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heelsplitter


Registered: 12/27/13
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Re: Conocybe cyanopus in Maine!!! [Re: knarkkorven]
#22032574 - 08/02/15 09:38 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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knarkkorven said: Nice find!
The active pholiotinas seems to be hard to grow. You're lucky to have them in your (?) yard.
Thanks! Oh well. I have a spore print if I ever decide I want to try that but it'd probably be more useful for microscopy. It was growing where I work. I live really far away.
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stevo

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Re: Conocybe cyanopus in Maine!!! *DELETED* [Re: heelsplitter]
#22032714 - 08/02/15 10:14 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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domesticgnome

Registered: 04/22/11
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Re: Conocybe cyanopus in Maine!!! [Re: stevo]
#22032837 - 08/02/15 10:43 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Great find, congratulations
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Lucis
Nutritional Yeast

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Re: Pholiotina cyanopus in Maine!!! [Re: heelsplitter]
#22033330 - 08/02/15 12:40 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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bioassay must be performed, for science!
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heelsplitter


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Re: Pholiotina cyanopus in Maine!!! [Re: Lucis]
#22036956 - 08/03/15 10:23 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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stevo said: Im not sure which species of conocybe I have growing in my ovoid patch but I mention because it looks completely identical to verified finds of this species macroscopically. It is invasive. Its a mix of wood chips and grass. The only thing that prevents it from fruiting is smothering it with sand or an excessively deep substrate layer, and airflow seems to allow them to dominate. It started off as a small patch with conocybes around the edge and now it is a large psilocybe patch with conocybes at the edge. Never considered looking for bluing though. Not sure how this compares to your find. Cool find though.
Could be Conocybe tenera or something similar in your patch. I've found a lot of similar-looking Conocybes and/or Pholiotinas and often check for bluing and this is the first time I've found it.Quote:
Fennario said: bioassay must be performed, for science! 
Naw. I only have the one and I'm keeping it as a voucher specimen. These have already been bioassayed by someone else too AFAIK. I've still got the Copelandias I found last summer and haven't tried them yet. I'll get around to that at some point.
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heelsplitter


Registered: 12/27/13
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Re: Pholiotina cyanopus in Maine!!! [Re: heelsplitter]
#22255982 - 09/18/15 12:22 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I sent nomendubium a letter containing a gill fragment a while back and it just got returned to me a couple days ago, probably because of my terrible handwriting. I also recently ordered a microscope and most of my microscopy supplies have come in so I decided to give it a go myself. Here's a gill edge crush mounted in 5% KOH and methylene blue. This slide has been sitting around for about a day, so you can see some bacteria in it. I don't have a stage micrometer yet, so I can't really measure features, but the cheilocystidia are lageniform, so it's looking like this is probably P. cyanopus.
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nomendubium



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Re: Pholiotina cyanopus in Maine!!! [Re: heelsplitter]
#22278131 - 09/23/15 10:22 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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put a drop of blood on a slide undiluted. Take a picture. Get micam (a freeware program available at c/net). Adjust the size until all of the red blood cells fall between 6-8 um. I found this to be very accurate. Compared to my stage micrometer, I was only off by.02 um. If you add water to your blood, it causes the red blood cells to push saline out and they shrink, that is why you can't dilute it
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heelsplitter


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Re: Pholiotina cyanopus in Maine!!! [Re: nomendubium]
#22278151 - 09/23/15 10:27 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I just got a stage micrometer in the mail, so I'll be checking that out soon.
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