Mycos <mycos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:13:19 GMT,
>>For the record, I understand there are a few simple guidelines
>>for IDing
>
>>shrooms you come across growing in cow**** when you are
>>creeping around in cow pastures at 2am in Florida. However, I
>>did want to confirm these
>
>>two simple rules, which will be the basis on which I will be
>>deciding which ones to eat and which ones to chuck:
>>
>>- there are very few mushrooms that grow out of cow**** in
>>Florida that are poisonous.
>>
>>- and that there are even fewer poisonous mushrooms that bruise
>>blue as the Psilocybe Cube types do, particularly those found
>>growing in cow****
>
>>at 2am in Florida.
>>
>>
>>Am I mistaken or are these fairly reasonable guidelines to go
>>by when?
>>
>>I will be in Florida by Monday - so, if I don't respond to any
>>posts by next Friday, it is safe to assume that my
>>"mushroom-IDing-in-cow-pastures-at-2am-in-Florida" guidelines
>>are indeed
>
>> flawed.
>>
>>
>>Thanks fellas
>
> You might want to add the purple-black s****e-print and remove
> the cow****. It's presence isn't necessary for the vast
> majority of Psilocybe spp. Blue staining and purple-black
> s****es are highly diagnostic of Psilocybe, although not all
> psilocin/psilocybin containing shrooms are from that genus...
> or even Family (Strophariaceae). Gymnopilus is one of the more
> obvious ones not fitting that mold, but I suppose if you're
> going to start straying into other genera/families, it's better
> that you do some more book-work first in any case.
>
> Mycos
>
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>
Remember...I think that it was Gordon Wasson who said, "All
mushrooms are edible, though some only once."


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