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[BuckarooBanzai]

Damn...this thread is less than 420 minutes old? How many of you have hit it more than three times already? I know I have...

Do we need a 12 step program here? Mycotopiates anonymous, anyone?

"Hi, I'm Buckaroo, and I'm addicted to Mycotopia..."

[Pedestrian]

Took down the pic..just c.y.a.

Pfft.... Why?

Just taking away from the knowledge base IMHO.

[srgtm1a]

you guys are great :)
Im hiking up tomarrow to the spot.
There were hundreds of these.
Thanks again..
Took down the pic..just c.y.a.
Peace
Look foward to talking with ya all.
GraviTy

Don't be too worried about posting pics.....especially of mushrooms you find in the wild. I guess it is your decision in the end, but leaving the pics really help other people with the same questions. If you want, you can send me the pics and I'll post them for you.

[Pedestrian]

Thanks for reposting the pic man.

What is the lifespan of an individual mushroom? and does the same area flower(for lack of a better word) many times or only once a season?
Thanks

Thats a tough question to answer as all mushrooms are different. Also, the actual mushroom fruit is just a very small part of a large mycelial network. The lifespan of the mycelia can be a few months to many years. The lifespan of the fruitbodies is much much shorter... maybe only lasting a day or two once matured for the smaller exotic species. I have seen larger fruiting strains (i.e. Psilocybe Cubeisis) last for almost a week if not in an area exposed to direct sunlight. Once the cap matures and it drops spores its pretty much downhill from there as the fruits job is done. Im sure there are other strains that last much longer like some pure woodlovers, but dont have much experience with those.

Chances are pretty good you'll find fruits in an area again and again.. So long as you are careful where and how you walk so you dont harm the patches.

Happy hunting.

-Ped

[Hippie3]

Psilocybe coprophila is the only true Psilocybe species occurring in the Hawaiian
Islands. The species has miniscule amounts of psychoactive compounds and is
generally considered as not hallucinogenic and relatively harmless. The small, dark
reddish brown, viscid pileus is distinctive. It is found commonly in cow dung.

Psilocybe coprophila
no xpert but the stems in your pic, gravity,
appear, from what little i can see,
to be much thicker.
yours look more like cubensis to my eye
but more pix are needed to confirm.

Psilocybe coprophila (Bulliard: Fries) Kummer
Der Führer in die Pilzkunde 71. 1871.
Common Name: none
Pileus
Cap 1.0-2.5 cm broad, at first hemispheric, sometimes with a low umbo at the disc, becoming convex, broadly so in age; margin incurved, in age decurved to occasionally plane, fringed with evanescent whitish scales when young; surface glabrous, subviscid, translucent-striate when young and fresh, hygrophanous; color reddish-brown to dingy yellowish-brown, fading in age; context thin, colored like the cap, unchanging when cut or bruised.
Lamellae
Gills adnate, subdistant, relatively broad, pale grey when young, becoming greyish-brown, finally purple-brown.
Stipe
Stipe 1.5 - 5.0 cm long, 1.0-3.0 mm thick, equal, dry, straight to sometimes curved at the base; surface often squamulose when young, becoming fibrillose, whitish to dingy yellow-brown, not bruising blue; partial veil absent or if present, evanescent leaving fine scales on the young pileus and/or in a superior ring zone.
Spores
Spores 11-14 x 7-9 µm, ellipsoid, smooth; spore print purple-brown.
Habitat
Scattered to clustered on horse and cow dung; fruiting after rains during the winter months.
Edibility
Unknown.
Comments
This small dung dweller is recognized by a sticky, reddish-brown to dull yellowish-brown cap which when young is edged with cottony white fibrils and is typically translucent-striate. Unlike most Psilocybe species, P. coprophila does not bruise or discolor blue, with the exception of a few reports of bluing mycelium. Psilocybe coprophila also differs from most members of the genus in not being hallucinogenic (according to Stamets, it contains neither psilocybin or psilocin). Psilocybe coprophila is most likely to be confused with Stropharia semiglobata, another dung dweller with a viscid cap, but the latter is more yellowish, lacks a translucent striate margin even when young, and has a slimy, not dry stipe. Other mushrooms found on dung include Panaeolus and Coprinus species. Species of Panaeolus can be separated by dry, not viscid caps and distinctive mottled gills, while Coprinus species typically dissolve into an inky liquid in age.

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[Hippie3]

the first pic was misleading.
it is apparently a close-up shot,
a fact you neglected to mention.
http://mycotopia.net...25&d=1145793227

nice trip art.
:bow:
http://mycotopia.net...89&d=1145915132

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