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Tofurky
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: DavidReishi]
#22699816 - 12/25/15 09:12 PM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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yeah, well you know, beggers can't be choosers...
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: DavidReishi]
#22699828 - 12/25/15 09:16 PM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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Happy Hunting everyone!!!
I'm still a rookie at ID's but are these Cyans?
Found them in my backyard, I've found a few diff species but none are actives but I stumbled upon these and was wondering what you all had to say about them...?

Thank you in advance gentlemen and happy holidays!
droope
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: droope]
#22699835 - 12/25/15 09:19 PM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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negative on the cyans. better luck next time man.
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droope
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: Silky_Johnson]
#22699878 - 12/25/15 09:33 PM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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Aghhhhh soooo frustrating!
I've found maybe 7-8 diff species in my yard alone and none have been actives....
I saw this orange lil guy today too....

Thank you for the help.
droope
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: droope]
#22699943 - 12/25/15 09:53 PM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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12/25/15 Pittsburg. Psilocybe allenii
merry Christmas shroom fam
I knew I should have checked out this area sooner.



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DavidReishi
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: DavidReishi]
#22700039 - 12/25/15 10:22 PM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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Today's trip southward:
1) 
P. cyanescens and P. allenii. A pre-trip stop at two of last season's finds...being an update to pics posted last Sunday.
2) 
P. allenii. A small new find in Hayward. The black object coming into the image at the top right is a bicycle parking rack.
3) 
P. allenii. From two new finds in Union City at the same vast complex. Almost all the fruits were ruined by the wonderful dry wind-then-rain just as at the Hayward find above.
4) 
P. allenii and P. cyanescens. Darkness set in before arriving at this known allenii spot in Fremont which I've been waiting on to fruit. Besides a few specimens as seen in the first pic the patch still ain't fruiting...but there's lots of healthy mycelium as seen in the second pic, the biological function of which seems to be nothing other than to test my patience. The third pic shows apparently the same situation going on with a new cyan find at the same general location.
Bonus) Some non-active finds from the trip:
 Clitocybe nuda
 Trametes versicolor
 Pisolithus arrhizus
Edited by DavidReishi (12/25/15 11:00 PM)
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DavidReishi
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: droope]
#22700151 - 12/25/15 10:59 PM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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droope said: I saw this orange lil guy today too....

Tubaria
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mrmallis
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: DavidReishi]
#22700337 - 12/26/15 12:05 AM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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Would it be best to cut off the rotting areas and discard the totally rotted mushrooms? Are mushrooms in these conditions edible?
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DavidReishi
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: mrmallis]
#22700365 - 12/26/15 12:18 AM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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Are you asking hypothetically? Because if you're referring to your allenii find from today, i.e.,...

...none of those are rotting.
Hypothetically speaking, on the other hand, I'd cut off any black rotting areas...though once completely dried they'd probably cause no harm.
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: mrmallis]
#22700381 - 12/26/15 12:25 AM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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mrmallis said: Would it be best to cut off the rotting areas and discard the totally rotted mushrooms? Are mushrooms in these conditions edible?
Definitely cut off the rotted spots and discard the totally rotten ones, if you have any. They will mess up your stomach, which will fuck up your trip. An alternative to discarding the rotten spots is to make a slurry out of the spores, bits of mushrooms and water. You can then spread the love everywhere. And DR, I think he does have some questionable ones. They are pretty but I don't eat them when they get that banged up.
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: SkagitHunter]
#22700456 - 12/26/15 12:56 AM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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SkagitHunter said: And DR, I think he does have some questionable ones. They are pretty but I don't eat them when they get that banged up.
I think an easy way to tell is by fan-drying 'em. First of all, wipe the caps with a moist paper towel or in water with your fingers, since much of that dark color may be spores, then place 'em in front of a fan to dry. If the caps turn yellow, orange, tan, or gold then they're fine...if they turn black then there's a rot issue.
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mrmallis
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: DavidReishi]
#22700557 - 12/26/15 02:22 AM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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Some of the first cyans are very clean and nearly dry at this point. Me and my friends are still a little scared to eat them considering most of them didn't even consider the fact they grow around town and not on cow patties. I've already got my slurry bag of the nasties separated but I was wondering if it would be too late in the season for mycelium to thrive in mid winter conditions? And should I specifically spread it onto that red decorative bark that seems to do really well or in more natural conditions such as leafgrass\treebarktwig areas? And would cutting the gills off of big caps that look a little ugly be a good way to save the shroom meat and stem? Please let me know if I am teetering on the edge of breaking fourm rules haha.
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: mrmallis]
#22700728 - 12/26/15 05:09 AM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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mrmallis said: Me and my friends are still a little scared to eat them considering most of them didn't even consider the fact they grow around town and not on cow patties.
I'm not sure I understand this. Why would you prefer they grow on shit in stead of wood?
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: Ran-D]
#22700761 - 12/26/15 06:18 AM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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Where do you think the term Holy Shit came from? (Bill Hicks) My friends didn't know about woodlovers and their fear was contagious lol
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: Ran-D]
#22701478 - 12/26/15 12:41 PM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'm not sure I understand this. Why would you prefer they grow on shit in stead of wood? 
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: NothingsChanged]
#22702712 - 12/26/15 06:54 PM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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Went out searching in SF today and after 3 hours of very few mushrooms of any kind, I was ready to give up, and I found this little patch just as I decided to stop looking and walk home.
Some were a lot more tan and light brown than what I've seen before. Once I got home, most had some bruising around th cap. There were a few I was not sure of, so I posted a separate ID request with close ups of those.
Here are the ones I Identified as Cyans:

Some nasties I left behind:

Some better looking ones, but very tan:

The haul:


Edited by diamond (12/26/15 06:57 PM)
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drmaturin
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: diamond]
#22702770 - 12/26/15 07:12 PM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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Decades past, I made expeditions of hundreds or thousands of miles, to the Northwest and Southeast corners of the US in pursuit of actives. Sometimes successful, sometimes not. Then family, kids, other enthusiasms.
I was vaguely aware that actives were being widely found in the Bay Area (for years, my picture had been that things really only got interesting north of Arcata.) And a friend had treated me to a couple of P. Allenii years ago (before Allenii was described; he called them Cyanofriscosa). But imagine my surprise when in December of last year I noticed a pretty little mushroom going in the worst possible place: 10 feet from the entrance of my office building, a high traffic area with a security desk through the window, usually staffed 24/7, and coworkers all around, and all, presumably, oblivious to the magic so close at hand. It's the classic setting: wood-chip mulched landscaping, irrigated, with lots of low shrubbery. The funny irony is that I am constantly aware that there are shrooms right at everyone's feet as they walk this path, but as far as I can tell, nobody else is aware of their presence. And -hundreds- of people walk that path every work day. It's kind of surreal...
I surreptitiously snagged a couple of fruiting bodies on my way out that evening, when nobody else happened to be right there. Went home, saw blue bruising and a purple-brown spore print, looked at a lot of pictures and decided I'd found Ps. Allenii. I collected more the next day (having to employ some stealth; my employer is enlighten, but I don't want to push it :-) Feeling pretty confident of the ID, I risked a nibble, just one little mushroom. With 15-20 minutes, a familiar feeling of building energy, and I knew I'd found a Psilocybe!
I collected enough last year to have hight hopes for this year's season. (I will not complain about the weather after December last year...)
So, this year, indeed, the Allenii are back at work. What a fringe benefit! Here are some of these. from what I call locality #1:


Since then I've found two other patches.
#2 is a spread of wood chip mulch in a park area, with no plants in the immediate zone where the mushrooms are coming up. I believe it probably has also been getting irrigated.



#3 is wood chip much landscaping in an apartment complex. Likely we'll irrigated. I saw lots of other species fruiting, so something about the microclimate was conducive. Finally looked and saw the patch of the Right Ones. I collected a bunch, as much as I dared; I will likely not be able to resist going back to collect the rest, soon.

I would guess that #1 and #3 patches are Allanii, The morphology at #2 seems distinct from that of #1 and #3. #2 tends to have more waviness and flatter caps. The largest (most mature?) ones from #2 the most so. Some are quite hefty. They all seem quite active, and have a high degree of bluing on the stipe, even those which have not been touched.
This is my first posting. Discovering this site has been somewhat inspiring. Thanks to all you who have built it.
Edited by drmaturin (12/27/15 09:53 AM)
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DavidReishi
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: drmaturin]
#22703704 - 12/26/15 11:45 PM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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Known East Bay Spot Tour Day!
1) 
P. cyanescens. This patch found last season I discovered was fruiting only last Sunday...a progress shot of which I posted yesterday. A fair number of the fruits sustained slight injury from the dry wind-then-rain a few days ago, but being a particularly sturdy crop they held up quite well on the whole. About two dozen youngsters remain at the patch, which prior to leaving I doused with water and covered over with leaves.
2) 
P. allenii. This is another find from last year that I discovered was trying to fruit last Sunday (and an update of which I posted yesterday.) But before today I thought that just one fatty had popped up along with a couple smaller fruits. On today's more careful search, however, I found quite a few more! As I've mentioned before, this spot, which is really a composite of four or five separate patches, was one of my best producers last season. As for the overwhelming bulk of the spot, it seems to be waiting for still more rain.
3) 
P. allenii. This find from two and a half weeks ago hasn't yet figured out how to rest...every time I stop by I'm always finding more fruits. The middle pic shows a new find at a different part of the same location...found by my gf actually. The place is huge, and even many of the lawns appear to be planted over woodchips...I think with enough rain I might have on my hands an Allenii Wonderland.
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P. cyanescens. These half-dried and shrunken specimens belong to one of my Berkeley finds from the same day as the above. They represent the patch's second more or less failed attempt to grow a flush to maturity...due of course to the dry wind that's become such a mainstay of this year's season. I used to hate finding specimens in this condition, but now, after beholding too many in the worse condition of having black rotten edges, I barely mind at all... More please!
P.S. - Diamond and Drmaturin, nice work!
Edited by DavidReishi (12/27/15 10:04 AM)
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: DavidReishi]
#22703733 - 12/26/15 11:57 PM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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You've got insane hunters instincts.
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: WhyDidiDoThis]
#22703853 - 12/27/15 12:41 AM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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