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Possible laughing Gyms but not on wood? Could that happen?
    #18872914 - 09/21/13 04:32 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Hi everyone,

I'm in Central Alabama and we had a good rain last night. Wanting to try my luck with some Psilocybe Cubensis mushrooms, I head out to a cow pasture.  Wouldn't you know it, I arrive too early, after walking about a mile, and I see just some very tiny little brown mushrooms barely peaking out of the patties and start to lose hope.

That's when I see these rather large mushrooms but, not in cow manure and not on wood either.  They were about 3 feet from a tree stump but, not growing on actual wood. I even dug my finger down pretty deep to make sure there wasn't any wood below. 

Unfortunately, I lost my camera/phone, and can't provide any blurry pix like I used to. :-(

I was hoping maybe they were laughing Gyms. They aren't bright yellow like you read about them being and look more like this:



They have white gills,

hollow stems,

smell pleasant and earthy,

caps are slimy to the touch,

they are slightly darker in the center and get lighter towards the edges like the one in the photo,

they have rings and were growing in clusters,

one of the large ones measured 6 inches across and was slightly curving upwards in places, no warts, the younger ones have rounded under caps.


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Re: Possible laughing Gyms but not on wood? Could that happen? [Re: Altie]
    #18873003 - 09/21/13 04:50 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

From your description they were probably an Armillaria sp. if they have whitish gills. They absolutely aren't a Gymnopilus.


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Re: Possible laughing Gyms but not on wood? Could that happen? [Re: ambc]
    #18873083 - 09/21/13 05:11 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

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ambc said:
From your description they were probably an Armillaria sp. if they have whitish gills. They absolutely aren't a Gymnopilus.




Thanks a lot, ambc.  It amazes me how y'all can almost always identify the mushrooms being asked about, even without a photo.

They look just like this image, which I found after you identified it.

Armillaria mellea



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