Thanks Alan and Eat-u, your kind words much appreciated. With my limited knowledge of American gyms, my guess is that Hestler's monograph, which covers North American gym species is more likely to shed some light on what this is not.(It would be great though if it told me what it was). I seem to be looking at a process of elimination and I still haven't entirely eliminated purpuratus as a possibility.
Gyms have aquired a reputation for bitterness. Perhaps this is because a few species are especially bitter, as the few species that I've actually bothered tasting haven't been too bad with a taste not too different to cybes or pans. In dried form(powder tasted with a moistened finger) this one tastes strong(yuk) similar to pans prepared the same way.
Dosing with this one was going to be guesswork, with the added aspect of working with a new energy for the first time.
4g fine powder was mixed with a little cold water and thrown down the hatch. Hardly touching the sides it went down easy with no puckering or aftertaste. This dosage while unquestionably active was felt to be an underdose with 5g planned for a further trial. The activity lasted a good number of hours(4-6) and was felt to be very different to cybes or pans. Difficult to characterise at the dosage taken, it was felt to have a mysterious airy quality (Thats pretty vague but the best that can be done at present and may be just goofing off
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Found agreeable and worthy of further experimentation.