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greenmeanie77
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Does a thin, translucent, separable, gelatinous pellicle guarantee a psilocybe genus mushroom?
#26646298 - 05/03/20 03:34 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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My daughter saw this small mushroom growing from moss while we were walking (in May) in a conifer forest in Vancouver BC. Given the season and color/shape of the mushroom, I thought it likely to be a conocybe or inocybe. On gently tearing the cap apart however, I noticed a thin, transparent, gelatinous separable pellicle, and wondered if this characteristic alone meant that she had found a psilocybe despite it not quite looking like anything I've read about.
I saw in previous posts that there are "non active" varieties that have a separable gelatinous pellicle and also that many non-psilocybes have separable pellicles. However, specifically, is a thin, see-through, stretchy, gelatinous, separable pellicle unique to the psilocybe genus? Thanks!
P.s. sorry for the incomplete picture/lack of spore print. I lost the stem (and the cap) before I could take a print. Wondering if this is actually an example of Psilocybe pelliculosa?
Habitat: Conifer forest growing from moss near Vancouver, BC in May
Gills: White gills
Stem: Brown stem, 2cm long
Cap: O.5cm, cinnamon brown apex, pale white margin, conical, viscid with thin, translucent, separable gelatinous pellicle
Spore print color: Unknown
Bruising: Cap did not bruise
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Psilosadhu



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Re: Does a thin, translucent, separable, gelatinous pellicle guarantee a psilocybe genus mushroom? [Re: greenmeanie77]
#26646345 - 05/03/20 03:50 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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It's a mycena sp. The pellicle has nothing to do with psychoactivity.
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greenmeanie77
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Re: Does a thin, translucent, separable, gelatinous pellicle guarantee a psilocybe genus mushroom? [Re: Psilosadhu]
#26646369 - 05/03/20 03:59 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Thanks, looking at previous posts more closely, I'm seeing that a pellicle seems to be thin and translucent by definition and is indeed present on other varieties of mushroom. I guess one's first post is always dumb!
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sbkn
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Re: Does a thin, translucent, separable, gelatinous pellicle guarantee a psilocybe genus mushroom? [Re: greenmeanie77]
#26646396 - 05/03/20 04:15 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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No one trait is an indication of a specific type of shroom, for example, all psilocybes bruise blue and that is perhaps one of the most important indicators, but other shrooms like Boletes bruise a deep blue as well.
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Psilosadhu



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Re: Does a thin, translucent, separable, gelatinous pellicle guarantee a psilocybe genus mushroom? [Re: sbkn]
#26646443 - 05/03/20 04:36 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Blue and greenish bruising is an indication of psilocybin, but no proof as there is other non-psychoactive species with that trait. But blue bruising along with black or purplish brown spore print is as close to a confirmation as you can get.
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