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ID Request - Psilocybe species - WA Coast
    #19131699 - 11/13/13 03:08 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Habitat: Dune grasses with ocean-deposited wood debris commonly associated with Psilocybe azurescens.  Growing sympatrically with P. azurescens.

Gills: Light brown, numerous, attached.

Stem: Slender, slightly fusiform in one individual, whitish in younger individuals becoming more brown with age. Bluing at base where mycelium joins to fruiting body.  Also bluing with physical contact at any point on stem.

Cap: Unusually nipple-like with a pronounced, dark tip.  Brown like cooked onion while still on the moist side, not caramel-colored like P. azurescens, and becoming a more tired sandy-brown with age and dryness.  Faint blue-black striations evident in lower 1/3 until the margin.  Margin is often bluish-black, appearing bruised.  The younger specimens maintain heavily recurved, concave bell-like caps unlike P. azurescens whose caps widen and become broad with age.  Eldest specimen maintains a concave shape.  Pins unseen.

Spore print color: Dark purplish-brown.

Bruising: Stem and cap bruise blue and mycelium even has a blue tint in spots.

Location: Pacific Northwest, SW Washington Coast, USA.

Habitat:
Untouched specimen:


Tried to focus on the stem before handling:


The nipple:


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Re: ID Request - Psilocybe species - WA Coast [Re: psilodendron]
    #19131719 - 11/13/13 03:13 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Psilocybe azurescens is likely.
They just look weird.


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Re: ID Request - Psilocybe species - WA Coast [Re: maynardjameskeenan]
    #19131742 - 11/13/13 03:16 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Psilocybe azurescens is likely.
They just look weird.




They sure do!  Is there much variation in the species?  For all my wanderings in this part of the state, the P. azurescens are fairly uniform in my observations.  This was the first oddity I've found.


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Re: ID Request - Psilocybe species - WA Coast [Re: psilodendron]
    #19131864 - 11/13/13 03:43 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Psilocybe azurescens

Yes, they look weird but that is not uncommon.


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Re: ID Request - Psilocybe species - WA Coast [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
    #19132422 - 11/13/13 06:03 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

:trippinbawelz:

You guys know what I'm gonna say....


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Re: ID Request - Psilocybe species - WA Coast [Re: BittrBuffalo]
    #19132485 - 11/13/13 06:15 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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BittrBuffalo said:
:trippinbawelz:

You guys know what I'm gonna say....



No, I have no idea what you are going to say.
Enlighten us?


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Re: ID Request - Psilocybe species - WA Coast [Re: maynardjameskeenan]
    #19132771 - 11/13/13 07:13 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Very INTERESTING!!  For lack of any other guess, I suppose P. azurescens.  Do you have a microscope OP?


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Re: ID Request - Psilocybe species - WA Coast [Re: jet li]
    #19132982 - 11/13/13 07:45 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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jet li said:
Very INTERESTING!!  For lack of any other guess, I suppose P. azurescens.  Do you have a microscope OP?





Well, not handy, but I'm sure I could find one to utilize.

Not to disregard those who feel it's just P. azurescens, but I have a feeling it's something else, even perhaps a subspecies.  The P. azurescens in this part of Washington all fall into a similar, almost replicated morphology.  This group, although growing feet from other P. azurescens, doesn't "fit" IMO.  Granted, there isn't much research, mycologically, on the morphology of P. azurescens (at least that I've been able to find), but what I have found out there, literature-wise, doesn't portray this form as an example or even mention much for deviation from the "standard" form (type specimen).
I do know species can change based on the medium they grow in/upon, but this specimen was growing in the same, typical dune grass, which begs the question:  Why would a variation occur in a typical medium?
In the plant world, a species can be found existing over a wide range, upon different substrates (granite vs. cipolin) and exhibit some differences like shorter flowers, bigger thorns, etc., but in the end, you still know that Acacia greggii is Acacia greggii.

I am a botanist well before I am a mycologist and I am still learning the laws of this realm.  If there is literature out there, beyond the well known and easily accessed, please let me know.  I am a sponge for data!

In the end, I've maintained a spore sample and plan to research further. 

Thanks to all who have taken the time to respond!  :smile:


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Re: ID Request - Psilocybe species - WA Coast [Re: psilodendron]
    #19133023 - 11/13/13 07:53 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

The more I look at it, the more I agree with P. azurescens, but yeah cool morphology if nothing else. :smile:


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Re: ID Request - Psilocybe species - WA Coast [Re: psilodendron]
    #19133510 - 11/13/13 09:37 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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I am a botanist well before I am a mycologist and I am still learning the laws of this realm.  If there is literature out there, beyond the well known and easily accessed, please let me know.  I am a sponge for data!





The literature is not going to be much help without microscopic information, however I am pretty sure the microscopy would match P. cyanescens/azurescens/allenii/subaeruginosa. 

DNA sequences would help, as we have good sequences for all 4 taxa in the cyanescens complex.  Particularly the ITS gene.

The fact that you found it so close to P. azurescens means that it is almost certainly that species though, with unusual morphology.  It looks like a classic P. azurescens with the umbo, and the only thing is the cap did not expand normally.    Things like that happen sometimes.

If you found it farther away from other Psilocybe species, the chance that it is something else would be higher.



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Re: ID Request - Psilocybe species - WA Coast [Re: psilodendron]
    #19133867 - 11/13/13 11:03 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Wow!  Great post, interesting find.

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psilodendron said:Growing sympatrically with P. azurescens.




Botanist or no, way to use "sympatrically"!  I knew there had to be a word for that.


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Re: ID Request - Psilocybe species - WA Coast [Re: Coen]
    #19133879 - 11/13/13 11:07 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

azzies for sure


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Re: ID Request - Psilocybe species - WA Coast [Re: maynardjameskeenan]
    #19134332 - 11/14/13 01:23 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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maynardjameskeenan said:
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BittrBuffalo said:
:trippinbawelz:

You guys know what I'm gonna say....



No, I have no idea what you are going to say.
Enlighten us?




Print that bitch, sonnn! :lol:


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Re: ID Request - Psilocybe species - WA Coast [Re: BittrBuffalo]
    #19134564 - 11/14/13 02:38 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

This is my favorite thread this week. Very interesting...it's funny how there can be morphological changes (mutants?) like this that make us question our root understanding of things. Why does it look so funny?  It happens sometimes.


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Re: ID Request - Psilocybe species - WA Coast [Re: lemonjello]
    #19135156 - 11/14/13 08:38 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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This is my favorite thread this week. Very interesting...it's funny how there can be morphological changes (mutants?) like this that make us question our root understanding of things. Why does it look so funny?  It happens sometimes.




mutants just happen.  environmental factors play a role as well as many other things. I had a neat mutant when I tried my hands at growing cubensis. It was one mushroom growing off the cap of another mushroom.


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Re: ID Request - Psilocybe species - WA Coast [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
    #19135820 - 11/14/13 11:37 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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psilodendron said:
I am a botanist well before I am a mycologist and I am still learning the laws of this realm.  If there is literature out there, beyond the well known and easily accessed, please let me know.  I am a sponge for data!





The literature is not going to be much help without microscopic information, however I am pretty sure the microscopy would match P. cyanescens/azurescens/allenii/subaeruginosa. 

DNA sequences would help, as we have good sequences for all 4 taxa in the cyanescens complex.  Particularly the ITS gene.

The fact that you found it so close to P. azurescens means that it is almost certainly that species though, with unusual morphology.  It looks like a classic P. azurescens with the umbo, and the only thing is the cap did not expand normally.    Things like that happen sometimes.

If you found it farther away from other Psilocybe species, the chance that it is something else would be higher.






Thanks, Alan!

So, do cyanescens/azurescens/allenii/subaeruginosa constitute a "tribe" within the genus?  In plants, there are groups of species that maintain similar characteristics and it's safe to say they evolved from a common ancestor.  These groups are sometimes called "tribes" or "complexes."

Would it be worth sending a sample specimen/spore print to an institution of study?  (I'm probably going overboard).

Would this type possibly come true from the spores, or could they potentially generate a typical P. azurescens? 

For humor's sake, if it is a clonotype that can be stabilized, a cultivar name may be in order...P. azurescens 'Washington's Witch's Tit' 

Hmmmmm....

:grin:


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Re: ID Request - Psilocybe species - WA Coast [Re: psilodendron]
    #19135902 - 11/14/13 11:58 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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So, do cyanescens/azurescens/allenii/subaeruginosa constitute a "tribe" within the genus?  In plants, there are groups of species that maintain similar characteristics and it's safe to say they evolved from a common ancestor.  These groups are sometimes called "tribes" or "complexes."




Yes they form a tight clade

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clade

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Would it be worth sending a sample specimen/spore print to an institution of study?  (I'm probably going overboard).




Yes.

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Would this type possibly come true from the spores, or could they potentially generate a typical P. azurescens?


 

Probably they would make typical azurescens, but it's worth investigating.

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For humor's sake, if it is a clonotype that can be stabilized, a cultivar name may be in order...P. azurescens 'Washington's Witch's Tit'


 

That would be interesting to know.


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Re: ID Request - Psilocybe species - WA Coast [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
    #19138627 - 11/14/13 09:47 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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psilodendron said:

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For humor's sake, if it is a clonotype that can be stabilized, a cultivar name may be in order...P. azurescens 'Washington's Witch's Tit'


 

That would be interesting to know.



Your response to that:lmafo:


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Re: ID Request - Psilocybe species - WA Coast [Re: Joust]
    #19139343 - 11/15/13 12:38 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

definately an awesome looking psilocybe nice find ! looks like an azzy and cyan had a baby :laugh:


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