Also, since you can't really write on the collecting container in this case, specimens get confused and notes are not taken in the field. I have watched mycology students cram all kinds of mushrooms into the little compartments in their trays, then close up the trays and carry them around with the mushrooms sweating in the closed container and banging around with no padding at all. I'm sorry to be a curmudgeon, but this is one example of the new idea being really inferior to the old idea. A whole generation of mycology students is learning this method. Over the past 5–10 years, mycologists have taken to using plastic tackle boxes (or the sectioned trays from tackle boxes) to hold mushroom collections in the woods. If you want bags for larger collections, I recommend the larger waxed-paper bags that are sold as disposable containers for sanitary napkins these are also readily available online. Mushrooms tend to sweat, especially in hot weather, and you are likely to have a wet mess on your hands if you put them in plastic bags. If you cannot get waxed paper bags, brown paper sandwich bags are the next-best option. Several companies make waxed paper sandwich bags these are the best mushroom holders, and they are easily purchased in stores and online. You will need the pocket knife in order to dig up the bases of some mushrooms (see Collection Methods, below), and the waxed paper bags are what you will use to store your mushrooms. By contrast, collecting mushrooms for identification requires a pocket knife, some waxed paper bags, a Sharpie, insect repellent, and a basket. I recently decided to take up fly fishing $400 later, I managed to catch a few six-inch brook trout. We mushroom hunters are fortunate that our hobby doesn't require lots of expensive equipment. Pictures and information are for educational purposes.Be sure to follow rules and regulations for mushroom picking! One rare cubensis strains named Columbia “rust spore” actually drops almost reddish rust colored spores but this strain is very unique! We do carry spores of that strain from time to time.ĭISCLAIMER: Psilocybe mushroom spores are sold for legal microscopy purposes, food seasonings and artistic purposes. Cheilocystidia fusoid-ventricose with an obtuse or subcapitate apex, sometimes sublageni form, 17-32 by 6-10, with the narrow necks 3-5 u broad. Pleurocystidia nearly pear shaped, sometimes mucronate, 18-30 by 6-13 u. Basidia 2- or 3-spores, but usually 4-spored. Microscopic Features: Spores dark purplish brown to violet brown in deposit, subellipsoid, 11.5-17 by 8-11 u. We carry spores of cubensis from all around the world. This mycelia breaking down dung held reduce the smell of dung and is a blessing on a ranch or farm.Ĭubensis are the most common psilocybe mushrooms on earth. The spores are deposited on the grass the livestock eat, then pass through the animals system to start the fungi’s life cycle over again. This fungi can quickly turn aging livestock dung into composted rich soil, which in turn feeds the grass, which feeds the livestock. The mycelium from this fungi spreads quickly and is a great dung decomposer. Another reason this mushroom is so common around ranches is because it grows on any cereal straw and just about any grain. It really has to do with micro climates and the grass helps hold in moisture to make mini micro climates. Instead they thrived in the spring from the morning dew. Our friend thought he would see the cubensis mushrooms growing in the summer from the monsoon rains, but the intense heat would dry up the rain water to quickly. They were not big mushrooms but the mycelium was doing it's job in nature, breaking down dead and decaying matter such as dung. Within a few years there were plenty of wild cubensis growing in the spring time. A reliable source told of us of some cow fields in a arid desert climate that used to not have cubensis growing until the spores were introduced. If a pasture does not have cubensis growing there, then most of the time it's merely a matter of introducing the spores to the area when there is warm weather and plenty of rain or morning dew. They especially thrive in grassy pastures with plenty of dung. They are typically found around farms or ranches where there is livestock such as horses,cattle, buffalo or even elephant dung. Another reason these mushrooms are so wide spread is because their natural habitat is on wide range of substrates. In nature, typically it grows in tropical and sub-tropical climates in the 75F to 100F temperature range, as long as there is plenty of rain or morning dew. Cubensis is typically a warm and hot weather mushroom, but has also been seen growing in cooler climates and temperatures.
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