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   From: mimus99@gmail.com   
      
   On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 10:14:35 -0600, §ñühwö£f wrote:   
      
   > mimus wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 10:03:51 -0600, §ñühwö£f wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> happy zombie jebus on the cross wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 19:34:24 +0000 (UTC), mimus    
   >>>> wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:23:17 +0100, happy zombie jebus on the cross   
   >>>>> wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 00:54:41 +0000 (UTC), mimus    
   >>>>>> wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Is this damned newsgroup on?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> on what, drugs? concidering the age of the populace and the hippie   
   >>>>>> content, more than likely.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> We're all too old for drugs.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Except caffeine and nicotine and pot and booze and--   
   >>>>   
   >>>> its almost that time of year for the magic mushrooms to make thier   
   >>>> appearance.   
   >>>   
   >>> Its "mad season" here. But I cant be arsed to dig out my mushroom   
   >>> books and a microscope and do spore prints just to get silly for an   
   >>> hour.   
   >>   
   >> Purple spores good. Rusty-brown death. You're on.   
   >   
   > Well since you want to discus mycology...from memory it was "black   
   > spores okey dokey" anything else" extreme caution. All panaleous species   
   > have black spores. *Some* psylocibin stems turn blue when you break   
   > them. And those 'shrooms with the tubular structures under the cap   
   > instead of gills are Boletus, not psychoactive but probably edible. THe   
   > Amanitas are the ones you really have to avoid. Exception being Amanita   
   > Muscaria the classic won with red cap and white flecks on it. Slightly   
   > toxic tho...   
      
   Well, we're discussing Little Brown Mushrooms (LBMs) here, basically,   
   which means the real ringer to look out for in Fall and on wood is   
   Galerina autumnalis, which has rusty-brown spores (every shroomer should   
   know Galerina anyway). (The first field-guide published in the US   
   reportedly listed Galerina as "edible and choice", which is totally cool,   
   making you wonder how many people died from that.)   
      
   Most of the Psilocybes have purple-brown spores; you're right about   
   Panaeolus' generally black spores, although see Panaeolina, but they're   
   not really Fall or forest species, most being Spring and Summer grass-   
   dwellers--the ringer there to watch for is the quite beautiful Conocybe   
   filaris, actually a wood(y mulch)-dweller, but easily confused for the   
   psychoactive Conocybes in mixed medium, especially since filaris' very   
   showy ring fucking falls right fucking off.   
      
   Crossposted to anm for checking.   
      
   The real news is we're heading into Armillariella mellea and Pleurotus   
   ostreatus season. Yum.   
      
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