I cut one in half about 20 minutes ago. So far no discoloration. The smell is sweet, almost reminds me of melons? One of them has a slight orange spot in the gills that I assume is bruising.
Psilocybe cubensis are much more resilient than people give them credit for and are really easy to grow. UB tek is great if you don’t want to mess around with pressure sterilization or anything like that.
Oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus). I picked and dried a bunch two years ago and we’ve been adding them to soups and sauces. We’re still alive and well.
The mushroom itself is edible, but can absorb arsenic from the soil. Because its bright amethyst coloration fades with age and weathering, it becomes difficult to identify, hence the common name “deceiver” wikipedia
That’s interesting, I’ve noticed recently that the iNaturalist identification has been suggesting wrong IDs on some very easy and obvious images like a pair of Killdeer IDd as a Hooded Merganser.
I did a little reading on the difference. It seems I’ll have to start looking at the undersides of mushrooms in the future. That seemed to be the easiest way to differentiate.
It doesn’t say on <a href="">wikipedia</a> if it can be used for making dyes, but the colour is due to light exposure…
Young fruit bodies that are still beneath the earth are white; as they mature and emerge from the ground, the exposure to light causes the color to change to violet
and also
It was one of six species that appeared as part of a series depicting native New Zealand fungi on stamps, released in 2002
It is incredibly striking, so I can see why it was ‘honoured’ with a stamp
Slime molds do it for me also, I just don’t know whether they fit here though? I have started some posting to macro photography (which is another community that’s gone quite quiet recently)
They are really beautiful, the green and blue ones look like they belong on the ‘Avatar’ planet. I’m going to have a look for some nice photos to post, cheers 👍
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