psynapsurfa
Bluelighter
nice finds too. man i love fungi season.
i guess i could allways starty a new thread on these weirder topics. what do you think psilo, or any else that wants to amswer.
Looking like I may have to get my arse out there. I usually don't even bother going until late April/early May when I am confident I will get results. Might just pop out for a hunt on the weekend.
^ Cheers for the heads up mate, I do appreciate it.
Pretty random it was the exact same day last year. I am in the South Eastern suburbs but my area doesn't seem to really come up till May. Maybe I am just looking in the wrong places but it seems unlikely because I know the area really well and am pretty sure I have it well sussed out. Either way it doesn't really matter, I can certainly wait a few weeks if I have to but it would be ncie to stumble upon some this week.
It's said that the subs we get in southern Aus have an alkaloid content of 0.45%
Personally I believe some mushrooms are a bit stronger than that and many are actually....
gymnopilus spectabilus.
even tho they say its from americas. i must have found an aussie one. goin blue and all.
man, i cant help it. these things just happen.
exactly as they look on that site.
and i most certainly am gonna eat this thing.
unless, i get told by someone who knpws better, not, or that they are dangerous.
i have not found any indication of danger yet, so heres hopin alls well.
especially because i dreamt it first.
pay attention to your dreams peoples.
maybe another unidentified active for my swag. im gonna have to start getting these documented!!!!
i can tase wether a mushie is active or not, and i think i can even smell it. i have been able to smell them, just walking around, not even looking f
i just ate a tiny piece then, tases very nice, like a gourmet mushroom, which reassures me, and confirms its not a gymnoplius, as they are said to tase foul.
the bit that i ate is workin just now. completly safe i say. am gonna eat the rest in 45 minutes if i havent died.haha
quoted for idiocy.
congratulations psynapsurfa, thus you have entered into the prestigious class of "completely uneducated fool who bioassays unidentified fungi in the mistaken belief that it will get him high".
you have eaten an unknown species of blue staining bolete, none of which have ever been found to contain psilo- compounds. the bluing reaction is an oxidisation of a completely different compound.
http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/jul2003.html
the fact that you initially id'd this as Gymnopilus spectabilis further indicates that you unable to make even the most basic of differentiations between extremely morphologically distinct families of fungi.
good thing you have those amazing senses of taste and smell that can sniff out actives, because you are quite obviously blind.
Blue staining does NOT indicate activity.
Pleasant taste does NOT indicate edibility.
At least this family is not known for having too many acutely toxic members, although one fatality has been recorded after ingestion of Boletus pulcherrimus.
Please report back on your 'experience', so that this case of foolishness has at least some form of halfassed research value.
