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angryshroom
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Re: Hay Bail Pan subbs. [Re: shroomydan]
#4315362 - 06/19/05 10:00 PM (19 years, 10 months ago) |
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nice finds man!
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shroomydan
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Registered: 07/04/04
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Loc: In the woods
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Re: Hay Bail Pan subbs (new photos added 4JUL05) [Re: shroomydan]
#4372094 - 07/05/05 11:58 AM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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I took a drive over to my spot in PA yesterday and sure enough, the subbies were waiting for me.
This spot has got to be one of the coolest finds of my mushroom hunting career. I only like to hunt on public land, so this leaves little access to Panaeolus subbalteatus's preferred habitat. The day I found this spot I was walking in the wooded flood plain along a stream on public game land in Western Pennsylvania. I was searching for the elusive P. caerulipes when up ahead I noticed a hay bail. It was actually half of one of those large round bails. It looked so completely out of place lying there in the woods along the stream. It must have been picked up from the farm about a half mile upstream and deposited there by the massive flooding brought by hurricane Ivan last fall. I continued down stream and found four more bails. Humidity from the nearby stream and dense shade from the forest provide the perfect conditions for my little friends to thrive. On three of the five bails I have found Pan subbs.
When I find them they are usually blackened by spores. As you can see they do not resemble Panaeolina foenisecii.
They are quite a bit larger than Pan foens and the caps become plane as they age. Pans foens usually remain campanulate at maturity.

In this earlier photo you can see how they start off bell shaped, but flatten out as they mature.

Another way to tell you have a Pan subb is to look where the stem attaches to the gills. The top of the stem is bulbous and you can see the dark lines which MJ mentioned. These start where the gills attach and continue down the stem. These lines are not visible on Pan foens.

This spot is a reliable producer. Ive been back five or six times since I found it, and there have been mushrooms on at least one of the bails every time. It's amazing what you can find if you get out there and look.
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stankness
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Re: Hay Bail Pan subbs (new photos added 4JUL05) [Re: shroomydan]
#4372570 - 07/05/05 03:06 PM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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those look so freakin delicious man. id love to stuble across those on a hunt.
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MadSeasonAbove
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Registered: 09/29/03
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Re: Hay Bail Pan subbs (new photos added 4JUL05) [Re: stankness]
#4372702 - 07/05/05 03:42 PM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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Wow, that is a sweet spot!
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Hermes_br
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Re: Hay Bail Pan subbs (new photos added 4JUL05) [Re: shroomydan]
#4372808 - 07/05/05 04:20 PM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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nice ones..
thanks for the pics...
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