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DavidReishi
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The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread Fall 2015 / Spring 2016 1
#22345908 - 10/07/15 02:54 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Greetings from the East Bay! Below is a photo of a single specimen of Psilocybe ovoideocystidiata that I found this morning. Right next to the water is cool, and some locations are irrigating despite the drought. On a little stretch of moist woodchips catching the shade of a row of water-side bushes, I found four or five different species of mushroom, including the ovoid pictured.
 P. ovoideocystidiata
At another spot about twenty feet away, but with different woodchips, I found another single ovoid with half the cap eaten; surrounding which, under the first layer of woodchips, I found luxuriant mycelium.
The 2015 Bay Area mushroom hunting season has officially begun, ladies and gentlemen!
Edited by Alan Rockefeller (03/16/16 06:01 PM)
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: DavidReishi]
#22345943 - 10/07/15 03:00 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Awe man, crazy coincidence/synchronicity too....
I really only come into this forum during the active season, I came here for the first time since last spring to see if anyone in the bay area has found some early season fruits.
....and I did so literally seconds after you created this thread.
'Tis about to be the season...the mushrooms have already returned to my dreams, as I've been having dreams about finding patches lately (a common theme of my dreams during this time of year)
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: openmind]
#22348006 - 10/07/15 10:46 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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The current season promises to be interesting. Record breaking drought, along with probably record breaking lack of irrigation, and then we're expecting Bruce Lee to come and really wet things up. Wherever I found moist woodchips today, I found many full-sized snails pacing back and forth for first dibs. Yikes!
Edited by DavidReishi (10/07/15 11:42 PM)
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: DavidReishi]
#22348025 - 10/07/15 10:52 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'm going to hopefuly go to the bay area later this month I will keep my eyes open
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: aykaye47]
#22348061 - 10/07/15 11:05 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'll be making several trips to the bay this season to visit my family and friends in the east bay
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: DavidReishi]
#22350280 - 10/08/15 02:09 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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DavidReishi said: The current season promises to be interesting. Record breaking drought, along with probably record breaking lack of irrigation, and then we're expecting Bruce Lee to come and really wet things up....
I've been thinking the same thing ...I'm not in the bay or along the coast, I'm about 95 miles inland from the coast. It's already hot and dry out here throughout the summer without a drought in place. Only patches I've found out here are within irrigated areas and since there's been major cutbacks on what days and how much people/business can irrigate, I'm curious to see how well the patches have held up through this hot and abnormally dry stretch.
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: openmind]
#22352511 - 10/08/15 11:24 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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What you found there applied here too. If I remember correctly, everything last year, even at the height of the rains, was found in irrigated areas. About how the spots have held up with the decreased irrigation, curious is an understatement.
This morning I visited a few spots from last year and was happy to see them having just received irrigation...though of course I couldn't tell how moist they've been kept. I also hunted some new areas, all within a mile from the water. Virtually everything was bone dry. At one of the exceptions, interestingly, I found zero fungal activity besides half a dozen widely dispersed Basket Stinkhorns.
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: DavidReishi]
#22352750 - 10/09/15 12:10 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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It has begun! Finally!
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: Rebelutionsssss]
#22352785 - 10/09/15 12:21 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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you should pick that ovoid and take a pic with a newspaper or something with the date on it and the ovoid.
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: Silky_Johnson]
#22365372 - 10/11/15 08:34 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Silky_Johnson said: you should pick that ovoid and take a pic with a newspaper or something with the date on it and the ovoid.
Lol, I don't think ovoids in October are that unlikely...well maybe because of the drought. Of my first three finds last year, which occurred at the end of Oct and the first week of November, two were ovoids. Here's a shot of the other ovoid from a few days ago...the spot is actually one of last year's ovoid spots.
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: DavidReishi]
#22366459 - 10/12/15 01:20 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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DavidReishi said:
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Silky_Johnson said: you should pick that ovoid and take a pic with a newspaper or something with the date on it and the ovoid.
Lol, I don't think ovoids in October are that unlikely...well maybe because of the drought. Of my first three finds last year, which occurred at the end of Oct and the first week of November, two were ovoids. Here's a shot of the other ovoid from a few days ago...the spot is actually one of last year's ovoid spots.
 P. ovoideocystidiata
its possible, i'd just like to see ya prove it. im a little skeptical.
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: Silky_Johnson]
#22366834 - 10/12/15 06:33 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Sorry bro, you'll need to take that nonsense somewhere else. It has no place on this thread or these forums.
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: DavidReishi]
#22367269 - 10/12/15 09:26 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Don't take things so personally bud, he's are just trying to confirm given that it's a very small mushroom and it's out of season. It would be good to have a shot of the gills or spore print or larger specimen to confirm.
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: Rebirtha]
#22367353 - 10/12/15 09:49 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Rebirtha said: Don't take things so personally bud, he's are just trying to confirm given that it's a very small mushroom and it's out of season. It would be good to have a shot of the gills or spore print or larger specimen to confirm.
Closer shots, gill shots, etc., is understandable. What Silky_Johnson wants is the ovoid pictured next to a newspaper to prove the date the picture was taken. That's doing nothing but casting doubt on my integrity. And that has no place here. Have evidence of dishonesty? Maybe that'd be different.
Also, ovoids aren't exactly out of season here. By this time last year +three weeks, I had stumbled upon ovoids twice.
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: DavidReishi]
#22368953 - 10/12/15 04:00 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Folks! If you're in the Bay area, it's time to start hunting! Look what I found at two different East Bay locations this morning!!!
 
For first-time hunters, these mushrooms are Leratiomyces ceres and are regarded as the best "indicator species" for wood-loving Psilocybes. That is to say, they "indicate" that you're looking in the right habitat for Psilocybes, and they're often found in the vicinity of the latter.
Seriously folks, what's the alternative...wait for rain? Didn't you hear? In the Bay area brown is the new green.
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: DavidReishi]
#22369046 - 10/12/15 04:19 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Honestly, that doesn't look like any ovoid I've ever seen, and I've seen A LOT. Koods was also skeptical of it and he's quite up to date on ovoids. Do you have a spore print picture of it or a picture of bruising? Not calling your integrity into question, I just doubt that's an ovoid.
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: Mr Piggy]
#22369525 - 10/12/15 05:39 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Have you seen a lot of ovoids from the Bay area, California? Because they can take a wide variety of forms here, as I'll show you in a sec. About the ovoid pictured in the first post, I decided not to pick it but to leave it be, something I obviously regret now.
To my eyes, and I looked closely at both for several minutes, the mushroom was identical to the mushroom twenty feet away that I mentioned in the post, a photo of which I provide below:

Now look closely at the stem in the above photo. Do you see the distinct blue bruising? As a matter of fact, there can be no doubt that the mushroom in this photo is an ovoid, as it's a known spot from last year, specimens of which were IDed by a T.I. (I believed at the time that they were cyans.) Here's a couple shots of larger mushrooms at the spot last year:
 
Finally, below are few more ovoid shots from last year to show how different they can look in the Bay area:
 
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: DavidReishi]
#22369553 - 10/12/15 05:46 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Are you sure those aren't P. stuntzii?
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maynardjameskeenan said: Are you sure those aren't P. stuntzii?
Which pic? I don't think stuntzii grow in the Bay area.
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That was my reaction too. I did notice the bluing in your first two pics of the pin, it just didn't look like an ovoid to me, possibly another psilocybe. Stunzii have been found in Santa Cruz before though, so its not out of the question.
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