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LeafRaker said:
This is super interesting. Before I went ovoid hunting I read all threads here documenting the years of ovoid seasons. It hit me that there wasn't a really highly calibrated sense of what they looked like. While everyone had a pretty strong sense of the when, where, how they fruited, what they looked like was a whole other thing.

I've been hoping that that bioinformatics student (here's the thread: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/27186783 ) returns to this forum. It would be cool (possibly a very bad idea, as well!) to share a bunch of our spring finds with them, including some level of geographic identifier, and see what kind of relatedness can be gleaned, if only to show a family tree that gives us some conception of how populations have spread.

At this point, how many phenos do we have that get called ovoids here? I'm thinking we have seen at least half a dozen.

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LeafRaker said:
This is super interesting. Before I went ovoid hunting I read all threads here documenting the years of ovoid seasons. It hit me that there wasn't a really highly calibrated sense of what they looked like. While everyone had a pretty strong sense of the when, where, how they fruited, what they looked like was a whole other thing.

I've been hoping that that bioinformatics student (here's the thread: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/27186783 ) returns to this forum. It would be cool (possibly a very bad idea, as well!) to share a bunch of our spring finds with them, including some level of geographic identifier, and see what kind of relatedness can be gleaned, if only to show a family tree that gives us some conception of how populations have spread.

At this point, how many phenos do we have that get called ovoids here? I'm thinking we have seen at least half a dozen.

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Definitely getting close to double digits as far as pheno types go, the problem is that variance does not always indicate they are different species, for example if you found albino penis Envy growing wild you would most certainly come to the conclusion that it is a separate species from psilocybe cubensis. But in reality it's just a genetic freak. The only real way to tell would be widespread genetic sequencing and high quality microscopy of the ovoid collections from all corners of their know range. Obviously this is a little unrealistic as most people who find and collect them are doing so to dry them out and eat them, not do Mycology work.

On another note I'm planning to try and spread the naturalizing cyans I found at the end of the season. My plan is to soak those little absorbent water beads in spores and spread them with a fully automatic machine gun in all the flood plains and public parks.

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Moria841 said:
That looks like one that got a little screwed up due to environmental factors, or a strange mutant.

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Shroomhunts said:
Issa pin bruh
But real shit ovoids can get massive

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Shroomhunts said:
Damn that's a thick ass cluster were those growing from mulch or buried wood

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Wood mulch. I like to look for projects they do along creeks where they put the sediment socks with mulch in them when the job is done. Usually the following season you get this...