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Jessican55
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please help id :-)
#18872971 - 09/21/13 04:43 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Ihave have done a lot of research, and I am fairly certain that I have identified these, As liberty caps, but would like more opinions. I am just trying to be safe, before eating something. These are everywhere!
Habitat: Where does it grow? Eg. woods, pasture, state, province, country, altitude, etc. What does it grow on? Eg. soil, dung, wood (dead, living, what kind of wood?), etc. In the woods, mainly under pine trees, in moss, found in Colorado mountains. Very high altitude, near a river. Gills: Color, attached/not, gills/pores, etc. Not attached, some brownish, most grey blue
stem: Length, diameter, color, texture, hollow/solid, thin/thick, etc. Long, skinny stem, I Think they are hollow, but they are very smallI, so it's hard to tell : Diameter, color, texture, conical/spherical, convex/concave, etc. Caps are mainly conical or umbonate, very small, largest are not much more add than a centimeter
Spore print color: Very important! Most have rusty purplish Brown, and variations of that
Bruising: Color that the mushroom bruises, if any. Several exhibit bluish bruising on the stems and edges of caps
Other information: Scent of the mushroom, anything else you think is important, large close-up pictures showing stem, cap and gills.
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ambc
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First of all they are Absolutely not Psilocybe semilanceata (Liberty caps), so DO NOT EAT THEM.
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Re: please help id :-) [Re: ambc]
#18873047 - 09/21/13 05:01 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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ambc said: First of all they are Absolutely not Psilocybe semilanceata (Liberty caps), so DO NOT EAT THEM.
I agree definitely not liberty caps.
Most likely a Panaeolus sp.
Edit: They are not a Panaeolus sp. if the spore prints are not Black. Could we get pics of the bluish bruising at the bottom of stem/round the caps?
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ambc
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Re: please help id :-) [Re: ambc]
#18873048 - 09/21/13 05:01 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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They are very interesting specimens though that I cannot ID from the photo, I would like you to try to get close up pictures of the gills, the cap and the stem, take these pictures of only one or two of them for these pictures. Also try to get a photo of the bluing that you see. Oh, and photos of the spore prints.
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NGH
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Re: please help id :-) [Re: ambc]
#18873094 - 09/21/13 05:14 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Are you in the part of CO that just had the major flooding?
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ambc
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Re: please help id :-) [Re: ambc]
#18873112 - 09/21/13 05:19 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Most likely a Panaeolus sp.
Not if the spore prints look like he says, also the habitat is wrong for both Panaeolus and Liberty caps. It also does look like there may be some bluing on some of those. There are no Psilocybes known to be common in Colorado.
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Jessican55
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Re: please help id :-) [Re: ambc]
#18873115 - 09/21/13 05:20 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Can you please explain why not, and what you think they are? Also, these are just the most blue grey, most were mainly Brown, and all of them have radial grooves. Most of them were hidden under tall grass or bushes, on moss under pine tree.
My apologies for the picture, btw.
Yes, we are very close to the floods have had alot of rain all summer. Many mycology clubs come to the mountains, because not alot of people know that they thrive here.
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Jessican55
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I will take some close ups
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Re: please help id :-) [Re: ambc]
#18873129 - 09/21/13 05:24 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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ambc said:
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Most likely a Panaeolus sp.
Not if the spore prints look like he says, also the habitat is wrong for both Panaeolus and Liberty caps. It also does look like there may be some bluing on some of those. There are no Psilocybes known to be common in Colorado.
I know I realized shortly after putting that 
The blue bruising would make things interesting
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NGH
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I have hunted from Boulder to Estes Park area, very awesome place. It's hard to believe how much damage the floods did, especially in the Lyons area. I have driven through there on many occasions just for the scenery.
I would imagine there will be all sorts of mushrooms out this fall due to the flooding.
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Jessican55
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Re: please help id :-) [Re: NGH]
#18873306 - 09/21/13 06:33 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Here are some close up pictures of the mushrooms. I can't get a good picture of the spore print, so I am making a new one, at the moment. I have included some of the more bluish ones, and some of the Brown ones. I am near the Estes park area
Some of the more bluish ones, acc couple of Brown ones, and some teeny tiny ones that are very blue.
Sorry,again, about the quality of my camera
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Gravija
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Very interesting. Can you borrow a camera and take some focused pictures? Maybe stick some in the fridge do you can photograph them again tomorrow? I'm not really seeing any blue. I do see a couple that look like they are bruising very darkly.
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Jessican55
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Re: please help id :-) [Re: Gravija]
#18873475 - 09/21/13 07:22 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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For some reason, the blue shows up as dark grey on my camera. Iwill try to get better pictures soon.
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Use the on your camera to get a more clear shot.
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Jessican55
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Re: please help id :-) [Re: Ganzig]
#18874118 - 09/21/13 10:26 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I don't have that setting, unfortunate. I only have a camera phone. What are people's opinions on what is here?
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ambc
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Re: please help id :-) [Re: Gravija]
#18875794 - 09/22/13 12:51 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Jessican55 said: I don't have that setting, unfortunate. I only have a camera phone. What are people's opinions on what is here?
It's really hard to say, that's why we keep asking for better pictures. If you say there are variations of the color of the spore print you probably have more than one species. Also I don't think I've ever heard of a spore print being described as both purple AND rusty brown, usually they would be one or the other, which also makes me think you might have more than one type.
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Gravija said: Very interesting. Can you borrow a camera and take some focused pictures? Maybe stick some in the fridge do you can photograph them again tomorrow? I'm not really seeing any blue. I do see a couple that look like they are bruising very darkly.
It kind of looks like they are staining bluish on my screen but it isn't clear that it's blue or just dark. If you could borrow a friends camera or even have a friend take pictures if they don't want to loan out the camera it would be awesome. Especially so we could get a look at the spore prints, allowing us to determine if these are all the same. If they turned out to be something active it would make alot of people from Colorado very happy.
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Jessican55 said: I don't have that setting, unfortunate. I only have a camera phone. What are people's opinions on what is here?
Most camera phones have macro under settings.
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Please post pictures of the spore prints.
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