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TimmiT said: It's hard to believe that these are the same species

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I know exactly what you mean. The different colours and shapes baffle me

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Mycorrhiza said:
Nice montage there msanchez420, tricky little buggers.
I'm printing all my sub finds, to double check ID, and perhaps to plant those prints in virgin habitats (anyone know why this shouldn't work? I'll have a look on cultivation)

I'm finding variation in spore colour even among subs with similar morphology. Print colour ranging from dark almost black purple, with most prints around the standard purple-black and some definitely brownish purple.
I haven't risked any of the brownish printing mushrooms yet, thoughts?

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Spray the spores in woodchip beds, that's how mushrooms do it in nature - they don't go out and make up agar or use the cardboard tek and they seem to pop up just fine

Post photos of any that you are unsure of, we'll have a look for you and give a ID.

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jsnake said:
Something I find strange about this thread. He's talking about Psilocybe Subaeruginosa, not Panaeolus Sub, yet people keep uploading sub pics. I found some I think are Ps Sub, but I'm noob as and gotta get them IDed, even though spore prints match. They don't look anything like the pics I've seen of ps sub, and stem isn't hollow :S?

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The mushrooms found under pines break their veils much much earlier than ones found around eucalypts, infact no matter how small the ones under pines were they seemed to always have broken veils.
The pine mushrooms develop much flatter or wavy caps, while the eucalypt ones are a slightly lighter colour with much rounder caps.
Lastly, the ones grown under pines display a much stronger bruising reaction, even glowing blue before being handled, I'm not sure if they're much more potent, I didnt notice a big difference tripping on them to the ones found under eucalypts.

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