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D.little91
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they're here!
#22405708 - 10/19/15 09:36 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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For real finds of the fall! I think #1 is agaricus xanthodermus? Not sure a boy the deco one and the last is something crazy ads hen of the woods growing in a cemetary. So excited ano ano rains being here! Does any on know if psilocybe alenii is common in the monterey bay area?
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Edited by D.little91 (10/20/15 08:20 AM)
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DavidReishi
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No. 2 appears to be Leucoagaricus leucothites. No. 3 didn't have any reddish color along with that yellow?
I lived in Monterey for 1.5 years while my gf went to MIIS. I'm sure both allenii and cyans grow in Monterey. They've been found in Watsonville if I'm not mistaken. And of course there've been plenty of finds in Santa Cruz and San Jose. It couldn't hurt to hunt out some landscaping with irrigated woodchips and shade to find out...though it might be a bit early yet to find Psilocybes.
EDIT: I think they've been found in Salinas too.
Edited by DavidReishi (10/20/15 12:10 AM)
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relic
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D.little91 said: and the last is something crazy ads hen of the woods growing in a cemetary.
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not a hen. maybe a Laetiporus, but would have to be Laetiporus cincinnatus if growing on the ground and those have a white pore surface rather than the yellow of L. sulphurus. but IDK if they even grow out there and the colors are just a bit off.
maybe it is just super young, but really IDK so get clarification from someone more versed with CA fungi. however; it is not a G. frondosa aka hen of the woods.
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Ran-D



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DavidReishi said: No. 2 appears to be Leucoagaricus leucothites.
I'd call it Leucoagaricus barsii.
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relic said: not a hen. maybe a Laetiporus, but would have to be Laetiporus cincinnatus if growing on the ground and those have a white pore surface rather than the yellow of L. sulphurus. but IDK if they even grow out there and the colors are just a bit off.
In California the 2 species we get are L. gilbertsonii (on hardwoods) and L. conifericola (on conifers).
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D.little91 said: Does any on know if psilocybe alenii is common in the monterey bay area?
I would assume so.
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D.little91
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Re: there here! [Re: Ran-D]
#22407675 - 10/20/15 08:19 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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#3 did have a bit of a reddish tint to some areas it looked like it was where it was starting to decompose a bit.
By the way I'm not a dumbass and know the difference between they're and there I just have a lot of trouble typing on my phone.
I'm edumacated....
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Isn't A. xanthodermus meant to have rapid and marked yellow staining? I can't really tell from the picture. Then again, I'm an easterner, so what do I know? None of these species show up in my stomping grounds.
That Laetiporus is pretty wild.
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Ran-D



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Now that I look again and see the Eucalpytus debris I assume it is Laetiporus gilbertsonii.
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DavidReishi
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Quankus said: My little contribution to the Bay Area thread: CyanoFriscosas from Monterey Bay. I wanted to show how often they grow bunched up on top of each other in my area but not necessarily in others. Also, the stems from this patch never get more than 3 inches..





Re: Psilocybe allenii in Monterey, CA. Look at what I just came across in the 2010 Bay area thread. Some motivation for you.
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D.little91
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Hey thanks David! I've been enviously checking up on your recent finds in the Bay area.... how's the weather been up there? Nice cool night's here but it gets so hot during the day I'm having trouble finding wood chip patches that will stay moist.
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DavidReishi
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No problem. It's been sunny, dry and warm here recently, with nights remaining often around 60. But that may be changing in a day or two. In fact, this morning we had our first real blanket of fog and overcast in a long time.
You may be turning up practically all dry woodchips, but the act of going out there in the dry weather and searching has the advantage of cluing you in to some of those few, rare spots that do stay moist...even if you haven't found any yet. All the moist little havens I've observed this year are newly found locations. Some are as small as the woodchips around a single group of bushes at an otherwise relatively dry location. Of course the next step once you find such spots is to periodically and diligently visit each of them to see what, if anything, pops up.
EDIT: The real significance of finding such woodchip microclimates, that is, places that despite the dry weather remain more moist than others because of more irrigation, more shade, etc., is that once it rains, they'll be the first places at which you'll find mushrooms. Other areas, ones that now have more trouble remaining moist, become active only later with more rains. And finally, of course, those areas that receive no irrigation, or are out in the open with no shade, will only bring forth mushrooms with continued and what would be considered now exceptional rains. This is something you'll witness even at single locations.
Edited by DavidReishi (10/26/15 09:21 PM)
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