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InvisibleBingoBongo
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Identification best practice question
    #23643479 - 09/13/16 11:55 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

Hi

I am a new member here and keen to learn everything I can prior to next years season (I live in canberra, Australia so winter is ending now).

My questions is the following -

When you find a 'patch' with many mushrooms. How many would you normally spore print to ensure you have safely identified them?

Psilocybe Subaeruginosa grow around here but I know there are a few non-edible varieties that look similar and can grown in the same area. Death caps also grow here, which whilst not appearing similar, does emphasise why I suppose I'd like to be safe about it.

THerefore - do people literally spore print every one they pick (I'm sure the answer is no)? If not then what's the best way to go about it for a newbie?

Cheers


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Re: Identification best practice question [Re: BingoBongo]
    #23643721 - 09/14/16 03:18 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

imo you only need to spore print one, and maybe a backup or two, unless part of the exercise was differentiating lookalikes, in which case spore print all possible lookalikes.


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Invisiblecandry
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Re: Identification best practice question [Re: Joie]
    #23644707 - 09/14/16 01:57 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

Spore print every specimen you have any uncertainty about.

At first this could mean making a print of every single mushroom. But if you number and closely study the features of each one you print (and perhaps take photos), and then compare their finished prints, you will quickly start learning what they do and do not look like.

This is how I started, and by my third find and after 40-some prints, I was confident enough on that species to no longer need identification help from the Shroomery. (In truth I was confident well before that point, but an abundance of caution felt appropriate.)


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Re: Identification best practice question [Re: BingoBongo]
    #23644946 - 09/14/16 03:15 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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BingoBongo said:
Hi

I am a new member here and keen to learn everything I can prior to next years season (I live in canberra, Australia so winter is ending now).

My questions is the following -

When you find a 'patch' with many mushrooms. How many would you normally spore print to ensure you have safely identified them?

Psilocybe Subaeruginosa grow around here but I know there are a few non-edible varieties that look similar and can grown in the same area. Death caps also grow here, which whilst not appearing similar, does emphasise why I suppose I'd like to be safe about it.

THerefore - do people literally spore print every one they pick (I'm sure the answer is no)? If not then what's the best way to go about it for a newbie?

Cheers




When you have a definite ID on a mushroom, preferably by a Trusted Identifier (TI) here.  Getting to know it by smell and taste would be a much faster way of sorting the good from the bad, in the field, rather than having to print them all when you get home.
So, when you come across those oddities that don't quite look like the 'picture perfect/poster mush' of the species you might have seen in a book, you will be able to 'follow your nose'.


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