When I found this patch pictured above, they were all fruiting in tall grass about a foot high, underneath a big tree. Most of the shrooms were hiding in there pretty good. Ive also found a spot where they are growing directly from cow dung...its a gorgeous mushroom.

OH!!! And now that I think of it, MJ!! I found a SHROOM...
It had White gills,
The Stem stained as BLue as can be,
Fruiting from cow dung,
Found on the same pie as some copelandias.
It was all weird looking...it was a ShROOM with White Gills! Cap was about two inches, stem about three.
When i picked that thing up and saw the White Gills and White Stem and some really intense bluing on it and i just said "Holy Shit!".
The gills smelled excellente, mucho magico!
I'm on the prowl to find that mushroom again cause i no longer have the sample heheheh

Mj, any ideas as to what it could be?
I didnt have my camera on me at the time..

I believe that you most likely picked a sterile Copelandia.

Also after looking at your shrooms it is hard to tell what those are.

I think they could be Panaeolina castaneifoilius or another strain of Copelandia.. But Althought the gills resemble the subs, the stems are not right. They do However resemble also Panaeolus papilionaceus and Copelandia species at the same time which the other have been known to mimic each other in the field..

IT is the way that they were fruiting. And P. subs hardly ever have any bluing in them whatsoever, unless they are growing at high altitudes of 3000 meters and above as in Hawaii. Even in the haystacks there is no bluing at the base of the stem but in the mycelium under the hay is a light azure blue in the cottony white strands of mycelium at the base of the stem.

Here is a picture of similar Copelandia,s even with reddish-brown stems.

Mjshroomer

[This message has been edited by mjshroomer (edited July 17, 2000).]

Sterile Copelandia, your most likely correct about that one. As for the pictures here,.. the only part of them that stained blue was the blue fuzzy mycelium at the base. Who knows what they are? Who cares heheheh, the mushroom fields are begining to grow weird things!

I must have found eight different shroom species that resemble copelandias today. All kinds of weird shrooms that stain blue. All kinds of strange shrooms I dont remember seeing out there before. Its halarious heheheheh

i always like your pics!!

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BTW, I think that (at least the strain I've been pickin') might be more potent than cubensis by weight. As soon as I get a good catch of cubensis, I'll run some experiments and post results.

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