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Psilocybe subaeruginosa
Beautiful smooth broad conical caps with broad umbos about 45mm wide. Most of these mushroom caps had dark greenish centres overlaid on a beautiful burnt orange base. Some had a thin line of membranous tissue around the margin and some margins were tinged blue. Gills were a pale brown colour and the stipe covered with white soft fibres. Some of the mushrooms showed a blue stain in the lower third. Spore print was brown.
Wood chip mulch
There were several other species of mushrooms growing in this mulch heap but these stood out - the blue-green stain was quite remarkable. The very mature mushrooms were almost black with flat caps. A similar looking species P. azurescens - found in the US http://www.accurateinformationmedia.com/...
Spotted on May 31, 2012
Submitted on Jun 2, 2012
8 Comments
And your're a champion ID researcher. What a rich color - it makes me think of this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Golden...
Martin, thanks for looking at this mushroom anyway - you got me interested enough to sit-up until 12 am trying to ID it. You've got a Psilocybe too !!.
thanks everyone - I had a hard time identifying this. I think there are many different looking specimens in this genus.
nice one .. like a baked cake in the second one !!
Leuba and argybee, you make some persuasive points, I presumed the gill pattern is similar and the stipe although thinner has a fibrous surface. I agree with your ID and am still learning to be more observant.
martin, here's my spotting of a Xerula sp
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/861...
I can't see the similarity -
This one had a shorter thicker brownish stipe. The gills arrangement and attachment look different to that in a Xerula and the blue stain is very distinctive. Also, Xerula have a white spore print and his one had a brown spore print - will add photo
These are a fantastic colour.
I can't see it martin.. what do you think looks the same?
Leuba, this seems similar to Xerula genus http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/107... in some respects although the species is clearly different.