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oguy
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Bruises blue, prints black, grows from grass?!?!?!?!?!
#7137945 - 07/06/07 03:32 PM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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As many of you are aware, it finally started raining in NW Florida. So now we've got mushrooms of all sorts sprouting up everydamnwhere. Not a bad problem to have, really. While I'm still working on a trip to my fave cow field (its a drive from where I live), I spotted a whole bunch of interesting mushrooms growing from grass. At first I thought to myself "ah, more mystery Agaricus;" but then I saw one which was laying a perfectly black sporeprint on another (which is a probable Agaricus):

This fella right here.
So I grabbed my knife and started cutting shrooms.
These bad boys have brownish-violet gills:

And they bruise blueish/violet/black:







And they print dark black (the lighter parts are where the moisture from the mushroom looks like it got on the paper):


Finally, here is a cross-section of the freshly-bisected mushroom:


IN conclusion:
Habitat: Grass, growing in semi-clusters (small groups but not clumped together).
Gills: Gills are dark brownish-purple to black. Attached.
Stem: Stringy, bruises violet-black where cut or handled.
Cap: White to sunburnt brown.
Spore print color: Purplish brown to black.
Bruising: Violet to black.
Location: NW Florida - grass fields (ex-pasture? I don't know)
Edited by oguy (07/06/07 03:35 PM)
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YESSUP
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Re: Bruises blue, prints black, grows from grass?!?!?!?!?! [Re: oguy]
#7138084 - 07/06/07 04:06 PM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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Agaricus....Not Active..... Not blue bruising trust me! The spoor print is actually a dark Brown not Black.. They will bruise from red to a dark brownish...
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Edited by YESSUP (07/06/07 04:08 PM)
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oguy
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Re: Bruises blue, prints black, grows from grass?!?!?!?!?! [Re: YESSUP]
#7138135 - 07/06/07 04:17 PM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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Well hell...
Y'see... i see purple and think "blue." Also, my Audubon guide sez that the Psilocybe cubensis prints "purplish brown," which is (kinda) what I see here... I also noted some similarities to the mushrooms that Pinhead found growing in mulch in Texas - but I am also very new at this and am not about to run a risk with my personal health.
Y'sure? I hate fuckin' Agaricus... they grow like weeds around here and they're enough like cubes to get me all excited. 
The one in the first pic was definitely an Agaricus, I just included it to show the spores which had spilled on it from the other, more suspect (I thought) mushrooms.
Edited by oguy (07/06/07 04:19 PM)
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minnesotaftl
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Re: Bruises blue, prints black, grows from grass?!?!?!?!?! [Re: oguy]
#7138145 - 07/06/07 04:21 PM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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Defiantly not cube like.
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YESSUP
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Re: Bruises blue, prints black, grows from grass?!?!?!?!?! [Re: oguy]
#7138176 - 07/06/07 04:29 PM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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They do look allot like a Cubensis (to the new hunters) but once you start finding Cubes you will easily be able to tell the differences..
-------------------- Gut Feeling leads to anxiety, Anxiety leads to fear, Fear leads to anger,And anger leads to regret.
Edited by YESSUP (07/06/07 04:39 PM)
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minnesotaftl
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Re: Bruises blue, prints black, grows from grass?!?!?!?!?! [Re: YESSUP]
#7138181 - 07/06/07 04:31 PM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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ive seen so many pictures off cubes they look off to me.
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oguy
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Re: Bruises blue, prints black, grows from grass?!?!?!?!?! [Re: YESSUP]
#7138189 - 07/06/07 04:34 PM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yeah... the way I think of it is that if you're listening to the little voice in your head that wants them to be cubes... they prolly aren't. I figure when I know, I'll just know. It was just weird seeing these guys growing all over the place today.
I will be going to a cow pasture tonite, hopefully will come back with some real cubes. Wish me luck!
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Alan Rockefeller
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Re: Bruises blue, prints black, grows from grass?!?!?!?!?! [Re: oguy]
#7138211 - 07/06/07 04:40 PM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yes, these are Agaricus.
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oguy
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Re: Bruises blue, prints black, grows from grass?!?!?!?!?! [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#7138256 - 07/06/07 04:51 PM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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DAMMIT!!!!!!!
(alan rockefeller is God, mushroom-wise)
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PinheadX
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Re: Bruises blue, prints black, grows from grass?!?!?!?!?! [Re: oguy]
#7138493 - 07/06/07 05:40 PM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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heh.
I have updates in my mulch thread coming. Habitat pics and substrate pics, plus today's finds I didn't give away to a friend. Her boyfriend said he's seen cubes in piles of mulch/compost at job sites (construction), and he knows what they look like, too.
Keep looking, man. I doubt you'd ever find them in grass, unless someone buried poo or some other stuff they were colonizing already (like someone's outdoor project or something).
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Re: Bruises blue, prints black, grows from grass?!?!?!?!?! [Re: oguy]
#7138642 - 07/06/07 06:12 PM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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Do not eat!!!!!!!! Throw away!!!
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