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Offlinegila129
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did I find and print a new species?
    #7950659 - 01/29/08 02:40 PM (16 years, 3 days ago)

Hello shroomery members,

This is my first post. I currently live as a homeless man in the desert of Gila Bend Arizona. I am camping on an abandoned cattle ranch. Over one month ago I was inspecting cattle dung for dung inhabiting mushrooms and mycelium. I found several pieces of cattle droppings run with a ryzomorphic (sp) mycelium. The mycelium is white and bruises blue. It is very ropey as it digs into the soil below the cattle dropping. The mycelium has a pronounced “honey dew” which is the amber waste excreted by metabolic processes. I collected several of these cattle droppings and moved them closer to my camp. I introduced extra water, enclosed them in humidity tents, (clean garbage bags) and laid a casting layer atop them. The temperatures here are 30-40 deg. F. at night and 60 in the day. One of the cattle droppings began to fruit. The first signs where “footballs” 1/8 of an inch wide and ¼ of an inch tall. They are a medium brown color fading to an orange and eventually grey blue upon maturation. The matured mushroom appearance is between ½ of an inch and 4 inches in height and the cap varies from ¼ of an inch to 1 ¼ of an inch in diameter. Most specimens are 3 inches in height. The cap is very fragile and has a truly translucent appearance in which one can see the gills and purple/black spores from the top looking through, it is so translucent in fact one can read type through it as if you held it over a book you could read the book through the cap. The cap has a suttle “nipple” retaining the brown color. The cap has pronounced ribs or verticle lines running from its center “nipple” to the edge of the cap. The cap is not wavy or round instead it makes a half circle betwine the gills facing inward twards the nipple. The cap is 1/128 of an inch in width. I can not stress the fragility of this mushroom enough. I have taken several spore prints of the species.

I know of no other Psilocybe of this size that shares the characteristics of this species. First, it fruiting temp 30 deg. F. to the low 40’s at night and low 60’s for the high of the day. Second, it directly inhabits and fruits atop dung. Thirdly, the fragile nature of the species cap makes it hard to find and properly identify, simply a raindrop or small gust of wind breaks the mushroom’s cap, at which point it “liquefies” into the substrate. Forth, it does not form a “stone or potato“, I have searched all the soils surrounding the mycelium. It looks most similar to P. Mexicana or P. Boehemia (I have looked at most pictures online trying to identify it) however differs in to many ways to be that species. I have named this potential new species Psilocybe Iansensis, after myself.

This talk of new species, why? The niche ecosystem the mushrooms inhabit. Winter temps 30 F. at night 60 F. in the day, summer temps 80-90 F. at night and 110+ F. in the day. Low or zero humidity, a poor climate for fruit bodies. Perhaps the mycelium stays subterranean for years or decades before sporeulating. The process of cellular replication after years or decades in this type of brutal climate and the amount or replications between sporulating fruit bodies may lead to mutations that carry over through generations and give us a new species, “P. Iansensis”. Also the fragility of the fruit bodied itself shows me it is a poor sporulator. The process of cellular duplication repeating for years until certain rare climatic changes cause a fruit body to form and spores are deposited. I believe the spices reproduces by nature dividing it at the cellular level, not from spores.

As I stated before I have fallen on hard times and have no money to submit the culture to culture banks or spore retailers. I can send a whole or partial spore print to you for your examination. I dislike to mention money as lack of it has and is hindering me from my full studies and furthering my one scientific research. However I’m currently homeless and living in a tent. I need some money for hiking boots and a better tent. I am a screenwriter for feature length films and am writing a non-fiction book on mushroom cultivation, the fabrication of instrumentation to be utilized in a biosynthetic laboratory and advantageous biosynthetic approaches to bioactive target compounds and compounds used in synthetic approaches to target compounds. I need some money for copy writes, registrations and postal correspondences with studios, agents and possibly publishers. If you would like a print for possibly virgin mycological studies please send a SASE and $10 for a small spore print or $20 for a large spore print. Please only send money orders.

Please help identify and preserve a new Psilocybe species and help a homeless man at the same time. Please direct any questions to iantomham@yahoo.com.

If you are not interested would you pass along the names/organizations of people who are or may be able to help?

Thank You

Ian Thomas Hamilton
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Gila Bend, Arizona 85337 P.S. I have no camera however if you send one I will take pictures and send it back if you include a SASE for the camera. I’m not a thief.


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Re: did I find and print a new species? [Re: gila129]
    #7950959 - 01/29/08 03:43 PM (16 years, 3 days ago)

:goodluck:


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Re: did I find and print a new species? [Re: gila129]
    #7950960 - 01/29/08 03:44 PM (16 years, 3 days ago)

You have not found a Psilocybe, but instead, one of the inactive, deliquescing mushrooms, such as Coprinellus, Coprinopsis, or Parasola (all previously lumped in the genus Coprinus).

They like dung too!


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Re: did I find and print a new species? [Re: CureCat]
    #7954307 - 01/30/08 01:43 AM (16 years, 3 days ago)

Looks like your staying homeless if this is the business plan :bye:


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Re: did I find and print a new species? [Re: farmer88]
    #7954325 - 01/30/08 01:52 AM (16 years, 3 days ago)

Let's be respectful.


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Re: did I find and print a new species? [Re: CureCat]
    #7955149 - 01/30/08 11:20 AM (16 years, 2 days ago)

Yea probably Parasola.

I haven't heard of anyone finding cubensis or copes in Arizona, if you are set on finding something in the dung you should focus your attention on Panaeolus species.


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Re: did I find and print a new species? [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
    #7955202 - 01/30/08 11:40 AM (16 years, 2 days ago)

that was a cool read.


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Re: did I find and print a new species? [Re: gila129]
    #7958352 - 01/30/08 10:46 PM (16 years, 2 days ago)

In Arizona a person looking for psychoactive mushrooms might hope to bump into Panaeolus subbalteatus and Gymnopilus spectabilis. Two more to consider possibly finding are G. liquiritiae and G. luteofolius. The last three mentioned require more advanced knowledge to identify correctly. And if a person has not studied mushrooms too much, then they are all probably hard to identify correctly.


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Re: did I find and print a new species? [Re: CureCat]
    #7963434 - 02/01/08 04:59 AM (16 years, 21 hours ago)

Quote:

CureCat said:
Let's be respectful.



Come on cc, how bout we respect ourselves. This post looks bogus to me.


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Re: did I find and print a new species? [Re: gila129]
    #7964136 - 02/01/08 09:57 AM (16 years, 16 hours ago)

Psilocybe iansensis? It's not a comet. You don't name new mushroom species after yourself. Also, freshen up your Latin.

Best regards


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Re: did I find and print a new species? [Re: farmer88]
    #7964138 - 02/01/08 09:58 AM (16 years, 16 hours ago)

whats an intelligent man like yoourself doing without a home?


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Re: did I find and print a new species? [Re: snoot]
    #7966851 - 02/01/08 09:48 PM (16 years, 4 hours ago)

sounds like it's by choice.

or he's a loon...


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Re: did I find and print a new species? [Re: PinheadX]
    #14269782 - 04/10/11 10:34 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

inspiring..sorry if this thread is too old to post to.. but I'm thinking of leaving home too and if he can do it, so can i

man look at those temperature differentials...
:leaving:  :mrt:


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Re: did I find and print a new species? [Re: liali]
    #14269799 - 04/10/11 10:38 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

I guess mr t was there because he might be/have been scamming..so he pities the fool who might lose a camera...heh


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Re: did I find and print a new species? [Re: liali]
    #14270425 - 04/11/11 01:30 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

I would love to see this mushroom in person and take pictures of it!  I live about 1 hour from you.  If you are serious feel free to PM me.  This would be much more credible if I verified it and also took pictures to post along with it.  Good Luck!!


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Re: did I find and print a new species? [Re: gila129]
    #14270452 - 04/11/11 01:30 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

This thread has been closed.

Reason:
This is not the "how to move to the desert to become a homeless loon" forum and this years old topic certainly didn't need an off topic necro, so let's keep it fresh and on topic, ok?


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