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An Iconography of the New Zealand Psychoactive Fungi in the Genus Psilocybe. 18
#18267127 - 05/15/13 02:31 AM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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Here I will post taxonomic studio images of the aforementioned Fungi. I hope these will be useful for identification purposes.
Psilocybe aucklandiae

P. aucklandiae, a recent collection from the same location as the above image from last year, pseudorhiza distinctly visible on two of the younger specimens.

Psilocybe makarorae, from natural habitat in Southern Beech(Nothofagus) Forest, fruiting from rotted Southern Beech wood.

Psilocybe tasmaniana, a form from woodchip gardens.

Psilocybe angulospora from multispore culture.

Psilocybe weraroa

Psilocybe weraroa var. 'subsecotioides' ITS sequences match with P. weraroa but further study is needed to gain a better understanding of what is going on with this interesting mushroom.
Edited by inski (05/20/19 12:55 AM)
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Re: An Iconography of the New Zealand Psychoactive Fungi in the Genus Psilocybe. [Re: inski]
#18267135 - 05/15/13 02:34 AM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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Very nice! This should definitely be done with Psilocybe sp. from all over.
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Re: An Iconography of the New Zealand Psychoactive Fungi in the Genus Psilocybe. [Re: Anglerfish]
#18267148 - 05/15/13 02:38 AM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yes, I agree, images like this showing many stages of growth and important taxonomic characteristics are invaluable. I have a lot depicting the Cortinarioid Fungi of NZ.
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Re: An Iconography of the New Zealand Psychoactive Fungi in the Genus Psilocybe. [Re: inski]
#18267203 - 05/15/13 03:03 AM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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nice pics
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Re: An Iconography of the New Zealand Psychoactive Fungi in the Genus Psilocybe. [Re: DustJuice] 1
#18267298 - 05/15/13 03:50 AM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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That's a very good piece of work! 
I hope someday we will have iconographies of all psychoactive species.
And of course I hope these will be added someday to your iconography of active NZ fungi... 
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Re: An Iconography of the New Zealand Psychoactive Fungi in the Genus Psilocybe. [Re: inski]
#18267442 - 05/15/13 04:57 AM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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very little bluing ... except for the makororae ... and the werare looks very .... different
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Re: An Iconography of the New Zealand Psychoactive Fungi in the Genus Psilocybe. [Re: comario3]
#18269338 - 05/15/13 03:21 PM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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comario3 said: very little bluing ... except for the makororae ... and the werare looks very .... different
Psilocybe aucklandiae is one of the most intensely bruising species in the world, usually such a dark reaction it is almost black, often with a violet hue, the specimens in my image show very little bruising because I have not abused them in any way, my collection methods are likely very different to most people here because I am trying to preserve the taxonomic characteristics.
The P. weraroa looks very different because it is a secotioid fungus, the pileus only very rarely separates from the stipe and the basidia have lost (or never had?) the ability to forcefully eject the basidiospores from the sterigmata, the evolution of this fungus is thought to have progressed with the many flightless birds that used to be here, they were mostly forages of berries from small shrubs and from the ground, in a sense P. weraroa is imitating a berry so that birds will eat it in turn dispersing the spores, now I believe insects and molluscs are the primary source of spore dispersal and this is likely the reason that the species is rather rare, usually only accuring in small areas and not spread out. I also believe it is the most ancient of all the Psilocybe, a living fossil in a sense and very important in the study of the Genus Psilocybe.
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Re: An Iconography of the New Zealand Psychoactive Fungi in the Genus Psilocybe. [Re: Sporulator]
#18269364 - 05/15/13 03:25 PM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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Sporulator said: That's a very good piece of work! 
I hope someday we will have iconographies of all psychoactive species.
And of course I hope these will be added someday to your iconography of active NZ fungi... 

Thank you my friend, it would be great to have work on all species, it is very useful for recording macroscopic characteristics.
Unfortunately I think the species you mention will not be naturalised here unless someone does some work with it, the cultures were lost
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Re: An Iconography of the New Zealand Psychoactive Fungi in the Genus Psilocybe. [Re: inski]
#18269365 - 05/15/13 03:25 PM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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This is the most beautiful thread ever, you've really raised the bar!
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Re: An Iconography of the New Zealand Psychoactive Fungi in the Genus Psilocybe. [Re: maynardjameskeenan]
#18269379 - 05/15/13 03:29 PM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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Thanks, I'm happy that you like it I have a couple of species to add but need to make new collections, maybe in the next few weeks.
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Re: An Iconography of the New Zealand Psychoactive Fungi in the Genus Psilocybe. [Re: maynardjameskeenan]
#18269389 - 05/15/13 03:32 PM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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Excellent work, huge contribution.
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Re: An Iconography of the New Zealand Psychoactive Fungi in the Genus Psilocybe. [Re: inski]
#18269399 - 05/15/13 03:34 PM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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Excellent pictures! How did you do the lighting, and what camera settings did you use?
Do you consider Psilocybe subsecotoides to be conspecific with Psilocybe weraroa? Should it be described at the variety level?
It would be awesome if you uploaded these pictures to Wikimedia Commons so we could include them in the relevant Wikipedia articles.
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Re: An Iconography of the New Zealand Psychoactive Fungi in the Genus Psilocybe. [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#18269546 - 05/15/13 03:58 PM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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Beautiful Inski! As always... The Psilocybe weraroa has got to be the coolest Psilocybe I've ever seen... It seems very interesting, I think I will look into reading more about it...
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Re: An Iconography of the New Zealand Psychoactive Fungi in the Genus Psilocybe. [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#18269568 - 05/15/13 04:01 PM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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Thanks guys.
Alan, for the lighting I have built a light using a fluorescent tube which is one of those round ones, it is of the day light spectrum, I used the original steel mounting frame but cut a round hole in the middle for my lens, the ballast I mounted in a separate box with a small computer fan to keep it cool, the fan runs of a phone charger. The apparatus is hand held, I'll try to make an image of it and post it here although it's not pretty
I set up my specimens on a light grey card with the scale and usually a leaf from the host tree if it is mycorrhizal, if not then a leaf from the tree or plant that donates the substrate.
For the camera I use the tripod and a remote shutter release and do a preset white balance with the grey card and the ring light, the colours are as accurate as I can possibly recreate. The settings for the camera in the P. weraroa image for example were all manual settings and I used 1/6s-f/20. I probably could have used a lower f/stop but it seemed to be alright, maybe f/18 or f/16 would have given a sharper image but it worked fine. Also, the images are edited RAW files that I converted to jpg files. The camera is the Nikon D3200 coupled with the AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D lens.
I believe as does Jan that P. subsecotioides is likely just a form of P. weraroa but further study is needed to confirm this theory, it could be described at the variety level at present but I don't think it should be described at the species level yet, it would likely be a mistake.
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Re: An Iconography of the New Zealand Psychoactive Fungi in the Genus Psilocybe. [Re: BjJiggles]
#18269576 - 05/15/13 04:02 PM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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BjJiggles said: Beautiful Inski! As always... The Psilocybe weraroa has got to be the coolest Psilocybe I've ever seen... It seems very interesting, I think I will look into reading more about it...
The strangest thing (to me) is it's closely related to Psilocybe cyanescens! I could see how P. subaeruginosa and cyanescens look closely related but how the fuck does a wavy-caped, chestnut-brown mushroom evolve into a white blobs thingy with no apparent gills!?!
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Re: An Iconography of the New Zealand Psychoactive Fungi in the Genus Psilocybe. [Re: maynardjameskeenan] 1
#18269611 - 05/15/13 04:07 PM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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BjJiggles said: Beautiful Inski! As always... The Psilocybe weraroa has got to be the coolest Psilocybe I've ever seen... It seems very interesting, I think I will look into reading more about it...
The strangest thing (to me) is it's closely related to Psilocybe cyanescens! I could see how P. subaeruginosa and cyanescens look closely related but how the fuck does a wavy-caped, chestnut-brown mushroom evolve into a white blobs thingy with no apparent gills!?!
Like I said, I believe it to be the most ancient of all the Psilocybe, a living fossil almost, it is more than likely that the agaricoid forms, P. cyanescens, P, azurescens, P. subaeruginosa evolved from it. In Dr Guzman's Monograph he has a tree of sorts with Weraroa at the base!
We are lucky enough to see this evolution in progress with P. subsecotioides, I suspect it is a form of P. weraroa which is evolving into an agaricoid form due to a change in environment and substrate and also a lack of flightless birds for spore dispersal, the Moa were all eatin by the Maori
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Re: An Iconography of the New Zealand Psychoactive Fungi in the Genus Psilocybe. [Re: maynardjameskeenan]
#18269619 - 05/15/13 04:09 PM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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White blobby thing?? Poor mushroom... Like the ugly duckling of Psilocybe... I think it is beautiful in it's own special way...
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Re: An Iconography of the New Zealand Psychoactive Fungi in the Genus Psilocybe. [Re: BjJiggles] 1
#18269664 - 05/15/13 04:17 PM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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BjJiggles said:
White blobby thing?? Poor mushroom... Like the ugly duckling of Psilocybe... I think it is beautiful in it's own special way...
Yes, I agree although it's not white, the young specimens are normal in colour for the genus Psilocybe, a caramel colour, as it matures and is exposed to the elements it takes on the glaucus(grey-blue) colour most people see.
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Re: An Iconography of the New Zealand Psychoactive Fungi in the Genus Psilocybe. [Re: inski]
#18269688 - 05/15/13 04:20 PM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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BjJiggles said: Beautiful Inski! As always... The Psilocybe weraroa has got to be the coolest Psilocybe I've ever seen... It seems very interesting, I think I will look into reading more about it...
The strangest thing (to me) is it's closely related to Psilocybe cyanescens! I could see how P. subaeruginosa and cyanescens look closely related but how the fuck does a wavy-caped, chestnut-brown mushroom evolve into a white blobs thingy with no apparent gills!?!
Like I said, I believe it to be the most ancient of all the Psilocybe, a living fossil almost, it is more than likely that the agaricoid forms, P. cyanescens, P, azurescens, P. subaeruginosa evolved from it. In Dr Guzman's Monograph he has a tree of sorts with Weraroa at the base!
We are lucky enough to see this evolution in progress with P. subsecotioides, I suspect it is a form of P. weraroa which is evolving into an agaricoid form due to a change in environment and substrate and also a lack of flightless birds for spore dispersal, the Moa were all eatin by the Maori:(
How did P. cyanescens/azurscens end up on the west coast of north America if the parent species is P. weraroa from New Zealand?
Psilocybe weraroa- the mother of all wood-loving Psilocybes. I like the way that sounds.
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inski said: We are lucky enough to see this evolution in progress with P. subsecotioides, I suspect it is a form of P. weraroa which is evolving into an agaricoid form due to a change in environment and substrate and also a lack of flightless birds for spore dispersal.
This gives me the biggest nerd-boner.
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Re: An Iconography of the New Zealand Psychoactive Fungi in the Genus Psilocybe. [Re: inski]
#18269705 - 05/15/13 04:22 PM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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I should also mention the texture of the pileus in P. weraroa, it is extremely tough and cartilaginous and it actually resists being cut by most blades, even razor blades, some force must be applied to start the cut, another method of spore dispersal could be with water, the species often fruits near the banks of small streams or creeks, in aged specimens the pileus becomes detached from the stipe and then can be washed down stream were it may end up in favourable locations for further growth.
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