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    #27116028 - 12/30/20 11:04 AM (3 years, 29 days ago)

Guys,

In May 2019, I was doing agar transfers with stropharia and cyanescens.  After taking a transfer from one of the plates (I don't recall which one), I removed the colonized agar puck from the plate.  On a whim, I dug a shallow hole in my back yard, put the puck in the hole agar side down and covered the puck with a thin layer of soil.

Two days later, I checked on the puck and IT WAS GONE.  I suspect that animals may have dug it out and ate it.

Three days ago on 12/27/20, I discovered these growing in the same spot that I buried the vanishing agar puck!  Could this be a mere coincidence?












Some of these caps are 4" in diameter.  I pulled one mushroom and noticed that the mushroom underneath it had what appeared to be white spores on its cap, which aren't indicative of psilocybin mushrooms.  I scratched the stem and it appeared to bruise.

For some strange gardening reason known only to my landlord, there is black plastic sheeting buried in the soil.  When I pulled the sheeting back, I discovered the largest, thickest bed of mycelium that I've ever seen!


Could it be cyanescens?  If so, these are the biggest caps I've ever seen.


Can someone please identify them?



Thanks,

Tom


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Re: Buried in the backyard. [Re: tomcards]
    #27116144 - 12/30/20 12:00 PM (3 years, 29 days ago)

Stropharia rugosoannulata ,red
Armillaria sp., orange one


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Re: Buried in the backyard. [Re: RenegadeMycologist]
    #27116151 - 12/30/20 12:07 PM (3 years, 29 days ago)

Its not Stropharia, those have purple spores, while these have white spores. Compare to Armillaria solidipes


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Re: Buried in the backyard. [Re: Moria841]
    #27116193 - 12/30/20 12:30 PM (3 years, 29 days ago)

How strange.

If it's not Stropharia or Cyanescens, then these shrooms are unrelated to the agar puck that I buried in the same spot, only to vanish later.

Perhaps when I cleared away some foliage, dug the hole and filled it back in, I disturbed the soil sufficiently to stimulate the growth of different, pre-existing mycelium.  The soil disturbance alone, not my agar puck, may be responsible for these shrooms.


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Re: Buried in the backyard. [Re: tomcards]
    #27116241 - 12/30/20 12:51 PM (3 years, 29 days ago)

I have never seen Armillarias bright red like this.
But yes, after reading your post and closer inspection i can agree red ones are not stropharia, especially with that spore color.

Orange one is definetely Armillaria, not sure about red one, if Armillaria, i am surprised to see them growing such a different color from the same mycelium.

Don't be surprised, Armillarias are insane fucking parasites, they thrive in no time, and kill everything. Maybe your landlord is at war with them, hence the foil to prevent them fruiting or something.


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