brown color on the gills
A mature cap should have dark purplush brown gills, but a semi-mature cap would have light to medium brown color.
In the photo I can't tell if those are mushrooms or twisted up napkins - Could you possibly post a better one? Either take more with your phone in better lighting with sharper focus, or preferably, use a digital camera with macro mode enabled in good lighting.
The blue staining is encouraging and it is likely that they are cubensis, but your post just doesn't have enough information for me to be able to tell you if these are safe to eat.
Welcome to the site, enjoy your time here, and you are very wise to post about these before eating them.
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Quote:
Alan Rockefeller said:
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The one bigger cap I have has a light to medium brown color on the gills
In the photo I can't tell if those are mushrooms or twisted up napkins - Could you possibly post a better one? Either take more with your phone in better lighting with sharper focus, or preferably, use a digital camera with macro mode enabled in good lighting.
Thanks for your input, I did actually use a digital camera and tried to get the macro settings right, but couldn't get the focus right (I'm not much of a photographer). Give me a a few minutes so I can try to upload some better pictures since I am planning on ingesting these in a couple hours.
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Re: ID Please - SE Florida [Re: kr0nik0]
#15804847 - 02/13/12 06:16 PM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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Ok here is the best I could do with the pictures for right now. Hopefully they will be a bit more helpful.
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Re: ID Please - SE Florida [Re: kr0nik0]
#15804991 - 02/13/12 06:35 PM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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take an old tooth-brush and scrub the shit off of the bottom, unless you like shit
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Re: ID Please - SE Florida [Re: kr0nik0]
#15805018 - 02/13/12 06:39 PM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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Try addQuote:
kr0nik0 said:
Ok here is the best I could do with the pictures for right now. Hopefully they will be a bit more helpful.
Turn on the macro mode (Usually marked by a flower symbol) and/or hold the camera farther away from the subject.
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Re: ID Please - SE Florida [Re: SomeGuy]
#15805021 - 02/13/12 06:40 PM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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haha good looking out
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Re: ID Please - SE Florida [Re: Byrain]
#15805030 - 02/13/12 06:41 PM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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you know you push the button half-way down and wait of the box in the view-finder to turn green right? They are still P. cubesis
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Re: ID Please - SE Florida [Re: SomeGuy]
#15805069 - 02/13/12 06:48 PM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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yea I had the macro (flower symbol) turned on, I might of just been too close. The second set of pics were taken with my phone. Well, time to eat up. Looking forward to this trip. I'll let you guys know how it goes...
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Re: ID Please - SE Florida [Re: SomeGuy]
#15805163 - 02/13/12 07:02 PM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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Quote:
SomeGuy said:
take an old tooth-brush and scrub the shit off of the bottom, unless you like shit
I just break the stem bases off, but there isn't really anything wrong with eating old cow shit. It isn't anything like human shit, its basically a pile of grass after awhile.
Hold the camera further away, press the button down half way, wait for it to focus, once the pic is sharp press it the rest of the way.
The new pics look more like P. cubensis.
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