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[CureCat]

Oh rad. The blue Lepiotoid things remind me of the two collections of blue "Lepiotas" I will be sequencing soon. Even the supernatant was easter egg blue during the extraction process.
Some of the blue "Lepiotas" actually turn blue as they age, but are not blue when they are immature. I am not sure whether it occurs as a result of tissue damage or not.

[Alan Rockefeller]

Cortinarius violaceous by Debbie V, from this post. Found in Jackson State Forest, Mendocino County, California.







Leptonia sp., photo by natashadak in Novato, Marin Co., California

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[greenie]

did i understand u correctly allan? all mushrooms in australia are blue??? why? Awesome pictures by the way. take care.

[omentheduck]

very nice pics! thanks for sharing them with us!

[Bobcat]

did i understand u correctly allan? all mushrooms in australia are blue??? why? Awesome pictures by the way. take care.

no they are not.

But those pics rock! And go to show that just cause they are blue don't mean ya should go and eat 'em! lol.

[madsick]

all poison right?

[warriorsoul]

very nice!
I've heard that blue is the rarest colour in nature.:bow:

[Freaky]

This is a great thread! Blue beauties indeed!

Here is one I found a while back and has been posted on Topia before.

[flipp diggity]

great examples thank you for sharing alan:bow:

[bluelou]

bluelou checking in here haha!!!

Right on time for some of the coolest shroom pics
ive seen in a long time,WHAT A COLOR BLUE!!!!!!!!

GREAT FINDS.....excellent pics just mystical an lushesssss!
TO bad we couldnt eat them ahhhhhhh hahaha?

THey KILL our poor cubies in color,brused ,beaten an all
they never get that BLUE waaaaaaooooooo!!!!!!!!!

[Alan Rockefeller]

TO bad we couldnt eat them ahhhhhhh hahaha?

Joe Ammerati, the Cortinarius expert told me in email last week that he didn't know of any poisonings from purple Cortinarius mushrooms. There are so many species of purple corts that it is not recommended to eat them. The blue Mycenas are likely to have the mycotoxin muscarine. Hard to say what is in the blue Leptonias, they probably wouldn't taste that good anyway. There is some possibility that the blue cup fungi would be edible, those usually aren't known to be toxic.

[eastwood]

Wow!Stunning pictures.:eusa_clap

[shroom_seeker]

Those are some beautiful pics Alan, thx for sharing.
Here is a picture I took last year of my favorite blue mushroom, the Lactarius indigo. This baby makes a mad omelette, turning your eggs blue.
http://mycotopia.net...=1&d=1209970385

Joe Ammerati, the Cortinarius expert told me in email last week that he didn't know of any poisonings from purple Cortinarius mushrooms.

I met Joe today @ Mushroom Maynia :headbang:

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[DarkLestor]

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Here is a picture I took last year of my favorite blue mushroom, the Lactarius indigo. This baby makes a mad omelette, turning your eggs blue. ...

sweet, love to try that:pirate:

[Alan Rockefeller]

The other day I saw that Ian Dodd posted these pics of Entoloma hochstetteri from Swans Crossing, NSW Australia on mushroomobserver.org:

[warriorsoul]

[Alan Rockefeller]

Blue Cortinarius from Ian Dodd, from Swans Crossing, NSW Australia, from mushroomobserver.org

[Alan Rockefeller]

I sent this thread to Tom Volk and asked what that blue rust is in pic # 4 is.

He ID'd it as a Pulcherricium caeruleum!

http://botit.botany....i/july2000.html

He also says that this thread is really cool and the blue mushrooms are the same color as his hair right now.


I would love to cultivate Pulcherricium caeruleum, it would be a lot of fun to have it on logs or in wood chips in the back yard. I wonder what it looks like in grain jars.


Here is another pic of it by Chris Matherly



One from Flickr:



Some from micologica.net

[Sillycyber]

Those look amazing! Period the end. Finding some of those would yield plenty of satisfaction.

[Alan Rockefeller]

Steve Axford, the photographer who took these pictures has joined mushroomobserver recently and he has been posting some mindblowing photos.

















More of his observations are here:

http://mushroomobser...servations/1293

Here are the fungi photos on his website. They are truly outstanding:

http://steveaxford.s...g Things/356578