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D_T.eonanacatl
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Psilocybe Caerulipes 2012
#16584469 - 07/25/12 05:42 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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Bluefoot season is here again! I found a few small fruits in one of my better habitats and figured it was time to spread the word.
I plan on posting more photos in this thread throughout the season. It is nice to have a good collection all in one place. Taking photos can be difficult because this species is so tiny.
Feel free to add any confirmed caerulipes you guys find. Please keep the random ID requests in their own threads.
Good luck and happy hunting!
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Funki Porcini
Registered: 07/16/12
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Nice findsThey grow in my state as well,but I have yet to find one.The way my luck with finding the bluing pluteus is going,I'm sure I'll find some one day!
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The Lightning
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RiparianZoneJunky
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Awesome, which state are you in? I would love to find some this year!
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psylosymonreturns
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great start dude!!
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Tampanensis
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Interesting psilocybe, very nice!
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MyCoFiend420
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Re: Psilocybe Caerulipes 2012 [Re: Tampanensis]
#16585474 - 07/25/12 10:59 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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BEAuTIFUL!! once this rain is done im going to check my patch
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Rhizohunter
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Nice, I hope to be contributing to this thread this year
If I'm lucky
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amilibertine
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Re: Psilocybe Caerulipes 2012 [Re: Rhizohunter]
#16585648 - 07/25/12 11:33 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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Sweet. I should go check my ovoid spots and see if there's anything around since they like the same habitat.
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D_T.eonanacatl
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I'm in the mountains of NH. The summer heat is already cooling off here. Daytime highs in the 70's with lows around 50. Also some good rains off and on for the past few days with more on the way tomorrow. Bluefoot season will last for another month up here with the right conditions.
The key is to find beech logs in the right state of decomposition.
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Sonny Cheeba
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nice one!
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RiparianZoneJunky
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Thanks, sounds like these are a month or two away down here. Hope to find them this year, such a good looking mushroom.
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koods
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Interesting. I'm surprised it took so long to identify ovoids as a separate species - they look very different. Do they always have those spots? Kinda look like the markings on young deer.
Also seems like they are a more northerly species. Doesn't seem like anyone has found these as far south as I am, near Washington DC.
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D_T.eonanacatl
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Re: Psilocybe Caerulipes 2012 [Re: koods]
#16598850 - 07/27/12 10:31 AM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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The veil remnants (spots) are usually visible unless there is a ton of rain to wash them off.
Took a short jog this morning. Found one on a birch log in a beech habitat.
Hopefully I can borrow a better camera for some longer hunts this next week.
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D_T.eonanacatl
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A few photos from today. Season is in full swing now. Had plenty of rain the past few days so I'm finding them in more spots than normal!
I found a HUGE flush, almost too big to be careulipes. Growing from a woodchip path so I might make a new id request for that patch later.
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Funki Porcini
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NoBeginningNoEnd
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Right on D_T, you're on a roll! Would you mind keeping track of the number of mushrooms you find this entire season, as well as the wet and dry weights of each hunt (and the total weight)? It would be interesting to get figures of what we can reasonably expect.
Btw, remember all those promising spots that I was all excited about last winter and spring? Well, I've learned something important this weekend: most of the spots that looked so friggin awesome back then are now overrun with tall, dense vegetation, making them hard to navigate, and since all the other trees have all their leaves, the Beech trees don't stand out anymore; in fact, they're usually hidden behind dense leaves and vegetation.
So while it's easy enough to find Beech trees (and even downed logs) in the forest in the winter and fall, I would advise against looking in deciduous forests for Beech spots (e.g. Maple-Beech forests). I think that hunting in Hemlock forests would be way better, because Hemlock forests are quite open and there is a lack of vegetation on the ground. I will test that hypothesis tomorrow, when I go drive to my most promising spot: a fairly large Hemlock forests with tons of old Beech trees in all states of decomposition. I'll report back...hopefully no dogs chase after me this time, and hopefully I'm right about it being easily navigable this time of year.
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D_T.eonanacatl
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Here is a quick photo of the large patch I found yesterday. Biggest cluster I have ever seen!
It was raining and I had to leave, so there wasn't time to get any better photos. It confused me at first because they were growing off woodchips and had THICK stems. The woodchips underneath were a few years old and are all from trees in the same forest. It is primarily beech birch and maple, with a few oaks and pines mixed in. They were very wet and had intense bluing within 10 minutes, a few turned dark navy blue! Even the small ring around the stem was partially visible and a few had a blue tint to the ring. There was also clusters of pins surrounding the main flush, I will go back to check on those in a few days.
I have not found them under dense vegetation. Usually its in older forests with mature trees and some smaller undergrowth. I'm starting to think that timing is the most important factor. Certain logs only fruit for one week out of the whole year.
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RiparianZoneJunky
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That's interesting some of these had an annulus. I was under the impression this species lacks a ring. Great shots. I sure hope I can find some of these this year!
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D_T.eonanacatl
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Quote:
akumushi said: That's interesting some of these had an annulus. I was under the impression this species lacks a ring.
That's why I wasn't 100% sure they are caerulipes. Usually the veil tears at a very young age and it is so light and whispy that it just blends in with the stem as it grows. These ones seemed to pop up overnight and had thicker stems. Could just be a robust strain, unless I found something that hasn't been reported in my area before?
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