XPost: alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk   
   From: mimus99@gmail.com   
      
   On Sat, 19 Oct 2013 14:47:40 -0600, §ñühwö£f wrote:   
      
   > mimus wrote:   
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   >> On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 10:14:35 -0600, §ñühwö£f wrote:   
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   >>> mimus wrote:   
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   >>>> On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 10:03:51 -0600, §ñühwö£f wrote:   
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   >>>>> happy zombie jebus on the cross wrote:   
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   >>>>>> On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 19:34:24 +0000 (UTC), mimus    
   >>>>>> wrote:   
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   >>>>>>> On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:23:17 +0100, happy zombie jebus on the   
   >>>>>>> cross wrote:   
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   >>>>>>>> On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 00:54:41 +0000 (UTC), mimus   
   >>>>>>>>  wrote:   
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   >>>>>>>>> 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.)   
   >   
   > Yikes!   
      
   "Preface to the Second Edition" needed.   
      
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > Spore prints and microscope are mandatory for any experimenter.   
   >   
   >> Crossposted to anm for checking.   
   >>   
   >> The real news is we're heading into Armillariella mellea and Pleurotus   
   >> ostreatus season. Yum.   
   >>   
   > Best to stick to the store bought stuff. Except we occasionally collect   
   > morels after a forest fire. Store bought is still easier.   
      
   No way. Those two species are common, fruit in quantity, and choice, A.   
   mellea in Fall, P. ostreatus (which is like a god among edibles) from the   
   first frost until the bugs come back out in Spring (they like it too),   
   any time it's warm and rainy during the Winter.   
      
   A. mellea is a perfect equivalent to store-bought Agaricus bisporus in   
   every respect. But free. And fruits on the same stump every Fall, so you   
   can go back and grab it again there next year. And the caps which occur   
   in great numbers together spore-print (white) on the lower caps, which is   
   convenient.   
      
   P. ostreatus is in a class of its own, unmistakeable, hand-sized (and   
   even -shaped, although "flipper" might be the better word), aromatic,   
   meaty, and if you slice and bread and deep-fry it and serve it with   
   ketchup or tartar-sauce and ask people what they think it is, they'll   
   guess a sea-food every time.   
      
   (The only other mushroom I can think of even close in terms of esculent   
   quality to P. ostreatus is Clitocybe nuda, which is quite different and   
   in a class of _its_ own--you can make a truly "Heavenly Blue" mushroom-   
   soup with it--but which is unfortunately not common in the Ohio River   
   Valley.)   
      
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