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Heyowana said:
DNA  sequencing of P.undescribed and P.papuana showed that they werent similar.

From a mushroom eaters perspective as well. So I dont know if you want to test this out Bob. P.undescribed has a mushroomy taste. Fairly mild. Easy to eat. P.papuana has a metallic tangy taste that is quite bitter on the aftertaste.

So if you do a taste test on those yellow specimens it might help you know if they are different to the P.papuana you are finding.

Alan Rockefeller had this to say about the two samples I sent him of P.papuana and P.undescribed.
'The two are very different. One is really close to P.keralensis from China and India,and the other is closest to Psilocybe caerulescens/mexicana, but still not that close.' Interesting when I googled P.keralensis. Problem is I don't know which DNA sequence goes with what.
Unfortunately I'm not sure which is which!

I cant get over the resemblance of bobwastaken's bunches of P.papuana to P.caerulescens.

Maybe our P.papuana is like a caerulescens mushroom of hardwood forests, log piles and logging activities. They certainly grow well down south. Wish I could find them in that quantity.

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Fascinating. I wonder which species it turns out to be. Thanks for the tip on differentiating the species on taste. I haven't tasted any but since you mentioned it they have a distinctively different smell. I find the P.papuana smell similar to P.subaeruginosa while the gold specimens resemble the smell of field mushrooms more closely.

I recently made some more finds in a paddock. Not sure which species. Very robust specimens with a deep rooted, flexible stipe which was difficult to extract. The stipe would have to be 10mm thick.





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and then some very diminutive P.papuana in the rainforest.


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Found this little sweetheart in the blue mountains yesterday, starting to warm up again so I wont make another trip until it cools down. Was amazing having a trek through, watch out for them red bellys though.

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Nice find Dreamworks. They'll be everywhere soon.

Speaking of snakes any idea of this species?



I stepped by it after a picture and found some P.alutacea nearby.
First time I've seen them fruit from cow manure. In SA they only fruit from roo dung or horse manure it seems.




Then a storm moved in. Dumped 50mm in a matter of minutes. Also something we don't get in SA. Was awesome to experience.




Some recent shots of a pine forest inland from Port Macquarie.




I found lots of P.subaeruginosa throughout the pines.




A.muscaria


and today, inland from Bega. Lot's of P.subaeruginosa coming up.

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I recently made some more finds in a paddock. Not sure which species. Very robust specimens with a deep rooted, flexible stipe which was difficult to extract. The stipe would have to be 10mm thick.

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Psilocybe aucklandiae


P. aucklandiae, a recent collection from the same location as the above image from last year, pseudorhiza distinctly visible on two of the younger specimens.

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I recently made some more finds in a paddock. Not sure which species. Very robust specimens with a deep rooted, flexible stipe which was difficult to extract. The stipe would have to be 10mm thick.

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Psilocybe aucklandiae


P. aucklandiae, a recent collection from the same location as the above image from last year, pseudorhiza distinctly visible on two of the younger specimens.

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very little bluing ... except for the makororae ... and the werare looks very .... different

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Psilocybe aucklandiae is one of the most intensely bruising species in the world, usually such a dark reaction it is almost black, often with a violet hue, the specimens in my image show very little bruising because I have not abused them in any way, my collection methods are likely very different to most people here because I am trying to preserve the taxonomic characteristics.

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I want to go foraging near sydney, willing to travel far and wide, however, I have no car to use for transport and would most likely be using train/buses to get around, does anyone know of any areas where I am able to explore that are close to a train station?

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SameMould said:
Looks like a copperhead to me, Bob. God, those pine forests look healthy!

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Found this last year;

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SameMould said:
Looks like a copperhead to me, Bob. God, those pine forests look healthy!

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Found this last year;

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Heyowana said:
The P.undescribed species consensus has changed on mushroomobserver.
MO 271407 & MO 268682 has changed from Psilocybe papuana to Psilocybe sp.

There is a name proposal of Psilocybe sect. Zapotecorum by Alan Rockefeller. Based on chemical features from his sequence data.

This is exciting news because this makes it the only species found in this section in this country.

Plus I can now call it Psilocybe sect. Zapotecorum.

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That is pretty cool 

It's pretty awesome for you to be able to contribute something like that.