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Possible Laughing Gyms, Jack-o-Lanterns, what?
    #23617571 - 09/06/16 09:35 AM (7 years, 5 months ago)

Hey Shroomers,

Have been scouting out my local terrain after some light rainfall this week and stumbled upon a huge pile of burnt orange looking saprotrophic mushrooms which appear to my untrained eye to possibly be Big Laughing Gyms?

They seem to meet the characteristics, size, etc. of gyms with the exception of being kind of flaky in the stem and on the cap? Otherwise they are swollen in the middle and taper at cap and base. Either way these are right next to my house, there are quite a few more, and as long as I'm getting better at ID-ing the shroomages I feel good about taking the time to collect them up, etc.

I'm providing pictures of where they were found, gill shots, etc. Spore prints are in the making and from what I can tell there is a definite smattering of rust orange (am I right?) dust around the gills and onto the stem... Also there seems to be an almost sweet earthy aroma about them. In my research I've seen gyms that look completely different from one another, so hard for me to tell. I tried to snag some young ones and an older cluster. They all originate from single plugs which are a few inches deep in the woodchips. The stem is woody and firm, and I was able to harvest three clusters fairly easily. Lastly, yesterday when it was more humid none of the caps were 'cracked?' and after a bit of dryness today they seem to have split a bit, whereas there are other clusters which still have the smooth caps.

I've also heard that BLG doesn't have many deadly lookalikes - then again I've heard jack-o-lantern mushrooms which are toxic can sometimes look like gyms - I would never just taste a mushroom I found randomly but if I am fairly certain and a species has no deadly lookalikes is it ever advisable to just do the old taste test and see how she goes? I've read on Erowid and other sources of people just going around taste testing what they believed to be Gyms, and hoping for the best. Is it just me or is that not very bright? I really am a n00b just trying to get a feel for i.d.

Anyway ya'll much love and light. Appreciate ya. Be easy.
















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Re: Possible Laughing Gyms, Jack-o-Lanterns, what? [Re: akashikresonance_7]
    #23617586 - 09/06/16 09:42 AM (7 years, 5 months ago)

Omphalotus illudens. You can always tell Jack o Lanterns by the fact that the gills start to run down the stipe.

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Re: Possible Laughing Gyms, Jack-o-Lanterns, what? [Re: akashikresonance_7] * 1
    #23617912 - 09/06/16 11:45 AM (7 years, 5 months ago)

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Are you a time traveler?

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Re: Possible Laughing Gyms, Jack-o-Lanterns, what? [Re: h0ldthedoor]
    #23620534 - 09/07/16 01:12 AM (7 years, 5 months ago)

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akashikresonance_7 said:




Are you a time traveler?

:mygoditsfullofstars:





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