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Shroomer215
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SporePrints
#5399664 - 03/14/06 03:45 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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In my area hunting season is around the corner. Since I never really hunted before, i did alot of research on hunting. Everywhere I read said that you need to identify the spore prints. This I already knew, however I looked for a data-base of all the possible spore prints, and I am not finding it. It's probally right under my nose, dose anyone have a link of where I can find such info
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xmush
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I've never seen a good set of spore print images all in one place. But any mushroom description you read will tell you the sporeprint color. You need to then print mushrooms whose ID you are sure of to see how your idea of the spore color matches with the description writers.
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steve055
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Re: SporePrints [Re: xmush]
#5400406 - 03/14/06 06:32 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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It might be wise to pick up a good field guild.
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eris
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Usually spore print color is a starting point in keys to genera. If you study various keys you can get some idea of the common colors and which genus commonly drops which spore color. Within one genus there can be species that have spore shades that differ though, so it does get somewhat confusing for some genera.
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ShRm22
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Re: SporePrints [Re: eris]
#5400639 - 03/14/06 07:18 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I'm guessing that there is but i am just making sure there is before i buy one, in the field guides are there psychedelic mushroom info in there? Also what would be the best field guide that concentrates on the NE US around the Philadelphia area?
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eris
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Re: SporePrints [Re: ShRm22]
#5400660 - 03/14/06 07:23 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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You can get this, a field guide that specializes in psychedelic mushrooms http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0898158...5Fencoding=UTF8
I've had a copy for a long time, lots of info there. Interesting to read.. I'm near the Philadelphia area too - there isn't much out here in the way of actives though. Pan subbs in spring through fall and gymnopilus in the fall, that's about it.
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xmush
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Re: SporePrints [Re: eris]
#5401440 - 03/14/06 10:37 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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The book Eris recommends is good. But I think that even if you are only interested in actives, it still pays off to just give in and enjoy hunting all kinds of mushrooms. Once you get good at identifying the common ones that you encounter, then you are much less likely to make a mistake when you finally do get an active. Plus, the hobby is incredibly fun. You can hike the same trails every day and each day can be like a completely different walk depending on the shrooms you see. For that reason I would get a more general field guide, and use sites like this for your psychedelic identification purposes.
I like Roger's Mushrooms of North America, but it can be hard to find. The Audubon book is not bad (despite all the haters out there), and it does have some active pictures. It also has a list of spore print colors. A tip with field guides is to understand the written descriptions and the vocabulary that mycologists use, the pictures should just be thought of as a general hint.
Anyway, good luck and enjoy.
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inoculatedGreif
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Re: SporePrints [Re: xmush]
#5402536 - 03/15/06 08:40 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Where are you located? and cant you tell if it bruises or not? or is there somthing else to finding out if their active?
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Shroomer215
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Well im in the Philly area, and i believe that there are only 2 or 3 actives around here. I have them written down somewhere, pan subb mabey..?.... Anyway last summer me and a friend went hiking and came across a cluster of these small to medium sized brown topped shrooms on a hill next to a decaying log a few days after it rained, we took some of them back to his place and by the time we got there the stem was all bruised up. Unrelated to this, that is the day I found out im so interested in shrooms, we must have seen at least 30 different species in a matter of 2 hours. The neatest on I saw was about 10 inches in diamater 6 inches high and it was yellow, purple, and a little green. Amazing!
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