Australia: the great mycological unknown

[anti-oedipus]

Hi all, as i posted elsewhere i spent the other day in search of the elusive psilocybe australiana http://www.mushroomjohn.org?psilocybeaustraliana1.htm. I've been picking wild psilocybes in austalia for about three decades but i've mainly collected cubes and pans. i've not yet been lucky enough to gather some australiana (a forest psilocybe) but i know lots of people who have so they're not uncommon. i doubt that they are actually an australian native as their habitat is pine forest, and mainland australia has no native pine forests. The wonder is that mycologically speaking australia is seriously under studied, and fungi habitat is disappearing faster than the rate of species identification. This fact is of great concern to british photographer/mycologist michael pilkington who is currently avidly photographing Tasmanian fungi. His photographs are extremely beautiful and Australia certainly has some exquisite varieties. Check out his site, a feast for the eyes! http://mycoimage.co.uk

[Hippie3]

thx

[psylence]

Psilocybe australiana is not it's own species, but just a variant of Psilocybe subaeruginosa.

[anti-oedipus]

thank you.

[Super Mariox51]

yea what you said about their species depletion is definetly accurate I'm sure its not just australia even here in the states -it doesnt take a mycologist to notice-the species of all fungi psilocin and non psilocin species of mushrooms are losing their nat. habitat... all in all it just means another step in evolution.

[mjshroomer]

Originally Posted by Super Mariox51

yea what you said about their species depletion is definetly accurate I'm sure its not just australia even here in the states -it doesnt take a mycologist to notice-the species of all fungi psilocin and non psilocin species of mushrooms are losing their nat. habitat... all in all it just means another step in evolution.

Many species are rare iun their natural habitats. It is the man-made environments where they flourish and fruit abundantly.

mjshroomer

[anti-oedipus]

Originally Posted by mjshroomer

Many species are rare iun their natural habitats. It is the man-made environments where they flourish and fruit abundantly.
mjshroomer

Thats symbiotically supercool: man and shroom interdependently dwelling in harmony and balance. Before we know it shrooms will be growing on the lawns of fast food restaurants

[mycospora]

Originally Posted by anti-oedipus

Thats symbiotically supercool: man and shroom interdependently dwelling in harmony and balance. Before we know it shrooms will be growing on the lawns of fast food restaurants

Blue ringers, P. baeocystis and P. strictipes (also a liberty cap) have been picked on restaurant lawns in Seattle and inthe Puget Sound for more than 30 years.

Jochen Gartz and I picked shrooms on a MacDonalds lawn in Tumwater, wWashingtopn. I picked blue ringers off of Wendy's lawn.

Photographed P. cyanescens at the downtown Seattle Jail, the County Courthouse, on the Capitol Lawn in Olympia, the Federal Building in Olympia, Nurseing homes and churches in the PNW. The lawn shrooms are vreated form the sod laid on the topsoil. Both contain fertilizers and often appear now in suburnban areas of the larger cities where new housing, Government buildings and restaurants are built.

In the fall they grow in parks in gardens in woodchip mulches of chips or bark and of twigs, branches and stems

mjshroomer

[anti-oedipus]

Originally Posted by mycospora

Blue ringers, P. baeocystis and P. strictipes (also a liberty cap) have been picked on restaurant lawns in Seattle and inthe Puget Sound for more than 30 years.

Jochen Gartz and I picked shrooms on a MacDonalds lawn in Tumwater, wWashingtopn. I picked blue ringers off of Wendy's lawn.

Photographed P. cyanescens at the downtown Seattle Jail, the County Courthouse, on the Capitol Lawn in Olympia, the Federal Building in Olympia, Nurseing homes and churches in the PNW. The lawn shrooms are vreated form the sod laid on the topsoil. Both contain fertilizers and often appear now in suburnban areas of the larger cities where new housing, Government buildings and restaurants are built.

In the fall they grow in parks in gardens in woodchip mulches of chips or bark and of twigs, branches and stems

mjshroomer

yeah, i added the wink coz i saw a photo of a certain shroomer with his own website pickin' shrooms from a Macdonalds lawn. He's one happy and committed shroomer don't you think?