Blue mushrooms

Alan Rockefeller · 03-04-08, 23:31

Someone posted a link with a bunch of cool photos on another web site:

Entoloma hochstetteri:

Cortinarius rotundisporus:

Entoloma sp.

Chlorociboria aeruginascens

aeruginascens means blue-green in latin.

Mycena interrupta

Cup fungi

Jelly fungi

Rozites metallica

Parasols, Morwell National Park

Source here.

wildburr · 03-04-08, 23:39

That was freakin cool, I wish I had the resources to hunt and find specimens like that.

Mermaidia · 03-04-08, 23:45

Those are so beautiful.
Thanks for sharing them!

Sunstar · 03-05-08, 00:02

Hippie3 · 03-05-08, 00:10

pretty
i sure wish you would plz upload pix here
instead of linking-
in a few years tthose links will break
leaving us a blank page.

Alan Rockefeller · 03-05-08, 01:20

I didn't take these pictures so I don't think I should upload them here. The guy is selling them on his website so I will just link to them.

In my other posts I don't upload the pics here because I create the posts on shroomery and crosspost some of the better ones here. But I don't want to sit here for half an hour uploading all the pics, I just click edit and copy the code and use sed to change image to img.

Hippie3 · 03-05-08, 01:26

people here that are not logged into shroomery
can't see the linked pix.
and i did ask nicely.
our reason in asking is legitimate,
linked images do not appear in our gallery / image browser .
i can understand not uploading commercial pictures,
though.

Alan Rockefeller · 03-05-08, 02:03

> people here that are not logged into shroomery can't see the linked pix.

My pics are on photobucket and mushroomobserver.org, logging into shroomery shouldn't have anything to do with it. I don't upload pics there because they have a 512k size limit. The size limit is another reason I don't upload pics here, half the pics fit and the other half need to be resized.

> and i did ask nicely.

I am declining nicely. I already have to click the mouse too many times to make a post and I don't want to sit here and click it a hundred times more and wait several seconds between each click to upload the pictures to this site when they look fine hosted on photobucket or mushroomobserver. If you think they are really that cool you can upload the pics.

If I could copy and paste the local path and upload them all at once I would consider it, but the current process is much more tedious than uploading to mushroomobserver or photobucket. Mushroomobserver gives you multiple lines to paste in the local path, so you can add a whole bunch pretty quickly.

mjshroomer · 03-05-08, 02:18

ALan,all you need is a computer and a cd-rom disc of your pictures. load them onto the computer's desktop, and then when you come to mycotopia, all you have to do is click open the manage attachments button below on this page. It allows your to load ten images per time and each ten when uploaded can be renewed with another ten so it is easy. once you put them here they are here to stay.

IT is reallly very simple.

mjshroomer

kocos · 03-05-08, 03:21

Striking images!

weeeeeee · 03-05-08, 03:40

wow those are sooooo beautiful really awesome pictures thank you for sharing them

camMyco · 03-05-08, 08:16

Very cool photos.

Alan Rockefeller · 03-05-08, 15:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by mjshroomer

ALan,all you need is a computer and a cd-rom disc of your pictures

That wouldn't work because my computer doesn't have a cd-rom.

Quote:

load them onto the computer's desktop, and then when you come to mycotopia, all you have to do is click open the manage attachments button below on this page. It allows your to load ten images per time and each ten when uploaded can be renewed with another ten so it is easy. once you put them here they are here to stay.

IT is reallly very simple.

mjshroomer

Its probably not a good idea to upload other peoples copywritten pictures that they are trying to sell onto mycotopia.

Quote:

Originally Posted by camMyco

Very cool photos.

They are all taken in Australia. All the mushrooms there are blue.

Because its the top of the world (provided that you hold the globe properly).

Quote:

Originally Posted by weeeeee

wow those are sooooo beautiful really awesome pictures thank you for sharing them

You are welcome.

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Originally Posted by kocos

Striking images!

There are a ton more, all grouped by color on this site:

steveaxford's photos- powered by SmugMug

AmBe · 03-05-08, 17:54

thanks for that link

very cool

CoyoteMesc · 03-05-08, 22:36

stellar shrooms and pics man

chimp · 03-05-08, 22:48

Beautiful pictures

cleanjar · 03-09-08, 18:35

Just a suggestion for what I have been using recently to store digital images, a thumb drive. Mine holds 8 gigs and was 30 dollars. It is very small and portable, compatible with every computer with a USB port.

Those blue mushroom images are outstanding.

Correction, that guys whole website is outstanding.

wildform · 03-11-08, 07:52

Beautiful shroom.
There is of them PCB/PSC containing?

SharkieJones · 03-11-08, 19:35

Pretty amazing.

Alan Rockefeller · 03-13-08, 00:48

> There is of them PCB/PSC containing?

Probably not. They don't stain blue, they just are blue.

CureCat · 03-17-08, 03:52

Oh rad. The blue Lepiotoid things remind me of the two collections of blue "Lepiotas" I will be sequencing soon. Even the supernatant was easter egg blue during the extraction process.
Some of the blue "Lepiotas" actually turn blue as they age, but are not blue when they are immature. I am not sure whether it occurs as a result of tissue damage or not.

Alan Rockefeller · 04-21-08, 02:36

Cortinarius violaceous by Debbie V, from this post. Found in Jackson State Forest, Mendocino County, California.

Leptonia sp., photo by natashadak in Novato, Marin Co., California

greenie · 04-21-08, 03:08

did i understand u correctly allan? all mushrooms in australia are blue??? why? Awesome pictures by the way. take care.

omentheduck · 04-21-08, 13:15

very nice pics! thanks for sharing them with us!

Bobcat · 04-21-08, 14:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by greenie

did i understand u correctly allan? all mushrooms in australia are blue??? why? Awesome pictures by the way. take care.

no they are not.

But those pics rock! And go to show that just cause they are blue don't mean ya should go and eat 'em! lol.

madsick · 04-21-08, 15:10

all poison right?

warriorsoul · 04-21-08, 15:22

very nice!
I've heard that blue is the rarest colour in nature.

Freaky · 04-21-08, 22:53

This is a great thread! Blue beauties indeed!

Here is one I found a while back and has been posted on Topia before.

flipp diggity · 05-01-08, 20:59

great examples thank you for sharing alan

bluelou · 05-02-08, 19:53

bluelou checking in here haha!!!

Right on time for some of the coolest shroom pics
ive seen in a long time,WHAT A COLOR BLUE!!!!!!!!

GREAT FINDS.....excellent pics just mystical an lushesssss!
TO bad we couldnt eat them ahhhhhhh hahaha?

THey KILL our poor cubies in color,brused ,beaten an all
they never get that BLUE waaaaaaooooooo!!!!!!!!!

Alan Rockefeller · 05-04-08, 21:19

Quote:

TO bad we couldnt eat them ahhhhhhh hahaha?

Joe Ammerati, the Cortinarius expert told me in email last week that he didn't know of any poisonings from purple Cortinarius mushrooms. There are so many species of purple corts that it is not recommended to eat them. The blue Mycenas are likely to have the mycotoxin muscarine. Hard to say what is in the blue Leptonias, they probably wouldn't taste that good anyway. There is some possibility that the blue cup fungi would be edible, those usually aren't known to be toxic.

eastwood · 05-04-08, 22:31

Wow!Stunning pictures.

shroom_seeker · 05-05-08, 03:32

Those are some beautiful pics Alan, thx for sharing.
Here is a picture I took last year of my favorite blue mushroom, the Lactarius indigo. This baby makes a mad omelette, turning your eggs blue.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alan Rockefeller

Joe Ammerati, the Cortinarius expert told me in email last week that he didn't know of any poisonings from purple Cortinarius mushrooms.

I met Joe today @ Mushroom Maynia

DarkLestor · 05-05-08, 16:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by shroom_seeker

...
Here is a picture I took last year of my favorite blue mushroom, the Lactarius indigo. This baby makes a mad omelette, turning your eggs blue. ...

sweet, love to try that

Alan Rockefeller · 06-15-08, 17:49

The other day I saw that Ian Dodd posted these pics of Entoloma hochstetteri from Swans Crossing, NSW Australia on mushroomobserver.org:

warriorsoul · 06-15-08, 18:31

Alan Rockefeller · 06-17-08, 03:12

Blue Cortinarius from Ian Dodd, from Swans Crossing, NSW Australia, from mushroomobserver.org

Alan Rockefeller · 06-18-08, 01:57

I sent this thread to Tom Volk and asked what that blue rust is in pic # 4 is.

He ID'd it as a Pulcherricium caeruleum!

http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/july2000.html

He also says that this thread is really cool and the blue mushrooms are the same color as his hair right now.

I would love to cultivate Pulcherricium caeruleum, it would be a lot of fun to have it on logs or in wood chips in the back yard. I wonder what it looks like in grain jars.

Here is another pic of it by Chris Matherly

One from Flickr:

Some from micologica.net

Sillycyber · 06-21-08, 04:26

Those look amazing! Period the end. Finding some of those would yield plenty of satisfaction.

Alan Rockefeller · 06-07-09, 02:09

Steve Axford, the photographer who took these pictures has joined mushroomobserver recently and he has been posting some mindblowing photos.

More of his observations are here:

http://mushroomobserver.org/observer...ervations/1293

Here are the fungi photos on his website. They are truly outstanding:

http://steveaxford.smugmug.com/Living%20Things/356578

Beege · 06-19-09, 15:41

Lactarius indigo, tasty!

those are some great photos Alan, I wish I had the equipment to do that...

mushroommaster7 · 06-19-09, 15:57

those are really neat pics, it's obvious you know what you're doing

Battlr · 06-19-09, 16:11

Wow, such great pics.

Alan Rockefeller · 06-19-09, 18:57

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those are really neat pics, it's obvious you know what you're doing

They are not my pics, they were taken by Steve Axford.

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Lactarius indigo, tasty!

Welcome to Mycotopia Beege!

Here are a few more pics by Steve Axford.

Hygrocybe sp.

Boletellus obscurecoccineus

More here: http://steveaxford.smugmug.com/Living%20Things/356578

Alan Rockefeller · 06-20-09, 04:39

Photo by noodle snacks

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03-04-08, 23:31	#1 (permalink)
Alan Rockefeller Mycologist Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 754	Blue mushrooms Someone posted a link with a bunch of cool photos on another web site: Entoloma hochstetteri: Cortinarius rotundisporus: Entoloma sp. Chlorociboria aeruginascens aeruginascens means blue-green in latin. Mycena interrupta Cup fungi Jelly fungi Rozites metallica Parasols, Morwell National Park Source here.

03-04-08, 23:39	#2 (permalink)
wildburr Midnight Toker Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 3,731	That was freakin cool, I wish I had the resources to hunt and find specimens like that. __________________ Silence is Golden, but Duct tape is Silver.

03-04-08, 23:45	#3 (permalink)
Mermaidia An Example Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 3,548	Those are so beautiful. Thanks for sharing them! __________________ Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.

03-05-08, 00:02	#4 (permalink)
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03-05-08, 00:10	#5 (permalink)
Hippie3 DUNG DEALER Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 43,266	pretty i sure wish you would plz upload pix here instead of linking- in a few years tthose links will break leaving us a blank page. __________________ visit dial-a-hippie .

03-05-08, 01:20	#6 (permalink)
Alan Rockefeller Mycologist Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 754	I didn't take these pictures so I don't think I should upload them here. The guy is selling them on his website so I will just link to them. In my other posts I don't upload the pics here because I create the posts on shroomery and crosspost some of the better ones here. But I don't want to sit here for half an hour uploading all the pics, I just click edit and copy the code and use sed to change image to img.

03-05-08, 01:26	#7 (permalink)
Hippie3 DUNG DEALER Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 43,266	people here that are not logged into shroomery can't see the linked pix. and i did ask nicely. our reason in asking is legitimate, linked images do not appear in our gallery / image browser . i can understand not uploading commercial pictures, though. __________________ visit dial-a-hippie .

03-05-08, 02:03	#8 (permalink)
Alan Rockefeller Mycologist Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 754	> people here that are not logged into shroomery can't see the linked pix. My pics are on photobucket and mushroomobserver.org, logging into shroomery shouldn't have anything to do with it. I don't upload pics there because they have a 512k size limit. The size limit is another reason I don't upload pics here, half the pics fit and the other half need to be resized. > and i did ask nicely. I am declining nicely. I already have to click the mouse too many times to make a post and I don't want to sit here and click it a hundred times more and wait several seconds between each click to upload the pictures to this site when they look fine hosted on photobucket or mushroomobserver. If you think they are really that cool you can upload the pics. If I could copy and paste the local path and upload them all at once I would consider it, but the current process is much more tedious than uploading to mushroomobserver or photobucket. Mushroomobserver gives you multiple lines to paste in the local path, so you can add a whole bunch pretty quickly.

03-05-08, 02:18	#9 (permalink)
mjshroomer Mycotopiate Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 1,787	ALan,all you need is a computer and a cd-rom disc of your pictures. load them onto the computer's desktop, and then when you come to mycotopia, all you have to do is click open the manage attachments button below on this page. It allows your to load ten images per time and each ten when uploaded can be renewed with another ten so it is easy. once you put them here they are here to stay. IT is reallly very simple. mjshroomer

03-05-08, 03:21	#10 (permalink)
kocos Mycotopiate Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 942	Striking images!

03-05-08, 03:40	#11 (permalink)
weeeeeee humanoid Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 1,851	wow those are sooooo beautiful really awesome pictures thank you for sharing them __________________ -p.l.u.r

03-05-08, 08:16	#12 (permalink)
camMyco Modified Honey Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 2,142	Very cool photos. __________________ William Blake’s poem: “If the doors of perception were to be cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite”.

03-05-08, 17:54	#14 (permalink)
AmBe ubuntu Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 588	thanks for that link very cool __________________ 420

03-05-08, 22:36	#15 (permalink)
CoyoteMesc howling mad Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 4,045	stellar shrooms and pics man __________________ WOODY: Hey, Mr. Peterson, there's a cold one waiting for you. NORM: I know. If she calls, I'm not here.[ (Cheers)

03-05-08, 22:48	#16 (permalink)
chimp Space Lord Modulator Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 6,425	Beautiful pictures __________________ Respond, Vibrate, Feedback, Resonate

04-21-08, 13:15	#24 (permalink)
omentheduck YoUsEeNOthiNg Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 961	very nice pics! thanks for sharing them with us! __________________ "I look, therefore I see. I try, therefore I will. I embrace, therefore I'm embraced. I believe, therefore I am!" omentheduck

03-09-08, 18:35	#17 (permalink)
cleanjar Mycotopiate Join Date: Sep 1971 Posts: 1,097	Just a suggestion for what I have been using recently to store digital images, a thumb drive. Mine holds 8 gigs and was 30 dollars. It is very small and portable, compatible with every computer with a USB port. Those blue mushroom images are outstanding. Correction, that guys whole website is outstanding.

03-11-08, 07:52	#18 (permalink)
wildform Mycophiliac Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 14	Beautiful shroom. There is of them PCB/PSC containing?

03-11-08, 19:35	#19 (permalink)
SharkieJones Moderator Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 3,110	Pretty amazing. __________________

03-13-08, 00:48	#20 (permalink)
Alan Rockefeller Mycologist Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 754	> There is of them PCB/PSC containing? Probably not. They don't stain blue, they just are blue.

03-17-08, 03:52	#21 (permalink)
CureCat mad mycologist Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 28	Oh rad. The blue Lepiotoid things remind me of the two collections of blue "Lepiotas" I will be sequencing soon. Even the supernatant was easter egg blue during the extraction process. Some of the blue "Lepiotas" actually turn blue as they age, but are not blue when they are immature. I am not sure whether it occurs as a result of tissue damage or not. __________________ The

04-21-08, 02:36	#22 (permalink)
Alan Rockefeller Mycologist Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 754	Cortinarius violaceous by Debbie V, from this post. Found in Jackson State Forest, Mendocino County, California. Leptonia sp., photo by natashadak in Novato, Marin Co., California Attached Thumbnails

04-21-08, 03:08	#23 (permalink)
greenie Pot Farmer Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,560	did i understand u correctly allan? all mushrooms in australia are blue??? why? Awesome pictures by the way. take care. __________________ I am not real. I am a computer program.

04-21-08, 15:10	#26 (permalink)
madsick best lover ever Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 75	all poison right?

04-21-08, 15:22	#27 (permalink)
warriorsoul Mr. Blue-Foot Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,897	very nice! I've heard that blue is the rarest colour in nature. __________________ "He findeth not who seeks his own The soul is lost that's saved alone." John Whittier

04-21-08, 22:53	#28 (permalink)
Freaky Magik Mod Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 2,901	This is a great thread! Blue beauties indeed! Here is one I found a while back and has been posted on Topia before. __________________

05-01-08, 20:59	#29 (permalink)
flipp diggity Mycophage Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 161	great examples thank you for sharing alan __________________ nothing posted by this user has actually taken place.images are found elsewhere and submitted in the pursiut of knowledge P.M. me if your confused

05-02-08, 19:53	#30 (permalink)
bluelou Metal Monster Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 22	FUCKIN BLUE SHROOMS ALRIGHT!!!!!!!!!! bluelou checking in here haha!!! Right on time for some of the coolest shroom pics ive seen in a long time,WHAT A COLOR BLUE!!!!!!!! GREAT FINDS.....excellent pics just mystical an lushesssss! TO bad we couldnt eat them ahhhhhhh hahaha? THey KILL our poor cubies in color,brused ,beaten an all they never get that BLUE waaaaaaooooooo!!!!!!!!!

05-04-08, 22:31	#32 (permalink)
eastwood Mycotopiate Join Date: Jul 1972 Posts: 2,916	Wow!Stunning pictures.

06-15-08, 17:49	#35 (permalink)
Alan Rockefeller Mycologist Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 754	The other day I saw that Ian Dodd posted these pics of Entoloma hochstetteri from Swans Crossing, NSW Australia on mushroomobserver.org:

06-15-08, 18:31	#36 (permalink)
warriorsoul Mr. Blue-Foot Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,897	__________________ "He findeth not who seeks his own The soul is lost that's saved alone." John Whittier

06-17-08, 03:12	#37 (permalink)
Alan Rockefeller Mycologist Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 754	Blue Cortinarius from Ian Dodd, from Swans Crossing, NSW Australia, from mushroomobserver.org

06-18-08, 01:57	#38 (permalink)
Alan Rockefeller Mycologist Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 754	I sent this thread to Tom Volk and asked what that blue rust is in pic # 4 is. He ID'd it as a Pulcherricium caeruleum! http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/july2000.html He also says that this thread is really cool and the blue mushrooms are the same color as his hair right now. I would love to cultivate Pulcherricium caeruleum, it would be a lot of fun to have it on logs or in wood chips in the back yard. I wonder what it looks like in grain jars. Here is another pic of it by Chris Matherly One from Flickr: Some from micologica.net

06-21-08, 04:26	#39 (permalink)
Sillycyber Mycophiliac Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 45	Those look amazing! Period the end. Finding some of those would yield plenty of satisfaction.

06-07-09, 02:09	#40 (permalink)
Alan Rockefeller Mycologist Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 754	Steve Axford, the photographer who took these pictures has joined mushroomobserver recently and he has been posting some mindblowing photos. More of his observations are here: http://mushroomobserver.org/observer...ervations/1293 Here are the fungi photos on his website. They are truly outstanding: http://steveaxford.smugmug.com/Living%20Things/356578

06-19-09, 15:41	#41 (permalink)
Beege a funguy Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1	Lactarius indigo Lactarius indigo, tasty! those are some great photos Alan, I wish I had the equipment to do that... __________________ http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i301/Beege19/Sig1.jpg Last edited by Beege; 06-19-09 at 15:42. Reason: added comment