Here we have 54 new images on 2 pages of the blue staining psilocybian mushroom Copelandia cyanescens.
These specimens were collected for herbarium deposit and for spore prionts in the spring and summer/fall months of 2005 in various locations in Thailand.
This species can be found in the tropics and neotropics of both hemispheres.
From southern Georgia to Florida and west to Texas and southern Oklahoma. The Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America. Numerous islands in the Pacific and Oceanea, in Australia and New Zealand, in Sri Lanka and South and Southeast Asia and the Philippine Islands and also in Southern parts of Europe and various locations in Africa.
It's spores and sporeprint are jet black and the gills are blackish with light white edges. This mushroom is coprophilous growing in the dung of four-legged ruminants.
Also common in manured soil in habitats where manure is spread on the ground and used for fertilizers.
Enjoy the images. They especially look fantastic when enlarged. This now brings my website to more than 12,000 photographs.
http://mushroomjohn.com/thaicopes2005-1.htm (http://mushroomjohn.com/thaicopes2005-1.htm)
boomer2
8) :shock: ---- Yo!!! That pic of all the natural bluing is so awesome!! Great stuff........ Thanks for sharing----------- sal
Those were so beautiful when I saw them. IF you noticed, a few had died and were shriveled up. There was a fearce monsoon for a few hours the night before I found them so that accounted for the dead ones in one of those images. This was a place where there were a lot of palm fronds which had collapsed the day before during the storm. So there was also dried caked mud chips around the stems of a few.
I often find these guys but only mild bluing.
boomer2
Beautiful specimens of Copelandia 8)
Thanks