XPost: alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk   
   From: mimus99@gmail.com   
      
   On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:00:22 -0600, §ñühwö£f wrote:   
      
   > mimus wrote:   
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   >> On Sat, 19 Oct 2013 14:47:40 -0600, §ñühwö£f wrote:   
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   >>> 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   
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   >>>>>>>> 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.)   
   >>   
   >>   
   > I bow to your superior knowledge.   
   >   
   >    
      
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