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Gumby
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Went hunting today... lots of WEIRD finds. (Pics)
#5963976 - 08/14/06 08:09 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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I finally found some time to go mushroom hunting this summer. Summer classes = hell. Remember, my camera is dead(getting repaired), so the pics are few.
So we decided to hunt for chanterelles. We go to our usual spot, by a river in a national park. They were doing some construction of somesort so I hopped the silt fence and went into with woods, my buddy lagged behind a bit.
I dashed into to the woods headding right for our spot then I stopped dead in my tracks. Why, you might ask? A copperhead was in the way. About 2-2.5 ft long copperhead, just cruising through the woods. What did I do? Broke off a branch into a makeshift pining stick and caught the damn thing, thats what I did. That's the 4th copperhead I've caught at this place. We got some pictures on my buddy's cell phone camera (I'll upload them when he does). After the photoshoot, I released him. Decided to bring my snakehook along for the hunt, just in case.
So we get to the usual hillside that's normally covered chanterelles. Nothing. Not a single damn one.
So we continue along the creek that they tend to grow, and we come to our regular patch of Red Chants. We found 6 of them. Big deal. But next to them were these weird looking mushrooms that I spotted because the cap color was similar to morels. My first thought was false morels, so I cut a few of them with my knife. They stained blue green. WTF!
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Here's the best description of them I can offer:
Habitat: In the woods, in leaf/stick litter near a stream, Northeast GA
Stem: initally a greyish white color, somewhat translucent... slimey as all hell. Base is blue-green, stem eventually turns the same color. Stem is hollow and filled with slime.
Cap: Looks similar to that of Gyromitra/Helvella/etc, but upon closer inspection it's more like Peziza, but inverted. Very wrinkled, incurled margins. Cross section of cap revealed that it was solid, not chambered or hollow(so it's not a false morel). Cap was ridiculously viscid as well. Hard to hold on to.
Gills: None, nothing even close.
Bruising: Blue-green(more greenish, mushrooms have a yellowish hue, see pics).
Smell: Not a very potent one of any kind. Some smell like pesticide(raid) some, some smell earthy, some smell like... mushrooms. Nothing like the smell of weilii though
Here are some pictures of said mushrooms(largest one is about 2.5" tall):



Cross section of cap (stem containing portion on bottom left):

Does anyone know what the hell these things are?
Ok, that aside. We continuted to hunting and ended up finding 2 whole "normal" chanterelles in rough shape. Pics:

On the walk back we found 3 Ps. weilii growing in very dense vegitation. No pics of them, gave them to my friend. I wasn't going to have them on me in a national park that rangers frequent.
Oh yeah, total interesting animal count for this hunt was as follows: 1 Copperhead (pics to come!) 1 Scorpion (The ones you find in Georgia, I don't know the species) 1 Salamander (Two-Lined) 3 Frogs (various species) 2 Box Turtles 1 Five-Lined Skink (lizard)
There you have it. My first real hunt of the summer. Now if someone can ID those mushrooms that bruise blue, that'd be awesome. Could they be a new psilocybin containing species or is that just a ridiculous thought?
Edit: Pictures suck because they were taken with a 1.3 megapixel camera that was made in around 98'. Sorry. 8 megapixel goodness should be back soon.
Edited by Gumby (08/15/06 12:26 AM)
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Re: Went hunting today... lots of WEIRD finds. (Pics) [Re: Gumby]
#5964017 - 08/14/06 08:19 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Oh please tell me you will preserve those?? dry them or what not? For tissue samples/gill fragments for microscopic inspection...
Damn, that is unlike anything I have seen!!!!
Don't have the first clue. Hopefully someone will have a lead!
Thanks for sharing, man!
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Re: Went hunting today... lots of WEIRD finds. (Pics) [Re: CureCat]
#5964071 - 08/14/06 08:29 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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those things look fucked up, poor retard shroom.
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Re: Went hunting today... lots of WEIRD finds. (Pics) [Re: Gumby]
#5964076 - 08/14/06 08:30 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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I feel like someone posted something similar a few months ago. Weird, looks like something I shot out of my nose last time I had a cold.
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Gumby
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Re: Went hunting today... lots of WEIRD finds. (Pics) [Re: xmush]
#5964882 - 08/15/06 12:21 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yeah, they feel a lot like cold boogers too. Literally. Slimey and disgusting. The old rotting ones were 100% blue.
Does anyone have any clue on at least a genus for those guys? ToxicMan? mjshroomer? Whatcha think?
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Re: Went hunting today... lots of WEIRD finds. (Pics) [Re: CureCat]
#5964896 - 08/15/06 12:24 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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CureCat said: Oh please tell me you will preserve those?? dry them or what not? For tissue samples/gill fragments for microscopic inspection...
Damn, that is unlike anything I have seen!!!!
Don't have the first clue. Hopefully someone will have a lead!
Thanks for sharing, man!
I will. They're drying in front of the air filter right now. No clue on how to get spore prints from a gill-less mushroom. Well, thats a lie. I do, but I'm not going to. Too much effort. Who ever examines them can find the spores
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Re: Went hunting today... lots of WEIRD finds. (Pics) [Re: Gumby]
#5965119 - 08/15/06 02:09 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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They seem a bit like Leotia. Maybe them or some related genus.
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Re: Went hunting today... lots of WEIRD finds. (Pics) [Re: Gumby]
#5965782 - 08/15/06 11:18 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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I agree with Leotia for the first ones, I was going to say the same thing. Something extremely similar grows around here, I find them all the time. They usually are yellowish and can turn green to bluish the older they get.
It seems to be something close to Leotia lubrica or Leotia atrovirens (the very green species). Lubrica apparently is yellow for the most part but can develop green tinges (for some reason not all sources mention the green).
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Re: Went hunting today... lots of WEIRD finds. (Pics) [Re: Gumby]
#5965804 - 08/15/06 11:24 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Gumby said:
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CureCat said: Oh please tell me you will preserve those?? dry them or what not? For tissue samples/gill fragments for microscopic inspection...
Damn, that is unlike anything I have seen!!!!
Don't have the first clue. Hopefully someone will have a lead!
Thanks for sharing, man!
I will. They're drying in front of the air filter right now. No clue on how to get spore prints from a gill-less mushroom. Well, thats a lie. I do, but I'm not going to. Too much effort. Who ever examines them can find the spores
 I was outta it when I posted that... as usual.
Duh, there are no evident gills.
Damn... i haven't even looked back at the picture yet today, and just remembering them is making me lose my appetite. Ehehehe.
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Re: Went hunting today... lots of WEIRD finds. (Pics) [Re: Gumby]
#5966651 - 08/15/06 04:26 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Those look to be Leotia lubrica, as Pinback and eris said. Those show more green than I've ever seen, but they're otherwise typical specimens.
The common name is "Jelly Babies". I think "Booger On A Stick" might be more accurate, but I'm not in charge of common names.
Happy mushrooming!
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Re: Went hunting today... lots of WEIRD finds. (Pics) [Re: ToxicMan]
#5967392 - 08/15/06 08:02 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Haha, yeah booger on a stick, that's a good one.
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