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PEI, Canada - Stumbling Through a Field, What Did I Find?
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Greetings!

I hope, to whoever is reading, that this message finds you well and at peace!

I recently moved to PEI, Canada. A trusted friend and native P.E. Islander had loosely directed me toward an area where, some years ago, he and friends frequently picked an abundance of actives. However, he was never certain as to the species – as he informed me: “Don’t know for sure who told us, or when, but somebody once just pointed them out to us and we ate ‘em, and after the first experience we’d just pick them and eat them whenever we saw them growing there every year.”

Yeah, it’s kinda folky and funny but I suppose that’s at least part of the whole experience of hunting around – though I’ve consumed actives, I’ve never hand-picked them so I figured I’d keep my eyes open when roaming around…

Anyway, today I noticed mushrooms growing in the area my friend had pointed out.

It is a large grassy pasture, wide open, well fertilized, and very damp/muddy around its lowest points. We have had unseasonably cool weather for the last 3-4 days (especially cool in the evening), with much precipitation/humidity – importantly though, having passed this cool and humid period, yesterday was blistering hot and dry with much the same weather today.

The distribution of the mushrooms would be approximately 5 or 6 individually standing within a loosely estimated 10 foot grid – if that bears any significance.

Immediate appearance leads me to believe there are at least two species growing in the area, one I was able to collect in abundance and the other I collected only five.

Please refer to attached photos as to help my avoid stumbling over proper grammar and terms regarding mushroom anatomy – I’ll do my best and continue on in the meantime, since I may as well finish what I’ve started…

FIRST: The most abundant of the species possess conical caps that are pale brownish/burnt orange at the very tip, fading to cream around the rest of the cap (on a Tim Horton’s scale, I’d put the color at around a triple to quad-cream). 

The gills are of a rusty brownish orange color, similar to the color of the very cap tips only the gills are a darker shade.

None stood taller than around 10cm, cap to root – the tallest outlier being about 12cm. I believe the gills to be “free” – I suppose it is worth noting here that in the field, some of the same mushrooms were wetter and seemed to have started flattening out, or more accurately curling out and up (from the bottom edge of the cap). These were a darker muddy brown orange-ish color, and fell apart when I tried to pick them.

The stems are long, thin, and tend to be whitish or at least a shade lighter than the pale of the caps.

There is no real powerful scent to pick up on, more or less just the normal earthy smell when you hold it right up to your nose.

No particularly noticeable bruising.

SECOND: To reiterate, the second type of mushroom grew in the same area, though not in what I’d call any close proximity to the aforementioned more plentiful species. It has a flatter cap, slightly conical, convex even, though definitely distinct from and not remotely as conical as the first type.

They are a brown-silvery-grayish color on both cap and stem.

Notably they have thin circular striations of a pale color along the caps.
These also bear no particularly obvious scent.

No noticeable bruising.

All insight is much appreciated, though after my own analysis and research I think they're nothing to get excited about.

Thanks!

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Re: PEI, Canada - Stumbling Through a Field, What Did I Find? [Re: Draughtline]
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You've got Panaeolus/Panaeolina and Conocybe apala.

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Re: PEI, Canada - Stumbling Through a Field, What Did I Find? [Re: MidnightCity]
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Hey,

Thanks for the ID! I had my doubts after my own research and I'm happy you could help.

Cheers


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Re: PEI, Canada - Stumbling Through a Field, What Did I Find? [Re: Draughtline]
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Looks to me like Panaeolus foenisecii and something like Conocybe apala


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Re: PEI, Canada - Stumbling Through a Field, What Did I Find? [Re: Draughtline]
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Draughtline said:
Hey,

Thanks for the ID! I had my doubts after my own research and I'm happy you could help.

Cheers


You're welcome, keep looking! :hatsoff:

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