my week, pictorally speaking!

[Fungus]

they are Stropharia aurantiaca - the Redlead Roundhead. saprobe on the mulch

 

Originally indigenous in Australia and just as Clathrus archeri, "exported" to Europe with living sheep or sheep wool infected with spores.

[David Humphries]

Originally indigenous in Australia and just as Clathrus archeri, "exported" to Europe with living sheep or sheep wool infected with spores.

 

 

 

cool

 

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

looks great & very well attended.

 

shame I couldn't make it

 

 

What fung did ya bag ?

 

 

 

 

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well I got a new species for me, a dung psilocybe sp, cant remember the name Gerrit gave me!

 

got some cracking ganos and a few I. dryadeus in clusters:001_cool:

[Fungus]

I got a new species for me, a dung psilocybe sp, cant remember the name

 

Stropharia (= Psilocybe) semiglobata.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Been down to windsor to capture more evidence to confirm my hypothesis, lets just say BINGO!

 

Body language of trees- mastered:thumbup:

 

 

 

 

 

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[David Humphries]

Great shots, wee pines are fantastic

 

 

 

 

 

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[Fungus]

Nice , especially the toad. Did you collect some bufotenin from its skin to make a witches' brew or ointment with Fly Agarics to complete it ?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Nice, especially the toad. Did you collect some bufotenin from its skin to make a witches' brew or ointment with Fly Agarics to complete it ?

 

nah, will leave that to you crazy dutch dudes!

 

does illustrate the value of log piles for habitat though, he was hiding under the peeling bark on elm logs riddled with armillaria sp:001_cool:

 

he wasnt too impressed by my rude disturbance!

 

 

[Fungus]

he wasnt too impressed by my rude disturbance!

 

They never are. They seem to trust and rely on the poison in and awful taste of their skin and their ability to inflate themselves with air to make them indigestible and/or impossible to swallow for predators such as birds and snakes.