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Trippinballz
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help with identification???
#5418431 - 03/19/06 11:03 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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i need help identifying these mushrooms. i found them on a half rotten tree in Texas. the pics are kinda blurry but i think they'll work.
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/files/06-11/279130344-S3010028.jpg
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Trippinballz
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Re: help with identification??? [Re: Trippinballz]
#5418547 - 03/19/06 11:46 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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i have a good feeling that they might be Gymnopolis spectabilis
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ToxicMan
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Re: help with identification??? [Re: Trippinballz]
#5418573 - 03/19/06 11:54 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Unless the colors in those photos are off I doubt they're Gymnopilus.
Get a spore print. Gymnopilus produce bright orangish to rusty colored spore prints. I suspect that your specimens will produce a white spore print.
Happy mushrooming!
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Trippinballz
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Re: help with identification??? [Re: ToxicMan]
#5418913 - 03/19/06 02:03 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Re: help with identification??? [Re: Trippinballz]
#5418919 - 03/19/06 02:05 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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To tell you the throuth there are tons of other mushrooms that look like that.
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Trippinballz
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Re: help with identification??? [Re: Stonerguy]
#5418925 - 03/19/06 02:06 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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crap!!!
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Stonerguy
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Re: help with identification??? [Re: Trippinballz]
#5418935 - 03/19/06 02:10 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Im not saying that they arn't but Im not saying that they are either. Get a spore print and lets work from there.
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Re: help with identification??? [Re: Trippinballz]
#5418936 - 03/19/06 02:10 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Just because the cap might be the same color and the shape is similar doesn't mean it's the same. Looking at online pictures of actives and seeing which look most like your collection is not an effective way of identifying random mushrooms at all. The gymnopilus species typically don't have whitish gills like that. Assuming that the colors are for the most part correct on your pictures, one could say with pretty good certainty that they aren't active.
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Re: help with identification??? [Re: ToxicMan]
#5428128 - 03/21/06 11:11 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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ToxicMan said: Unless the colors in those photos are off I doubt they're Gymnopilus.
Get a spore print. Gymnopilus produce bright orangish to rusty colored spore prints. I suspect that your specimens will produce a white spore print.
Happy mushrooming!
not a "Gym".....and has white spores.....this is Lentinus ponderosus(or one of its deadly look alikes).....and like the second thing Toxic mentioned you should try and practice making spore prints.....use both dark(preferably black) AND white papers for the prints to best highlight the colors although prints arent always so forth coming....sometimes over 8 hrs....sometimes never for various reasons(shrooms too dry.....or possibly sterile where the shroom's not able to produce spores, etc.)....also covering the specimen when printing it on the paper can help wonders with maybe small bowl or cup over it.....but you want to obtain as thick of a print you can cause sometimes if too light(incomplete)....the color of the paper will mix with the color of the spores and give you something in between the dark and white.....if you look at so many of the spore prints posted here in pics are extremely thin in part of it and dense in other parts....giving two different color ranges....you only want to assess the darkest(densest) color in the print for determining your color even white....spore print is an ultra fine powder to the touch....then go ahead and take this name and see how it matches up by comparing with the endless universe of literature thats been posted on the internet(as I see youve already been doing from the links you provided) and see how they matchup to yours.....think this is an incredible mushroom to learn....interesting, this mushroom(unless one of its deadly clones) is related to the famous "Shitake" (Lentinus edodes)
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Re: help with identification??? [Re: shroominDole]
#5433072 - 03/23/06 06:17 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Almost look like oysters but don't know. I do know it's not Psilocybe thought. Thats my area of experiance. Good luck hunting!
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shroominDole
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Re: help with identification??? [Re: 4skin]
#5436073 - 03/23/06 09:38 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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4skin said: Almost look like oysters but don't know. I do know it's not Psilocybe thought. Thats my area of experiance. Good luck hunting!
your right and these mushrooms are commonly mistaken for oysters and I believe actually key out under Pleurotus in Arora.
-------------------- Worlds Largest 'Liberty Cap' (Cali Libs Confirmed !) ' Comments On Hallucinogenic Agarics And The Hallucinations Of Those Who Study Them ' Alexander H. Smith Mycologia vol.69 1977
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