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 sparkle
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 Termitomyces ID please 
#16617145 - 07/30/12 05:22 PM (10 months, 13 days ago) |
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Habitat:
Northern Philippines, on termite mound
Stem:
6"
Cap:
Diameter 9"
Spore print color:
White
Bruising:
No bruising
Meaty Smell
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bloodworm
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Re: Termitomyces ID please [Re: sparkle]
#16617232 - 07/30/12 05:36 PM (10 months, 13 days ago) |
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were the gills attached?
Megacollybia maybe...
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Funki Porcini
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Re: Termitomyces ID please [Re: bloodworm]
#16617256 - 07/30/12 05:40 PM (10 months, 13 days ago) |
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doesn't look like a Megacollybia to me.could be Termitomyces eurrhizus.
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bloodworm
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holy shit...
lol.
i thought that was a genus joke...
never heard of it before.
awesome.
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Re: Termitomyces ID please [Re: bloodworm]
#16617306 - 07/30/12 05:47 PM (10 months, 13 days ago) |
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I wonder what the small red spots on the gills are all about?
Cool find!
 Grova
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Funki Porcini
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Re: Termitomyces ID please [Re: Grova]
#16617313 - 07/30/12 05:48 PM (10 months, 13 days ago) |
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Yeah,I found out about these few years back,they are a very interesting group of fungus.
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bloodworm
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no kidding.
i just figured...
termites, wood...
lol.
very cool.
peace and love
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Funki Porcini
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Re: Termitomyces ID please [Re: bloodworm]
#16617337 - 07/30/12 05:51 PM (10 months, 13 days ago) |
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It is indeed
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Kokanee Shroom
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Interesting! I thought the O.P. was describing a mushroom eaten by bugs. 
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sparkle
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Grova, the small red spot is a red insect that eats mushrooms around here. Termitomyces is indeed an interesting group. Fungal gardens cultivated by termites...fascinating. Are all termitomyces edible?
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Re: Termitomyces ID please [Re: sparkle]
#16618530 - 07/30/12 09:28 PM (10 months, 13 days ago) |
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Nice find Sparkle! I don't believe there are any poisonous Termitomyces species but I'm not very familiar with that genus. Maybe ToxicMan might know.
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Re: Termitomyces ID please [Re: Bobzimmer]
#16625926 - 08/01/12 02:19 AM (10 months, 11 days ago) |
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Termitomyces albuminosa, this species in Phillipines is not white on the pileus but slightly oker brownish, Its to big for eurhizus who is mostly darker to the greyish side
This a pict of eurhizus
This pict of albuminosa
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cool find!!
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sparkle
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The Termitomyces albuminosa pictures I see has a ring. Even your one in Mushroom Observer. This has no ring at all.
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Re: Termitomyces ID please [Re: sparkle]
#16634619 - 08/02/12 05:53 PM (10 months, 10 days ago) |
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Term albuminosa has no ring, as far i observed none of the Termitomyces has veilnor ring
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bitepourrie
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here go pict of Term eurihus and albuminosa, the smaller one and greyish is the eurihus. I harvested about 6 kilo from the termite hills in the mahohany plantation (over 35 termitehills are producing). I t gone be a delicious termite mushroom feast tonight with a few glasses of red wine and some hot spices .... cheers
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Re: Termitomyces ID please [Re: bitepourrie]
#16685394 - 08/12/12 02:29 AM (10 months, 21 hours ago) |
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That's the one. Yup, it's delicious. I cloned it and what do I do now? Do I put a hole in every mound I see and pour grain spawn into it?
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Re: Termitomyces ID please [Re: sparkle]
#16685836 - 08/12/12 05:10 AM (10 months, 19 hours ago) |
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lol no sparkle, let it go on agar needs about 3 weeks(at my experience), next on grain (dont grow well on wheat and other kind, only sorghum do well withsome lime and darak), when the mycelium start to clump its ready,
1) You can make holes in mounts and put near the termite nest combs but that will take long and its very erratic.
2) You dig out some termite nest combs , dry them and crumble them, spread the mycelium on the combs and cover with soil from the termite mount and wait, the trick is the right heat(approximatively 30 Celsius and moisture, its very tricky i get approximatively 30 pct succes only, i just do it for my own consumption as i consider it not reliable enough for commercial use
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sparkle
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 Re: Termitomyces ID please [Re: bitepourrie]
#16686148 - 08/12/12 08:13 AM (10 months, 16 hours ago) |
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Did not have agar at that time so I cloned it straight to sorghum (which I grew) then transferred it to more sorghum flasks and today...
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