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Amanita virosa
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C. Militaris clone pinning
#19041623 - 10/27/13 04:43 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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My partner chris is a "finder". He sees shit no one else does. Maybe cuz he is cherokee. He has found three of these ..C Militaris fruits this year in the blue ridge. Species unknown. He cloned the one pictured and it is now pinning on dog food agar. It grows a bit, stalls, pins, grows a bit more. Thought y'all might like to see it. It has that classic cottony Myc. Wonder if J Holiday would like a copy?

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Eddeee
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That is Ophiocoryceps sphecocephala. Very common here this year, here is a link for more info I find them all the time http://mushroomobserver.org/142283?q=1ac5T
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Re: C. Militaris clone pinning [Re: Eddeee]
#19041754 - 10/27/13 05:24 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Eddeee said: That is Ophiocoryceps sphecocephala. Very common here this year, here is a link for more info I find them all the time http://mushroomobserver.org/142283?q=1ac5T
That looks like it. Two of them were fruiting off of bumblebees. A third one he found looks like a different species. Different color fruiting body almost reddish ( and a different shape almost clavate) and fruiting on a wood beetle larvae. I wonder how many clones of this species exist.
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drake89
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Amanita virosa
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Re: C. Militaris clone pinning [Re: drake89]
#19047672 - 10/28/13 06:05 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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drake89 said: !!!!
Would you like one drake? Cuz I will sure send you one if you would like one. Gonna cut it up soon. Don't be bashful.
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Eddeee
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This fungus fascinates me. Since I have discovered it on my property like all over the place I've been some what curious as to the life cycle. I usually find them on the common yellow jacket Fruiting. I suspect there might be a secondary host such as caterpillars or even other plant life. I have watch caterpillar's munch on the fruiting bodies. I have tried to inoculated hornets nest.. You have this growing on dog food Agar or your Friend does? The fact it can be grown on a medioum might suport the secondary host Idea. He's Cherokee Im Pomo.Us ingins We know how to find shit
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Re: C. Militaris clone pinning [Re: Eddeee]
#19048434 - 10/28/13 07:58 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Eddeee said: This fungus fascinates me. Since I have discovered it on my property like all over the place I've been some what curious as to the life cycle. I usually find them on the common yellow jacket Fruiting. I suspect there might be a secondary host such as caterpillars or even other plant life. I have watch caterpillar's munch on the fruiting bodies. I have tried to inoculated hornets nest.. You have this growing on dog food Agar or your Friend does? The fact it can be grown on a medioum might suport the secondary host Idea. He's Cherokee Im Pomo.Us ingins We know how to find shit
How fucking funny. Your native too. You say you find them all the time thats what he says too i dint know of a single other person that has eveR found one around here. We grow all our strains on DFA. Pretty much any fungus will grow on it. Cherokee Chris is my biz partner.
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What type of Dog food do you use? Whats the protien content. Never herd of this befor back when I grew stuff PDA is what I used. So you boil the dog food with the PDA and Mix it. Sorry if I sound ignorant in this matter. Iv only grown Oysters and Shitaki oh ya and I got some good fruits of Hen of the woods from a downed oak I inoculated two years ago.
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Re: C. Militaris clone pinning [Re: Eddeee] 1
#19049034 - 10/28/13 09:31 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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i grow on fancy dog food, vegeterian, don't remember the brand. if you want some I can mail you some, as I don't have a dog 
i'm just not trying to get oysters or anything accustom to eating meat, ya know!
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Re: C. Militaris clone pinning [Re: Eddeee]
#19050022 - 10/29/13 01:16 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Eddeee said: What type of Dog food do you use? Whats the protien content. Never herd of this befor back when I grew stuff PDA is what I used. So you boil the dog food with the PDA and Mix it. Sorry if I sound ignorant in this matter. Iv only grown Oysters and Shitaki oh ya and I got some good fruits of Hen of the woods from a downed oak I inoculated two years ago.
Any all natural dog food will work. 1:1 pulverized dog food to agar by weight. Brand is not too important. But cannot have artificial preservatives. Mixed tocopherols (vit e) is fine. In fact my theory is that higher fungi like the oils in it and that's why it works so well.
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Is the of food you guys r using for agar organic?
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Re: C. Militaris clone pinning [Re: Aleon]
#19052816 - 10/29/13 04:39 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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No because the only organic ones I gave ever found are grain free. Been scared to try without grain. Right now we are using blue buffalo.
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liamtheloser
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I find these all the time too, but I'm not native. I just thought they were weird club fungus until I pulled one out of the leaves and saw a Beetle cocooned in mycelium.
I'm gonna save my next one and try to clone it, but they're usually so thin I have no idea how to cut a piece of the inside out. Any ideas on getting a clean clone?
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A lot of patience and a brand new scalpel blade. It wasn't that bad.
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Cool stuff. Any ideas if this species would be medicinally useful?
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Re: C. Militaris clone pinning [Re: Forrester]
#19056502 - 10/30/13 07:46 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Forrester said: Cool stuff. Any ideas if this species would be medicinally useful?
No idea. But it grows out cool. Will post more pix later.
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Keeping apprised of this thread, looking forward to those pics AV
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