These are of the revived strain: http://www.sporeworks.com/images/newest%20tamp/closetamp.jpg http://www.sporeworks.com/images/newest%20tamp/tampgood.jpg http://www.sporeworks.com/images/newest%20tamp/tamp1.jpg http://www.sporeworks.com/images/newtamp4.jpg http://www.sporeworks.com/images/newtamp1.jpg http://www.sporeworks.com/images/newest%20tamp/tamptall.jpg http://www.sporeworks.com/images/newest%20tamp/tamptall2.jpg

Some Pictures of Tampanensis Sclerotia: http://www.sporeworks.com/images/sclerotiaharvest1.jpg http://www.sporeworks.com/images/sclerotiaharvest2.jpg

Here's picture of the old strain that was cultured too much: http://www.sporeworks.com/images/comote.jpg http://www.sporeworks.com/images/comote2.jpg http://www.sporeworks.com/images/comote3.jpg

And here's a link to workman's tampanensis page: http://www.sporeworks.com/tampanen.html

Once again, Workman did a great job at saving a strain from almost being lost(he actually was the only one able to obtain any spores from the degenerating strain, and had been cleaning up that strain alot).

Ripper

[This message has been edited by Doktor Dung (edited June 14, 2000).]

By weight, I think they might be MORE potent. There are about sixty shrooms there. Since there are usually a half a dozen or so C.trops. growing off one medium pattie, and only 1 or 2 good size (3-4inch cap)P. cubensis growing from one medium pattie. I figure that 6 regular size (5-6 inch stalk) C.trops should make you trip about as hard as you would off of 1 or 2 P.cubensis caps (weighs out to about 1.5g).

This, at first, seems like some F**ked up thinking, but....

In my experience boiling seems to make your brew less potent. So, if 60 boiled shrooms (actually, the extract)made 7 people trip like they would off of 1.5g of properly dried cubensis, then they would be more potent by weight.

The pattie count may not seem right to those of you who have never had much experience in shroom hunting, but patties (in the wild) seem to only be capable of producing one flush of so many fruits (depending on it's size). And "no" I've never weighed the C.trops. Both times I've harvested them, we boiled them and drank it. Probably should've kept some, but I had lent my dehydrator to a friend. And wet weighing isn't that accurate anyways. If I go to that field again this year, I'll do a more comprehensive bioassayal.

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When were those photographs taken????!

i found less than half a dozen tropicalis' in early october of '99, in sarasota florida..

i think i remember you talking about them in the mushroom hunting forum around then

i ate them not even knowing what species they were at the time, just knowing that they stained blue was good enough for me, just the fact that they didnt have a veil like a cube threw me off a bit.

And Sclorch, the reason you notice most cowpies only producing one flush, is because youre picking them out of the dung, not CUTTING them out of the dung.. ..cut them out of the ground with either scissors or a really long thumbnail. When you YANK a shroom out of the ground, its mycellium is destroyed by infection. so cut them out leaveing behind a good half inch of stem leftover and them the shrooms will be back in a day or two .

Workman, the answer to your question i believe lies inside the Color of the Cap. If i am correct,.. there are differences between cope cyans and cope trops.

have a good day