enfaded said:

Hi To everyone here !

I've being doing quite A bit of research lately into shrooming and mushrooms and am extremely interested on going on a hunt for myself.

I'm thinking of heading out to Central NSW just outside of the blue mountains and doing a bit of hunting one of the many introduced Radaita Pine State Forests out there. Obviously looking for the types of mushrooms that thrive in pine mulch and deposited matter such as P. australiana, P. eucalypta  P. tasmania /Psilocybe subaeruginosa

Any particular advice or experiences anyone here has in pine forest hunting ?

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I find it ironic that you plan on looking for P. eucalypta in a pine forest
Anyway P. australiana, P. eucalypta  P. tasmania are all synonymous with P. subaeruginosa, and yes they do grow in pine forests as well as around native trees (in woody wet undergrowths, water run offs, between two steep hills, near creeks etc).
In the best places you can feel the moisture in the air, often there will be grass (such as that found in my sig) growing between bits of wood and there are often lots of ferns. Look under bushes and on the sides of roads (where water collects). Basically use your judgement and look for particularly wet places.

enfaded said:

Thanks for the kind advice everyone !

A Few more brief questions , When does the Shrooming season end roughly and since im hunting for P. subaeruginosa im somewhat concerned that I may accidentally pick Conocybe filaris, sources describe it as looking extremely like  P. subaeruginosa and possesses extremely toxic chemicals

Quote from wikipedia "Conocybe filaris have been shown to contain amatoxins, which are highly toxic to the liver and are responsible for many deaths by poisoning from mushrooms in the genera Amanita  and Lepiota. They are sometimes mistaken for Psilocybe, especially the Psilocybe cyanescens and the Psilocybe subaeruginosa species due to their similar looking Pileus (cap). "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conocybe_filaris



This type of mushroom seems to have a dish like structure about midway down the stem , I understand that P. subaeruginosa doesnt possess such a characteristic, can anyone confirm this and perhaps any other differences.

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ouijah said:

Deadly ones scare me! I don't want to die! I hate that some look like subs.

Does anyone know if the toxins are water soluble?
Say you were to accidentally pick one with subs and not spot it and have some strained tea with it... would it do the same as digesting the actual mushroom?

I picked a mushroom that wasn't a sub (i think) but threw it out. The weird thing about it is it bruised just like a sub and It didn't have a skirt but it looks exactly like some conocybe filaris pics that google returns.

I still have a couple of photos of it, been meaning to get an ID but haven't gotten around to uploading them. The only reason i threw it out is coz it didn't have a pointy bit on the cap... thank god.. otherwise i might have eaten it.
After seeing some conocybe filaris pics I have realized how dangerous a tiny little identification mistake could be..

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johnny_peyote said:

I think its a case of grass is greener if you get what i mean. Whenever i see somebody posting finds i almost always think, damn those look better than mine

Trust me a lot of mine were pretty skanky looking, i only took photos of the nice looking ones

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Greener than my grass man

lol
I've combed almost every square inch of this hick town and all I can find is the sort of crap you'd smack the fuck out of with a golf club.
You lucky bastards.

Kubol said:

I look high. I look wide. I go to the mountains for a few days, and I go for numerous lunch time bush walks in a 30km radius from my home. I take the advice and hints from hunters I meet through friends. I say special prayers before going to bed. I find nothing. And then, the other day, I take my son to pre-school, and what do I find growing under the trees along side the pre-school fence? A nice little patch of subs!
Mostly pins, but I take a few anyway, because I don't like my chances in a busy spot like that. (Don't worry, I did it later, without my son, his buddies and teachers watching.)

So, should I dose pins and semi-mature fruits as I would with larger, more mature specimens?

-K

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johnny_peyote said:

I think its a case of grass is greener if you get what i mean. Whenever i see somebody posting finds i almost always think, damn those look better than mine

Trust me a lot of mine were pretty skanky looking, i only took photos of the nice looking ones

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Goldy said:

johnny_peyote said:

I think its a case of grass is greener if you get what i mean. Whenever i see somebody posting finds i almost always think, damn those look better than mine

Trust me a lot of mine were pretty skanky looking, i only took photos of the nice looking ones

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Greener than my grass man

lol
I've combed almost every square inch of this hick town and all I can find is the sort of crap you'd smack the fuck out of with a golf club.
You lucky bastards.

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Canberra said:

I made some shroom tea for the first time, but the tea tasted very mushroomy. I was lead to believe it would have no taste. It was made with dry mushrooms - what gives?

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Yeah mine always tastes exceptionally foul. I mix it with some rosehip tea and sugar, cancels out the taste, tastes like odd red cordial. I hate the smell/taste of dry shrooms

Also how long do ya'll normally wait after a good rain starts? 2-3 days? a week? I wanna go now but it has only been raining for like 2 days here, I don't want to go out and find heaps of pins and have to go back again.