tyler_0_durden said:

I found the right ones I believe. I am coming back from Seattle right now. I think some of them are already bluing. But I want to make sure. They were growing on alder wood chips in a little neighborhood near a park. The chip i recovered from the patch i could not for the life of me break it. Sturdy as hell. They were in dense clusters growing atop each other, and there was purple spores dropped a bit, the gills are light cinnamon brown, stems white (but parts are turning purple), stems themselves seem to be kind of on the thin side, maybe 1/2cm for the biggest specimens i recovered? Maybe a little bigger than that. The stems are long, like prolly 3-4" at least, and they grow curvy. caps look like they're no more than 2.5 inches across, most are more like 1" or 1 1/2". The caps themselves seem to have become like a deerhide brown color, I'm not sure how old they are but there were some healthy full growns it seemed like. They are very wavy and feel like a damp glasses cloth, they seemed mostly dry, since it hasnt rained much today...this is why I'm guessing they were like this? If cyans miss a day of rain will they get "weaker"? I left the babies. Ill get pics up soon. I still need to take a spore print, what's the best way to go about doing that??

Pics:


Chips...this felt like i was trying to break a piece of bone. IMPOSSIBLE.




cluster. notice the "purpling" on stems near where i made the cut, lower middle.




A few loose guys after i put 'em in the bag.

I mean, they're purpling when i touch them. It's not more of a blue as it is a purple, i dont know if its cause they've had a dry day today?

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Just cut the stem from the cap and place it on a piece of paper and leave it for a few hours.

The Bad News: From the pictures they do not appear to be Cyans.
The Good News: I'm not an expert. Wait for the print and an ID from an expert.
PS: Post a seperate thread for an ID in the future. If they turn out then you can post them in this one.

Theylikethatshit said:

they dont look like cyans

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tyler_0_durden said:

Pics:


Chips...this felt like i was trying to break a piece of bone. IMPOSSIBLE.




cluster. notice the "purpling" on stems near where i made the cut, lower middle.

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emik1 said:

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Yo mang. I think i met your crew at the ramon. Good to see ya here mang!


Ya gotta try some L man. I think its weird that you guys tag it all the time but dont drop.

Soularize said:

Wow, well I don't know where the hell people like Psilo and others who live in WA are finding these flushes, because I just checked one of what I would consider the most prominent patches in the entire Seattle area and could not find a SINGLE pin. And believe me, if there were even just a few pinners up in this area I would've spotted them. I hardly even saw any Russulas up. Soooo, this leads me to wonder if whether it isn't yet cold enough, or if it still isn't wet enough. Either way I say it'll be a solid week or longer before we really see any action in the Seattle area.

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psilocyboid said:

Mid. to late October is my bet.  A bit earlier for the artificially watered locals.  See you when the rain dances on the floating leaves of color.

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