This year's rainy season has been a bit confusing. Perhaps Al Gore was onto something ;) The last few days have been very sunny and dry, unusual for this area. I feel like I'm being followed, because I normally do not have to worry about my shadow tailing me...
All the spots that produced heavy flushes for my buddies and me are yet fruitless, but mycelium is abundant so we all know it'll take just one more heavy rain to launch everybody into caramel-capped ecstasy. But the other day, on a tip from a FOAF, I went for a stroll in an area I hadn't checked before.
To my left, a huge flush of an indicator species, a prolific woodlover that I see everywhere, sometimes following P. Cyans in the same spot. I knew I was close. Then... something on the ground. Like hundreds of tiny eggs waiting to hatch, THERE THEY WERE!
Clearly, there are no mature specimens yet, but just a single day-long rain episode like Washington is known for (like the kind we HAVEN'T had in months) will make this entire patch push 'em out like jiffy-pop. Enjoy, and bask in the shared vibes. :heart: Keep hunting, especially in areas that can stay moist during the day. For now, I'll enjoy the cloudless day and lie in the grass. :rasta:
They come with the cold weather. I have been finding dozens of small patches in the city, and I am only photographing them. Several in the arboretum have already been gang-raped and the mycelia torn away formthe geround meaning the spots where people ripped them from the earth without using scissors will not grow back next near,.
I have already made several posts here of my finds in the arboretum. I was letting them grow to have nice photos of full sized shrooms, but someone is going every day and taking all of them.
Here are two photographs of Psilocybe cyanescens
http://mycotopia.net...=1&d=1224533762http://mycotopia.net...=1&d=1224533762And a small cluster of the beautiful usually reddish, but this time orangish Stropharia aurantiaca
http://mycotopia.net...=1&d=1224533762And a very bright red one which is my favorite color on a non Amanita shroom.
http://mycotopia.net...=1&d=1224534700mjshroomer
As for the cyans, they are up. The cold brings them up with the morning dew.
Lawn sprionklers and garden sprinklers also help them to fruit. Under ivy, blackberries, rhodderdendrons, Many types of plants in alder wood chips, alder sawdust, alder steer-co, alder branches, twigs and tems and barks of alder and other mixed hardwoods. they do not grow in cedar as it is too acidity.
