Amanita muscaria and Psilocybe cyanescens on Tuesday After

[boomer2]

Found in Seattle and photographed on a Tuesday afternoon.

Amanita muscaria



Psilocybe cyanescens



Boomer2

[Ashoka]

Thanks for the pron. Beautiful last shot!

[boomer2]

Thanks for the pron. Beautiful last shot!

Here are a few specimens of Tuesdays Psilocybe cyanescens which have changed color from chestnut caramel to a greenish tint caused by oxidation of psilocine when the bluing of the oxidation mixed with the sun dried hygrophanous color change of the straw-yellow to a deep sea green.





And these specimens are in perfect condition for harvesting but we only came to record their presence and left them for others. since I doubt they will be there by the weeks end.

boomer2

[Maïwa]

beautiful shots

[mindcandy]

Nice pics, although, I've since discontinued psilocybe consumption.  And, what's this "God is a plant known as the Earth"?  Smoking a little too much somethingsomething?

galeras

[boomer2]

Nice pics, although, I've since discontinued psilocybe consumption.  And, what's this "God is a plant known as the Earth"?  Smoking a little too much somethingsomething?

galeras

If you travel in space,

Away from the Earth,

It gets smaller and smaller  

And when it gets the size of a basketball and then you understand the meaning of all is one.

We are all organisms of this ball of Earth  And this Earth is God and nothing less.  One mind, one universe, one Galaxy, Infinity.

And so God is a Plant known as the Earth.

Years ago, I had a geode.

Cracked it open adn it was the most beautiful colors and crystal I had ever seen.  I looked at its beauty while on mushrooms and asked my Wife a rhetorical question.

"I wonder how old this rock is?"

My wife replied, "Not as old as the Earth."

Then I realized the truth.

That rock was the fucking Earth.

And then I came to this conclusion.

No one knows how old the Earth really is.

Years later my son inquired as to why we spent all these billions and trillions of dollars to go to Outer Space when so many children were starving in this world.  I thought that maybe we were subconsciously trying to get back to where we came from.

I told him that and his response was
"Daddy, don't they know we are already in the middle of Outer Space.

It dawned on me that ten million miles one way was no different then ten million miles the other way..

Thus

"God is a plant known as the Earth."

boomer2

[mindcandy]

To me, God is the Universe.  Earth is but one part, and probably a very insignificant part, at that.  I once had a conversation with the man himself, and he said as long as we "care", the Earth shall exist.  So keep caring.

mindcandy

[Maïwa]

Boomer,

Im from the eastcoast and was wondering?
I noitced Psi. Semilantacea grows by the sea in open fileds, and forest entrances.

Do you find these Psilocybe cyanescens in nature parks, where there are paths in the forests and forested area. Or are they indeed moreso found in city public domain, grassy areas and by the openings by the sea?
Youve mentioned several times with P. Stamets in writings the occurance in mostly city public areas. I am sure they are less likely found in heavily densed forest but can you elaborate on this ?

Thanks

[boomer2]

In there natural habitat, the mushrooms are scarce and sparse.

They are only a few.

In man-made environments, the mushrooms are abundant.  fertilizers and wood-chips are what mushrooms grow in .

In a pasture, liberty caps are scattered throughout the field.  On a lawn, they grow wall to wall, as do P. strictipes, which macroscopically resembles a liberty cap with about the same potency.

P. cyanescens and P. baeocystis are common in mulched gardens, parks, lawns in the Seattle Puget Sound area of the PNW, as are blue ringers which also grow in lawns and in wood chips.  WE have over 18 varieties of magic in our region.

I have found them in such for more that 32 years of photographing them in their habitats.  In the woods they are scarce and far and in between. I once found 18 specimens of P. cyanescens along a partial trail 0off a logging road in the middle of a clear cut in Kingston, Washington and never again since in a forested habitat.

I have a habitat section at my website in the species Identification page of the Mushroom John's Tales of the Shrooms web pages at :

http://www.mushroomjohn.org/species.htm

look at the posts in the the, Ruminants and Habitats Pictorial.

http://mushroomjohn.org/ruminantsandhabitats.htm

Take a pasture.  Compress it into a square foot of sod.  Then the shrooms appear wall to wall.  They have all the proper fertilizers rich in nitrogen and phosphates and these hep the shrooms grow. Then the one foot square of sod is laid next to multiple similar squares of sod and the mycelia grows throughout the grass and produces rugs of mushrooms.

Same in the wood chipped gardens and mulched garden beds where Cyans, Blue Ringers and Baeos fruit abundantly due to the conditions of alder and liquid fertilizers or those already in the top soil where the shrooms appear. Thus giant patches with many pounds of shrooms.

Always in a man made environment.



In the clear cuts of the woods in the PNW, P. pelliculosa grows in veins where the alder bark and branches are smashed from bulldozers. They fruit in large veins by the tens of thousands every fall where ever there is a clear cut.

It is because of the man made ecology that we find these mushrooms in man-made environments here.

boomer2

[Maïwa]

Boomer thanks for the informative response.
I thought so, i expected most psiocybes to be scarce in there natural habitat.

[mindcandy]

They wouldn't be so scarce, if it wasn't for those damn mushroom pickers!

[DrYRHead]

Per usual, cool pics Boomer2.