JamesChappy said:

Percept said:

So, I plan to head to a Rhododendron garden tomorrow, I figured it would be a good place to find some cyanas. Any thoughts? This'll be my first hunt and I understand the inherent risks and will be sure to post an ID here for confirmation of any possible psychedelic 'shrooooooom I find.

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If you're planning on going to the rhododendron garden in Portland, I wouldn't bother. I walked through there a week ago and found a whole lot of jack shit. It's a beautiful walk though.

If you do find anything or if that IS the garden you're going to PM me...

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Nope, think north WA (don't want to break any rules here.)

Anyway the place was closed but there was a huge trail and we ended up walking through the forest (not sure if we were trespassing,) we only found some poisonous lookalikes and literally five or six shaggy parasols (there were a few whos cap hadn't opened as well.) There was another species with a closed cap that I couldn't ID but I knew looked SO DAMN FAMILIER. Oh well. I don't have a car so I may hop off the city bus tomorrow and hunt around my area, we HAVE to have some cyans, the weather and habitat is perfect. Meh, it'll be my first success if I find some though.

Cool site by the way, lots of info, even got on on my iPod in Seattle to ID a lone shroom in Fremont (not good shroom, to bad)

Oh but while I'm thinking about it I did see a cyan (picked, abbused and bruised) on the way to the EMP. (Not giving any info but that's all the luck I've had after probably 7 and a half hours total of hunting over the weekend.)

Oh well, sorry for the long read, you know how it feels to go off on these tangents of thought.

jet li said:

Don't be so sure, unless you've found them before.

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coolboarderguy said:

I found this interesting article on fir and alder decay rate. Should give some hints on why alder is good

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pnwpicker420 said:

haha found some more great looking cyans, in a completely different location, literally on my way to class...i showed them to my geology class no-one believed that i knew what i was talking about. my teacher was asking me not to eat them and i was soo close to just popping them...(i hadnt eaten anything yet and it was like 9 the morning, so i decided against it). anyways it turned into a whole class discussion and made me realize how fucking retarded most people are. Not one person in my class knew anything about mushrooms. what pissed me off the most was that my teacher was trying to tell me that she knew enough to say i shouldnt eat them...what a dumb bitch...
sorry i had to vent...
anyways heres a pic of one of the cyans...i found about 4 this size...

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As you get older, you will learn that people are even more retarded than you thought. 

I doubt I would be taking cyans to class though and showing them off.  Probably not a good move.