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Jenk said:
Starting to pop up in the inner north and outer north east

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Been lurking a bit and waiting to post til I had my first discoveries which I had on Sunday. NW forest area. Not the biggest haul but better than my first one last year. Kinda strange growing conditions with lots of single fruits mostly growing at the base of different trees... not particularly close to each other but all within a hundred metres or so of each other.

Very first of the season, with a funny crinkly edge



Thought the myc on this one was impressive but the phone photo turned out a bit bog







Thought this was a sub pin at the time, but now thinking it was probably a Cortinarius sp.


Upturns are rare for me!




Picked this pin without looking at the pic first to notice that it hadn't unfurled yet - the stipe was super thick. Could've been a big boi


Dried out with some funky rain damage?


Left this one:



Is this an active gym?


Some other non-actives:

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Sykadelic said:
Here's a good link to help grow your own subaeruginosa




https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/24673753/vc/1/nt/484

There's heaps of other threads on here too

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Trossington said:
The orangey capped ones are likely L Ceres. I always find subs near those guys.

Subs are great at camouflage with their caramelly brown coloured tops in dried leafy litter like in your photos. It certainly pays to slow down, stop and get to ground level for them to suddenly appear. Good eagle eyeing!

That's some intense blueing in that split capped sub. Practically no brown visible.

And the second photo looks like it's gonna be a sweet cluster when they mature would love to see a photo of them after your next visit.

Hope your patience pays off and they remain waiting for you to be picked

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Ah cool, I've wondered occasionally what the orangey ones are, as they're the ones that also lead me to repeated disappointment to start with for my first season. But then I also realised that they were often a good indicator of patches that were at least worth a closer look.

Thanks for the compliment on spotting! I'm finding it like those "hidden eye" pictures that used to be popular - I'll be staring at a patch of mixed mulch and leaf litter and seeing absolutely nothing, but then notice one or two and suddenly they're literally everywhere I glance , including right next to my feet...

I popped back two days later to check and take some more photos but it's been so dry since they first flushed, it was like nothing had changed in terms of size... A bit concerned that they'll just dry out, and to be honest wasn't sure whether the right thing to do was grab some pins anyway or just leave them, in terms of preserving the patch. So I guess I'm waiting til we get the decent rain that's supposed to be coming from tomorrow, and then check again. Fingers crossed and all that.

So sorry no photos this time, but I'll post more when there's better to see - hopefully in the next day or two!

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Gus7 said:
Decided to have a pick today in the Otways and stumbled across these little guys... not to sure if they are subs or not but can someone please point me in the right direction.

Happy hunting!!

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