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ThePeruvianTorch
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No picture... good description
#6100953 - 09/25/06 11:08 PM (17 years, 4 months ago) |
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so i found these wood dwelling fungi sorry no pics but the caps looked like cubes ( i know they're not) spore print: dark purple/black depending on time
stem: fibrous and hollow giving an audible pop when bent
gills: younger specimans where slightly connected and older ones had barely noticable connection to the stem, the gills where white-ish to cream coloured with a purple tint to them, which seemed to turn darker after they where picked, not sure on that though. and at least one speciman had blue-ing on the mycealium but i didnt have any other specimans that had mycealium on em'
caps: the middle was a darker brown while the outside was lighter and they where convex
these where picked in northeast wisconsin in a pine tree plantation. I was actually squirrel/bird hunting and came across a patch of at least 500 of these scattered about, along with some awesome orange fungus that's fruiting body was like an orange finger shooting out of the ground
any body wanna take a stab thanks, I can have pics tomorrow possibly
Edited by ThePeruvianTorch (09/25/06 11:34 PM)
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ThePeruvianTorch
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ohh yeah, and the caps on the younger ones where convex (thats like a nipple kinda right? not like a bowl? i dunno.. nipple haha) where-as the older ones where flat, and some wavey
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Feelers
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Was your orange fungus like this?
 Mutinus elegans = Elegant Stinkhorn
Anyway for most ID's you really need a pic unfortunately, despite a good description. I had a look in the shroomery wiki about what grows in Wisconsin, http://www.shroomery.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/Hunting/USA and it is a large blank! So it probably isnt an active. 
As for a guess of what it is... Im going for "Stropharia rugoso-annulata" also called king stropharia or the wine cap. It is an awesome edible, but this is just a GUESS based on written info, so dont go eating anything till you get a confirmed ID. 
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ThePeruvianTorch
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Re: No picture... good description [Re: Feelers]
#6102634 - 09/26/06 10:47 AM (17 years, 4 months ago) |
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they seem to be Hypholoma of some sort if I had to guess, after doing some research... and yeah thats what the orange fingers looked like, except a lot more brilliant.
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ladle3000
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Hey, I found some Hypholomas the other day, but I'm not aware of any that bruise blue. If they truly do bruise blue and give off purplish prints then it's highly likely that they're active according to Stamets. It would be awesome if you could get a pic up, because there's not a lot of documented active psilocybes in this region.
Here's a pic of the Hypholomas I found...

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xmush
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The audible pop when you broke the stem 'sounds' more like Psathyrella. Spore print and description match too. But hypholoma is another good possibility given the large numbers that you found. Feelers - I thought of that stinkhorn too based on the description. Do Strophs grow in huge numbers like that?
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ThePeruvianTorch
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Re: No picture... good description [Re: xmush]
#6102943 - 09/26/06 12:08 PM (17 years, 4 months ago) |
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they looked similar to the pic you gave ladle, but more of a brown center, and yellowish outside, maybe even a slight green tinge to em' might've been the light though, and the bruising wasnt confirmed, it was just that one of the ones I found have noticable blue coloration in the mycealium at the base of the stem but it could have been something else? because no bruising occured anywhere else on any other of the shrooms. oh yeah and in my opinion they look nothing like any Psathyrella I've seen, the stems where white on younger specimans, growing brown and having a scaley apperance on older ones, and on some there was just the slightest remnants of a veil. thanks for your replys
Edited by ThePeruvianTorch (09/26/06 12:11 PM)
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ThePeruvianTorch
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oh yeah, sorry for posting so close together like this, but I will probably have pics up today, if I can find my usb cable, I got a sony digital camcorder that takes pics as well, just lost the usb cable. haha also... anybody like squirrel stew? got enough reds yesterday to cook up a big ol' crock pot of em' and it was yummy as hell.
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ladle3000
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Quote:
ThePeruvianTorch said: maybe even a slight green tinge to em' might've been the light though, and the bruising wasnt confirmed
The ones I found, Hypholoma fasciculare, are said to have green gills when they're younger, but I would still be suspicious of psilocybe even if the mycelium was bruising blue.
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orlandoshrooms
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Re: hmm........ [Re: ladle3000]
#6103543 - 09/26/06 02:20 PM (17 years, 4 months ago) |
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Wow those pics above look just like cubes minus the veil prolly a realy easy mistake to make in the field. that is the first time ive ever seen them and im shocked that they look so similar. nice pics though.
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VampireSlayer
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Nice stink horn dude! did you sniff it? i love sniffing stinkhorn they really smell like shit
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