SteveElektro
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are there any active shrooms common to Victoria (and around at the moment) that don't stain blue? If so, which types?
I'll call the guys over at the Darwin Awards and give them a heads up. Idiot.HarryHallucination said:i say just eat them anyway....
u only live once
"The common Galerina species in Australia can be easily identified.
Firstly they have a stem that can be quite similar in colour to the gill and flesh of the cap. The stem tends towards off white, the cap I have never seen umbonated or nippled in anyway, remaining flat as the cap expands. Brownish to orange. The stem tend to keep an annular ring, or veil remnant ring around the stem, which is rarely the case with Subaeruginosa and allies.
The gills are another indicator of Galerina. They tend to be much more distant than psilocybes (distantly placed between one-another) and are thin and seperate, aggressively attached to the stem, all ending cleanly and abruptly in line with the gill edge and never ascending upwards towards the stem.
Cap colour is orangy brown. Indicators are the similar colour of cap underside and stem flesh, veil annular rings pronounced on stem, thin seperate gills, and no blue staining. Psilocybes tend to have gills that are much more crowded, brownish and different in flseh colour to the cap top and stem flesh. Look for gills that ascend towards each other and as they move toward the stem, bluestaining and purple brown sporeprints. Annular rings are never found on known Psilocybe woodloving Australian species.
Galerina species reported in America are known to contain similar nasties to Death Caps, and reports of mistaken ingestion in Australia are rare. One such event occured when a Chinese student mistakenly comsumemd what was believed to be Galerina, thinking it was a common Honey mushroom (Armillaria mellea) or (Flammulina velutipes)"
quote is a post from bluemeanie. a user on an enthobotany website.
Whereas the stems on the psilocybes i have come across ae a silky white colour with an unmistakable texture, I have often come across fungi that look like psilocybes yet when I go to pick them for further inspection i can usually tell straaight away from the texture of the stem that they aren't. Also, gallerina's give a rusty-brown spore print, another classic sign to avoid a certain mushroom.Firstly they have a stem that can be quite similar in colour to the gill and flesh of the cap. The stem tends towards off white