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CptnGarden
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FOUND ACTIVE BLUE MYCENA! - common? PICS!!!
#7417569 - 09/16/07 07:04 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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went hiking today, HUGE HIKE.
visited many rainforests here on the PNW today. first place i went me and my lady found 2 blueish grey mycena, i instantly was drawn to them and their presence. turned out they are bruising blue all over the base of the stems! found another on my way out. they grew in the thicket canopies of bushes, on lots of decaying sticks and things.
i know that they grow and have been found, but are they rare? what about for washington state? pics will be up soon, found so many chants, oysters, king boletes etc, pics by tonight 4 sure.
for those who dont know, this is a supposed "Mycena cyanorhizza" that im referring to.
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Mycena Cyanorhizza
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Edited by CptnGarden (09/16/07 08:48 PM)
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Re: FOUND BLUE MYCENA! - common? [Re: CptnGarden]
#7417816 - 09/16/07 08:24 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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woa , was the micelium blue or only the stem , it supost to blue in the miceliun , well love to se the pictures, nice find i guees wil be prety easy to grow in peace of wood o twing
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Re: FOUND BLUE MYCENA! - common? [Re: cactu]
#7417831 - 09/16/07 08:30 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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update, pixxxxx!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: FOUND BLUE MYCENA! - common? [Re: CptnGarden]
#7417860 - 09/16/07 08:40 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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yeah , you got it for my point of view , whoa a pretty exotic specie you should save it , i tell you i think is real easy to grow this one in pieceof wood precomposted, like in the habitad , congratulations try to take pieces of micelium with the mushrroms next time to see more of the blue and there you have a inoculum later.
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Re: FOUND BLUE MYCENA! - common? [Re: CptnGarden]
#7417864 - 09/16/07 08:41 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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 some oysters, and a yellow chant, I didnt think they would be out but we met an older couple on the trail who had a whole paper bag filled to the brim with chants!!!! so i had to go looking, i think they pretty much cleaned the place out 
and my boletus edulus photoz is on someone else's camera, but most of them were pretty bug eaten anyways, its hard to get to them first thats for sure.
 a mushroom cloud of spores  anyone know the name of this mushroom? i know its a kind of pseudo-puffball.



 some more pics of the earth around me and the energies at work here.
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Re: FOUND BLUE MYCENA! - common? [Re: CptnGarden]
#7417884 - 09/16/07 08:49 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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amazing habitad pictures , that look like a lycoperdom , is micorrisic , nice forest
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Re: FOUND BLUE MYCENA! - common? [Re: cactu]
#7417890 - 09/16/07 08:50 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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yea those are really nice habitat pictures. beautiful forest.
and awesome mushies
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Re: FOUND BLUE MYCENA! - common? [Re: CptnGarden]
#7418618 - 09/17/07 12:39 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I have not seen any evidence to support the allegation of psilocybin/psilocin containing Mycena species...
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Re: FOUND BLUE MYCENA! - common? [Re: CureCat]
#7419225 - 09/17/07 10:15 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Really curecat. All my ID books came up missing after i moved but i could have swore Paul Stamets PMOTW Had a active mycena in it. I could be wrong but i thought there was something in that book about that.
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Re: FOUND BLUE MYCENA! - common? [Re: CureCat]
#7419242 - 09/17/07 10:20 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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CureCat said: I have not seen any evidence to support the allegation of psilocybin/psilocin containing Mycena species...
they sure put off a strong cyan light-show. while drying, the caps turned into what look like blueberries 
i would suspect they may be toxic, as the blue/green staining bolete is. they first stained green, and then it turned more azure with age. the last specimen I found was already blue on the base of the stem. the bluing isnt as dark as what ive seen from cyanescens, cubes, or copes, and not even like panaeolus subbalteatus or psilocybe stuntzii 
so in other words it didnt resemble the other alkaloid oxidation effects I witnessed in the past. I am more than curious now and am damn eager for someone to do a GC/MS!
why must they change color?
any info on this mushroom that anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated. not much out there.
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Re: FOUND BLUE MYCENA! - common? [Re: CptnGarden]
#7419256 - 09/17/07 10:28 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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http://books.google.com/books?id=10HiGVo94FUC&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=mycena+cyanorhizza&source=web&ots=wY-ewwPhru&sig=ULp2Ct01Q3dTAeGWcgn58KvkL0A
the link is paul stamets psilocybin mushrooms of the world, its page 58, and if u scroll up to the last few sentences of page 57 and read through onto page 58, stamets says that both mushroom john and gartz ingested these mycena and became psilocybin intoxicated 
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Re: FOUND BLUE MYCENA! - common? [Re: fliped]
#7419257 - 09/17/07 10:28 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World by Paul Stamets (pages 57-58):
Although I have made every attempt to make this book as complete as possible, more psilocybin-active species are being discovered each year. Many of them have not been bioassayed. Several candidates are particularly mystifying: I view several polypores with suspicion, and a bluing Lepiota or Hydnum is curious to me. But of all tantalizing genera, I am especially drawn to the small, delicate, but numerous Mycenas.
In the genus Mycena, which produces white spores, a half dozen species have bluish tones or turn bluish at the base. Mycenas are typically small, conic capped, woodland mushrooms. Despite repeated analyses (Klan 1985; Stijve and Bonnard 1986), no psilocybin or psilocin was detected in collections of Mycena amicta, Mycena cyanorhiza, Mycena pelianthina or Mycena pura.
Nevertheless, I have heard several anecdotal accounts of activity from people ingesting Mycenas. John W. Allen (aka Mjshroomer) and Gartz (1992) reports that a personal bioassay resulted in psilocybin intoxication on two occasions from two blue-footed Mycenas, a "Mycena cyanorhizza" and an unidentified Mycena, likely to be M. amicta. Because he is well versed in the effects of psilocybin, we should take his report seriously. However, we are faced with some contradictions.
I have been growing a luminescent Mycena from Malaysia, M. chlorophos, which produces white mycelium that bruises blue when cut. One analysis, however, have failed to detect any psilocybin, psilocin, or baeocystin. Is the bluing bluing phenomenon seen in these Mycena chemically similar to that seen in the psilocybin-producing mushrooms? Or are the events totally unrelated? Many researchers agree that the bluing Mycenas should be broadly screened and compared to the psilocybin-active species. Until then, I do not recommend experimenting with these or any other mushrooms with which we have had little experience. Nevertheless, with the current state of knowledge, the bluing reaction is an especially good indicator of psilocin activity in the Psilocybe and Panaeolus.
Works Cited
Allen, J.W., and J. Gartz. 1992. Index to the botanical identification and chemical analysis of the known species of the hallucinogenic fungi. Integration 2 and 3: 91-97.
Klan, J. 1985. Ceska Mykologie 39: 58-64.
Stijve, T.C., and J. Bonnard. 1986. Psilocybin et uree dans le genre Pluteus. Mycologia Helvetica 2: 123-130.
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Re: FOUND BLUE MYCENA! - common? [Re: Workman]
#7419272 - 09/17/07 10:33 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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lol we posted it at the same time!
right on workman i love you
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Re: FOUND BLUE MYCENA! - common? [Re: CptnGarden]
#7419436 - 09/17/07 11:38 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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> i would suspect they may be toxic, as the blue/green staining bolete is.
If they are, they contain muscarine, which is not nearly as bad as some of the other mycotoxins. It causes sweating in low to moderate doses, so if you start slowly and watch for excess sweating or other non-psilocybin like symptoms, you should be ok.
I don't know of any other mycotoxins that occur in Mycena.
Bluing Mycenas are widely distributed and rare.
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Re: FOUND BLUE MYCENA! - common? [Re: CptnGarden]
#7419691 - 09/17/07 01:07 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Soooooo, John Allen's' anecdote is the only "evidence" of a psilocybin containing, blue Mycena.... Yeeeah, I think the chemical analysis holds a hell of a lot more weight.
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Re: FOUND BLUE MYCENA! - common? [Re: CureCat]
#7419860 - 09/17/07 02:13 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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> Soooooo, John Allen's' anecdote is the only "evidence" of a psilocybin containing, blue Mycena.... Yeeeah, I think the chemical analysis holds a hell of a lot more weight.
One legit-looking trip report would do it for me, but it is hard to gather enough of these.
Until I see one, its 50/50 whether or not they are active.
I would like to know though. It would be the only white spored active, and the only active in the Tricholomataceae.
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it would be quite a find... I'm almost willing to declare myself insane, clone myself, eat a few and possibly die just for scientific study and analysis. Too bad there arent any cloning facilities nearby... that i know of...
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yeah... that YOU know of...
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Re: FOUND BLUE MYCENA! - common? [Re: PinheadX]
#7421902 - 09/17/07 11:05 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Its time for me to start hiking...
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Re: FOUND BLUE MYCENA! - common? [Re: Cryogenicz]
#7422221 - 09/18/07 01:27 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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i have the possibility to test if the shrooms contain psilocin/psilocybin.
i first need the mushrooms
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