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cactu
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DESTINATION UNKNOW ..............................
#7833631 - 01/04/08 09:12 PM (16 years, 28 days ago) |
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HELLO ALL HAPPY NEW YEAR i was having a vacation , to be honest i was dying to see mushrooms , so we set the course and hit the road destination unknow, we just drive to the desert lands where only the yucas and cactuces live and stand ,the cactu was happy to be back....... ww were in the middle of the earth as indial call the dessert the tropic of cancer pass close ,



 then we head to the mountains , here when all beging to change every 50 meters of altitude the nigh fall , the star brig almost all night , in the morning , a few shot. efhedra sp.




 then we take the road and pass the sierra , we beging to descend in altitude until we hit the valle or valley , and we take a bath in the beutiful manantila de la media luna , where crystaline water flow,






 then we head to the mountains again passin a new state , more river flow here , and la husteca was close it was time to rest.


the mornig is no mornig if you dont have your atole in jalpan , then we begging to climb the sierra gorda of queretaro, the diferent vegetations of this place always overwell me , first the pine forest and oaks appear then the pine dominate, and then a unique vegetation of liquidarmbar,alnus,platanus,populus trees grow as in canada and east of usa, here in wher caerulipides, live in mexico and many more , only in the state of hidalgo, queretaro,tamaulipas san luis potosi birch grow in mexico ,million year ago the vegetation of easth usa was in mexico because of the glaciar age now only this tree live to tell the history that happend many centurys ago in pleistoce age, the vegetation is increible, simple amazing, for me is like the best i have to do study my next hunting grounds enjoy i was .........










 then we where running out of gas so we head down to the jungle from 2000 meters to 600 meters , we stay there for 3 days, and visit some friends ,


 solandra sp.}


 next day we try to dycover what edwar james missed . we head to there .

 very good choice since there was when i found most of the mushrooms from this trip, marasmiellus sp.

 schizophyllum comune

 maybe some poria sp.







 marasmiellus sp.
 will post more later all my best vibration to you all my hand shake too much sorry for the blurr.
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: cactu]
#7833675 - 01/04/08 09:25 PM (16 years, 28 days ago) |
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Cool ephedra plant. Does it make a good tea?
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implee
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: cactu]
#7833708 - 01/04/08 09:34 PM (16 years, 28 days ago) |
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Awesome pictures, you need to work on that drinking problem, get the shakes down :P
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: cactu]
#7833753 - 01/04/08 09:49 PM (16 years, 28 days ago) |
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i especially like the mountain images
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cactu
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#7833828 - 01/04/08 10:17 PM (16 years, 28 days ago) |
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Las especies de Ephedra del altiplano potosino son: E. antisyphilitica, E. aspera, E. compacta, E. pedunculata y E. trifurca. El género se distribuye desde los 22° 02/`, hasta los 24° 13/´ de latitud norte y desde los 100°15/´, hasta los 101°45/´ de longitud oeste, la distribución altitudinal es desde los 1115, hasta los 2850 m. La mayor presencia de recolectas se registró en el clima tipo BS, en sitios con matorral desértico micrófilo. Los resultados confirman a las especies de Ephedra en San Luis Potosí, como elementos florísticos propios de las zonas áridas y semiáridas.
aparently not as good as asian species..

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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: cactu]
#7833929 - 01/04/08 10:43 PM (16 years, 28 days ago) |
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i will try implee i´m using new antishake prescription..
- -i especially like the mountain images
me to GGreatOne234 i love those mountains so especial if you like to see more from the area but in the rainy seasom see this links http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/7400578#7400578 http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/6439859#6439859 http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/7400220#7400220
i will post more tomorrow , peace,
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: cactu]
#7834490 - 01/05/08 04:10 AM (16 years, 27 days ago) |
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Nice photos, I wish I was there!!! I especially like the one with you reflection in the water.
Lemme give you some tips on your photos. We have the same camera.
Your scene shots are spectacular, but the mushrooms are all fuzzy.
http://www.digitalreview.ca/cams/pics/Sony_DSCW30back.jpg
the dial in the upper right hand corner should be set to the green camera icon, as seen in the photo.
below it, make sure the macro (flower symbol) setting is on.
To take photos, you must hold down the button half way, you will see the image on the screen try and focus, and then it will beep twice when it thinks it hase focused properly, if so, then without releasing the button press the button down all the way and release quickly. If the shot did not come into focus the first time, try releasing the button after it beeps twice, and refocusing until it looks clear. Tips for focusing are moving the camera in and out, or trying different angles, and using something (your hand) to change the background of your focal point so that it focuses on the subject.
What you do NOT want to do, is simply press down the button completely, and then release quickly. The camera was not designed to work like old cameras.
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: CureCat]
#7834515 - 01/05/08 05:08 AM (16 years, 27 days ago) |
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macro/micro Flower symbol not slower :P i got the dscw80 model they are pretty nice cameras
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: implee]
#7834626 - 01/05/08 06:52 AM (16 years, 27 days ago) |
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Amazzing shots as always cactu! must be nice to live in an area where most things you look at could be a beautiful wallpaper for your computer.
I wish i were so fortunate
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cactu
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: implee]
#7834634 - 01/05/08 07:01 AM (16 years, 27 days ago) |
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thank you cc, for the tips, i really preaciated, but yeah i did not put enouf time to take good pictures sorry , i was really not in mushrooms hunting i fell like a tourist, but i was on vacation sometimes you have to make millions move to get in nice focus , i did´t , people was waiting for me and i fell like they where holding enouf . haha , i was more amaze to be theere, and always in the future,thinking i was more recording in mi mind road and towns vegetation,and altitude.
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: cactu]
#7835143 - 01/05/08 11:28 AM (16 years, 27 days ago) |
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hola, looks like a nice trip. That river looks very nice. I'm surprised it's so clear. Is it totally spring fed? Great vegetation. That sounds like a unique habitat for that far south (hidalgo). And, those mushrooms do have a lot in common with the plethora of fungus I found in Hawaii. What is the annual rainfall like in areas near the coast, say up to 100 km inland?
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: landsnorkler]
#7835889 - 01/05/08 02:38 PM (16 years, 27 days ago) |
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you mean la media luna spring river , yes the area is a total desert ,but the spring bring life to the area , the water are blue in fact i have never seem so much crystaline water as all the rivers, springs , manantial, lagoon , damp over here, the constand rain in the many sierras bring lot of water to the deser valley of rio verde i guess the name is self explinatory, but as this this state of san luis potosi , la sirra gorda de queretaro , tamaulipas are full of rivers of water from color that range to blue,turqueise,green,esmerald, cristaline , traslucid, white, shit is dificult to find a comom river here all have a glow an brig aura . the water of this spring in a bit warn not to much but enouf many acuatic plant are endemic here also some fish , are unique. in rainy season copes and cubes grow near. is amazing how all this sierra capture all the rain of the gulf coast ,so the humid air hit here and rain fell , almost all year, in fact rainy seasom is beggining there when i left where 2 days non stops rain , i almost got there for the subb and copes a few more day and iwill be a dung lover again. the cold north is what fed this places in the more warn and humid part the north easth part and below 600 metter of altitude are where the rain get as much as 2000mm a year that is where i find all the mayoroty of mushrooms this time a true tropical enviromente here are 3 level of tropical jungle lowere , middle and high jungle, all are unique and interbredd with each others and with other vegetation in highert part as the mesofitic forest where the more neoarticflora exist, oaks pines,liquidambar,populus, ptseudotsuga,alnus, arbutus, etc, in lower and dry part with desert areas and shrubs and more dry lands. so this give you a pletora of more than 14 types of vegetation , for me is orgiastic all this undestand flora, is like a climax , is total sex for mi mind , i was having fun undestanding jalisco , now i get this , well is big , rainy seasom is beggining there it have like diferent peak the seasom there for area below 800 mettes are 3 peak the rainy seasom from may to october sometimes november if huracan come from the atlantic, then a rest of a month and the cold front beging to bring rain all front cold bring rain here and sometime snow in higher part more of 2800-3100 meters. so this give you january and febrary for few mushrooms that appear as dung lover and wood lover not active of course well maybe some gym. then a rest and in end of april -may few rains and finally at the end of may all is flow . in higher area is a mark station in some places and a more long in other the sierra have crazy microclimate, the sierra run in a north-south position , this act as a condenser and trapp all the rain given the effect is call shadow so the other side the south wester side is the most dry and the north easth and east side the more humid and fullof vegetation . . the near coast is the port of tampico tamahualipas , and over there are other secret as reserva de la biosfera del cielo but that another story. all my best i will post more i promise
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: cactu]
#7845718 - 01/07/08 09:05 PM (16 years, 25 days ago) |
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why i love mexico , i know only i guess 10% pecent of it , and i can´t wait to know the rest if i can know at leat half of mexico i will be delighted , is so big so amazing . i will edit later are so many pictures than i will let you guys enjoy this one seem to be coroiolopsis polyzona.
 same
 trichaptum perrottetti
 pleurotus djamour var djamour
 landsnorkler you have better pictures of this one .spore print to the right side in one specimen yeah anti shake , forgime ...coprinus or coprinopsis. [ same
 is not shit maybe be some old decating trametes.
 sotano de las huahuas

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 buterfly of la huasteca genus Pteronymia sp.
 same
 i really don´t know any will be esplendit
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 i pass docen of this type of river but i have to stop and take a picture more close here .
 i can imaging indias huastecos bathing here, , you can see the stairs , really i wish that was the stair of my back yard it is for that person that live there i envy him ....

  buterfly of xilitla.?
 maybe Daedalea microsticta
 same
 some lichen and maybe Chiodecton sanguineun
 heliconius charitonius.
 the dance of sex of mechanitis polymnia
 shadow
 Mechanitis polymnia
 Heliconius erato petiverama
 musa paradisiaca
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this is the firt time i see something like this maybe a lichen or a mushroom any help will be great.
 be mi guees 
 conocybe sp maybe lactea
 salvia sp maybe mexicana
 ascomycete fungus jelly cup, so minute
 sorry for the blurr you can see the minute pin of the next mushrooms and a cup there
 this minute coprinus the mayority of this mushrooms only last 2 hours here
 i suspect this to be marasmius was to dry to know for sure
 same
 mostly all this mushrooms where photograft here

 when later in the night a celebration of love was set,

 in the midlle of the night right in new year a marakame a shaman huichol indian made a ceremory and we give thank to all the spirit of all the four point and wish good for all the people, and then party continues-----------

    
    
    
     the next day the rain came and don´t stop for 2 days .
 few more tomorrow . chao
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Edited by cactu (01/08/08 08:57 AM)
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: cactu]
#7847174 - 01/08/08 09:24 AM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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hello all well did left o yeah the rain came and don´t stop for 2 days how i wish i was after that but i have to go .
 we left las pozas amd hit the road
 after a while on the road the rain stop and i try my luck in a local grass field came empty handed but at the end i found this poliporus tricholoma

 night fall and we take a rest next day we are know in the desert areas my radar was on
 since i came here in a personal guest i will only tell you this i was looking for hin .
 my first quest was unsuccesfull but i found a mushroom o boy in plain dessert in a log pycnoporus sanguineus one of the best especiemn i have found and best picture i have of the species, you can now add this to the desert micoflora.

 ok search number 2
 la tercera es la vencida
 coryphanta sp.
 i forgot sorry maybe i can put name later
 and this one too

 when you found cactus this big of obrogonia or echinocactus,sp, call asiento de suegra here is that you are in a wild desrt not disturbed ,and this give a good felling i was in the right way,
 and si el abuelo peyote was there waiting for me.
 this is my experience but i like to share with you don´t judge me i have a deal with the grand pa.
 do you like to see my yucca knife
 the beuty of mexico is for everybody , also for tourist here are few location if you got lost in the road 

 and more in the road next home

 we are back thank you great spirit , thank you gram misterio. all my best vibration to you all.
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: cactu]
#7847180 - 01/08/08 09:27 AM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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sorry dooble post
Edited by cactu (01/08/08 09:36 AM)
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: cactu]
#7847196 - 01/08/08 09:38 AM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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I like the peyote and the butterfly pictures, butterflies never let me get that close =-O
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: implee]
#7847291 - 01/08/08 10:27 AM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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the trick to get the butterfly , is to go real early in the morning , since they heat their body with the sun ,are more, slow to reaction a that time, but you still have to approach with caution i try many times but i got some of then , others are too shy to share, and bird i need a better camera with a telecopic zoom glad you like it , i realy enjoy it. i can not put all my pictures but i have a real good time there, learn a lot,
all my best ...
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: cactu]
#7848184 - 01/08/08 02:16 PM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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That little yellow mushroom is probably Bolbitius rather than Conocybe, but I can't say for sure.
Wow, beautiful butterflies!!! They let you get really close!
Oooo, that little stemmed polypore with the hair is fucking crazy!! Woah!
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: CureCat]
#7848288 - 01/08/08 02:35 PM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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-That little yellow mushroom is probably Bolbitius rather than Conocybe, but I can't say for sure.
I GUEES YOU are totally right , i have observe that bolbitius tend to be more big and less conic , this mushrooms only last few hours or 1, i left two and come back and was notting
-Wow, beautiful butterflies!!! They let you get really close!
now you know another of mi passion buttlerfly , you will see many post like this from me , but maybe i will have to post it in some place else well see if i can still find mushrooms there.
-Oooo, that little stemmed polypore with the hair is fucking crazy!! Woah! here are very commond alan also point that to me, for me are very commond , i guees you will call it frensh poliporus, in david aurora books mushrooms demystified, i do´n´t remenber .
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Re: DESTINATION UNKNOW .............................. [Re: cactu]
#7848843 - 01/08/08 04:25 PM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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Nice Cactu! Your threads are worth waiting for on my slow connection.
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