Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

fam strophariaceae - genus psilocybe (bald caps)

fam strophariaceae

Description:

The Strophariaceae are a family of fungi in the order Agaricales. The family contains 18 genera and 1316 species. The species of Strophariaceae have a red-brown to dark brown spore print ("also blue or/and purple shades") , while the spores themselves are smooth and have an apical germ pore. These agarics are also characterized by having a cutis-type pileipellis. Ecologically, all species in this group are saprotrophs, growing on various kinds of decaying organic matter

Habitat:

The genus Stropharia, is mainly a medium to large agaric with a distinct membranous annulus. Spore print-color is generally medium to dark purple-brown, except for a few species that have rusty-brown spores. There is a great deal of variation, however, since this groups as presently delimited is polyphyletic. Members of the core clade of Stropharia are characterized by crystalline acanthocytes among the hyphae that make up the rhizoids at the base of the mushroom. The genus Hypholoma (formerly Naematoloma), is mainly a saprobe on wood and often grows in caespitose clusters. Spore print varies from medium brown to purple brown. These species all share a subcutaneous layer of inflated cells. The genus Pholiota is characterized by a dull brown to cinnamon brown spore print. A well-known edible species is the Japanese Nameko mushroom (Pholiota nameko) The genus Psilocybe is well-known for its psychedelic mushrooms, such as Psilocybe cubensis. The blue-staining hallucinogenic species of Psilocybe and the non-bluing species of this genus are not directly related to one another, making this genus polyphyletic. Unlike most groups within the Strophariaceae, Psilocybe do not have chrysocystidia on the surface of their lamellae.

Notes:

i'm not really sure, therefore i set it with the big "family"-name. It ressembles many already (from me) found species, but has still some to different feature,to let me determine them as one of them. I'm open for suggestions. (this one had dark-spores [to see at the discoloration at the stem just beneath the cap], with the colors of the gills and a little bit light, the underside of the cap has a very nice purple shade.) i suspect it belongs to the genus : psilocybe.

Species ID Suggestions



Sign in to suggest organism ID

12 Comments

MayraSpringmann
MayraSpringmann 11 years ago

Wow!! Fantastic colour blu!!!

AlexKonig
AlexKonig 12 years ago

Hi Ivan Rodriguez, some "keywords" for some informaton about "plasmodial slime molds" "(plasmodial slime / slime mold/ slime mould)" ; "amoebozoa"; "myxogastria"; " Myxomycota (myxomycetes / myxomyceten "; Fruitingbodies ["Aethalium / sporangium { " captillitium / peridium / spore mass / stipe " } / plasmodiocarp / pseudoaethalium"], you can enter those words in the ("), at google or google image, wikipedia or everywhere else !!
----- and a good "slime mold guide" pdf = "An Introduction to the. Morphology and Taxonomy and of Myxomycetes" ( http://www.google.nl/#hl=nl&cp=13&am... ),
----ALSO for everyone, who wants to take a look into "plasmodial slime molds" --> nice picture and easy to understand

lori.tas
lori.tas 12 years ago

Ivan, I spotted one ( http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/519... ) in which you can still see the slime trail behind it. They're crazy and I love finding them.

Ivan Rodriguez
Ivan Rodriguez 12 years ago

Slime molds... I have heard so much about them, but I can only wonder what they're like in nature, as I've never seen one before. Just the fact that they move... crazy. :)

AlexKonig
AlexKonig 12 years ago

thanks ivan, this kingdom and the one of the slime molds are my favorite

Ivan Rodriguez
Ivan Rodriguez 12 years ago

Breathtaking shot; does justice to such an amazing kingdom of life. As always, nice work Alex. :)

AlexKonig
AlexKonig 12 years ago

thanks aldrinabanluzares, will try to do it again and again, by my next/comming spottings.

aldrin
aldrin 12 years ago

i love the way you angled the camera.. you effectively took the viewers to a different exciting perspective. great photo and nice spotting too..

AlexKonig
AlexKonig 12 years ago

thanks noe&pill, i see it as luck: the light, right time to see these colors at the mushroom and the right chosen camera-angle . is it always: be at the rght time at the right spot to pick the right specimen !!

Noe and Pili
Noe and Pili 12 years ago

Nice capture! very artistic

AlexKonig
AlexKonig 12 years ago

thanks, luck was on my side.

EricEllison
EricEllison 12 years ago

great shot

AlexKonig
Spotted by
AlexKonig

Horst aan de Maas, Limburg, Netherlands

Spotted on Oct 25, 2011
Submitted on Nov 6, 2011

Spotted for Mission

Related Spottings

Spotting Spotting Spotting Spotting

Nearby Spottings

Slender Club fungus pointed club fungus gray shag centipede
Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team