Thanks for the site and advice! I'm just waiting for a few more fungi I want to look at under the scope and then, hopefully, I'll put it through that key
I've borrowed one from a friend, It's an immersion oil scope (at it's highest magnification). I've calibrated the reticle and tried looking at a couple of fungi. I also bought some immersion oil which I've used successfully and a red dye; I've never used that.
cheers! I've just uploaded a spore print photo. I put sticky tape on top of the spore print so can't get to them, would it be possible to just use a gill fragment do you know?
This is aesthetic! You should take the opportunity to study the features of this mushroom! It is probably just a Deconica species. If you take a spore print on tin foil and then take a glass microscope slide and snag some spores, you can can a better idea of the species.
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Thanks for the site and advice! I'm just waiting for a few more fungi I want to look at under the scope and then, hopefully, I'll put it through that key
Try this one:
http://www.entoloma.nl/html/psilocybeeng...
What shape are the spores?
I've got a free key to genus level but no key for Deconica I don't think
I've borrowed one from a friend, It's an immersion oil scope (at it's highest magnification). I've calibrated the reticle and tried looking at a couple of fungi. I also bought some immersion oil which I've used successfully and a red dye; I've never used that.
Taking a spore print does the following:
Tells me the color of the print
With a microscope it will also tell you:
The spore shape and length/width
Do you have access to a scope or plan on owning one some day?
cheers! I've just uploaded a spore print photo. I put sticky tape on top of the spore print so can't get to them, would it be possible to just use a gill fragment do you know?
This is aesthetic! You should take the opportunity to study the features of this mushroom! It is probably just a Deconica species. If you take a spore print on tin foil and then take a glass microscope slide and snag some spores, you can can a better idea of the species.
Compare to Deconica montana.