The membranous, cortanarias-like veil would have also been an indicator, present in cyans, absent in baeos-

Just my opinion-

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I just wanted to add that the coloration of the bow-tie's as my friend Rich refers to them as is from the light frost cold weather condition from an over night weather change.

First I would like to post the actual clump of these mushrooms which Mattso was so kind to bring to me and leave them in a brown paper bag on my front porch. hehehehe.

Now here is a phto of some I found in the wild of the city only they are singular in their statue. However you can looked at the bows in the caps on the right of my picture and compare the shape to Mattso's image of the cluster. I photgraphed the cluster before I sent the specimens to Mexico for botanical determination.

. I also collected a good qantity of P. cyanescens with deep sea green in the caps, from the yellow color in drying and the blue of oxidation which caused the caps to stain a green color rather than blue. I have found this color change in both P. stuntzii and in P. fimetaria.

Here is a group of the green capped shrooms before the green sets in and the rest were but a few inches or two away from the others.

Mj

As Guzman suggested it is a habitat condition. And Mattso, he did put the spores under the microscope. If you had that done at the University it would have cost you $175.00 for their botanical determination.

John

[This message has been edited by mjshroomer (edited April 09, 2000).]

Some large and small baeos

And Finally some real big blue fuckers

Mj

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Well, Who the hell am I to argue with Guzmann.
Still, I must say the mushrooms didn't look anything like cyans ( and you all know I know what cyans look like ) when I found them, nor did they dry like them... the stems were wide and very hollow, and brownish grey in color, and tall... and the caps were never bigger than a quarter, and the margins folded down and undulated only a little but.
- though that picture you took casts a revealing light on them, John.
You gave me the Baeo Identification initially, darnit... they even had YOU fooled. (so I'm not a total idiot, I guess)
I'm going to take you to them this year... to show you their habitat... boggling..

-You learn something new everyday.

You know what I like best about the weather warming up around here...? It means we're that much closer to musrhoom season...