OP: i think you are spot on with your guess of p. strictipes

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can strictipes really vary this much?

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Senor_Hongos said:

Cubensis cake smells like dried cubensis only stronger.  I assume you have smelled cubensis mushrooms.  In other words, kinda like a box of cornmeal.  I'm a sniffer, not a taster.  I smell many mushrooms that I pick just because I like to sniff things.  This year, after finding Pluteus cyanopus, I really began to sniff in earnest, trying to detect the subtle differences between mushrooms.  As a result I can detect odors now I couldn't earlier in the season.

I rarely eat any mushrooms I find either.  I am more into the science/taxonomy/photography than mycophagy.  I guessing sniffing mushrooms isn't for everyone so I won't recommend it.  However, it is one of the ways we can tell which species a mushroom is.

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weiliiiiiii said:

Senor_Hongos said:

Cubensis cake smells like dried cubensis only stronger.  I assume you have smelled cubensis mushrooms.  In other words, kinda like a box of cornmeal.  I'm a sniffer, not a taster.  I smell many mushrooms that I pick just because I like to sniff things.  This year, after finding Pluteus cyanopus, I really began to sniff in earnest, trying to detect the subtle differences between mushrooms.  As a result I can detect odors now I couldn't earlier in the season.

I rarely eat any mushrooms I find either.  I am more into the science/taxonomy/photography than mycophagy.  I guessing sniffing mushrooms isn't for everyone so I won't recommend it.  However, it is one of the ways we can tell which species a mushroom is.

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I would have to disagree with you Mr. hongos, i have found several mushrooms which smell identical to weilii but are not.

I use my nose when i hunt weilii or oysters, i always smell oysters 50-100 yards before i see them.

WIth weilii you have to know the smell, the reason for this is when your hunting weilii under pine straw you cant always see them but will be able to smell them easily.

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That's good information, weiliiiii.  But, no, you can't disagree with me if I agree with you. 

When I said "one of the ways" I meant in conjuction with other characteristics.  It is one feature, not the whole thing.  In that way, it's like tasting a mushroom.  If a mushroom is suspected of being a Gym and it isn't bitter, it isn't a Gym.  There may be exceptions to that but I can't think of any.

I've never been able to smell a mushroom for more than 20 feet.  Most of the time it is the mycelium I am smelling.  I read the Garlic Mycena and Anise Clitocybe can be smelt before seen in most cases.

Senor_Hongos said:

weiliiiiiii said:

Senor_Hongos said:

Cubensis cake smells like dried cubensis only stronger.  I assume you have smelled cubensis mushrooms.  In other words, kinda like a box of cornmeal.  I'm a sniffer, not a taster.  I smell many mushrooms that I pick just because I like to sniff things.  This year, after finding Pluteus cyanopus, I really began to sniff in earnest, trying to detect the subtle differences between mushrooms.  As a result I can detect odors now I couldn't earlier in the season.

I rarely eat any mushrooms I find either.  I am more into the science/taxonomy/photography than mycophagy.  I guessing sniffing mushrooms isn't for everyone so I won't recommend it.  However, it is one of the ways we can tell which species a mushroom is.

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I would have to disagree with you Mr. hongos, i have found several mushrooms which smell identical to weilii but are not.

I use my nose when i hunt weilii or oysters, i always smell oysters 50-100 yards before i see them.

WIth weilii you have to know the smell, the reason for this is when your hunting weilii under pine straw you cant always see them but will be able to smell them easily.

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That's good information, weiliiiii.  But, no, you can't disagree with me if I agree with you. 

When I said "one of the ways" I meant in conjuction with other characteristics.  It is one feature, not the whole thing.  In that way, it's like tasting a mushroom.  If a mushroom is suspected of being a Gym and it isn't bitter, it isn't a Gym.  There may be exceptions to that but I can't think of any.

I've never been able to smell a mushroom for more than 20 feet.  Most of the time it is the mycelium I am smelling.  I read the Garlic Mycena and Anise Clitocybe can be smelt before seen in most cases.

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