Blue mushrooms...

[Dendro Dave]

Originally Posted by Nicholas

You know what I noticed just now about this hobby...


I could walk around the woods. Find a bunch of crap. Put it up on Dendroboard and am almost 99.9987% positive SOMEONE would buy it. I think we all need some sort of rehabilitation program.

There are basically several people on ebay that do that...One in Arkansas who I've posted links to several times, sells lots of moss, moss covered rocks and lichens along with other stuff off her property. One thing to consider is ethical harvesting. Its not that big a deal if one guy goes out and takes a lil moss, some mushrooms or lichens but if a ton of people start doing it, especially off property other then their own, then we have a problem.

[Nicholas]

Agreed.

Moss takes age's to grow.

So I was 99.9987 percent correct!!! Yippeeeeee

[MA70Snowman]

so uh.. how much to score some "blue" 'shrooms? I think those would look stellar in a viv. I'm definatly down for funding someones field trip if I got a cut of it

[Dendro Dave]

Found some more examples of blue mushrooms including one available to buy...

Pleurotus columbinus-Blue Oyster (This is the one you can buy)




Here are some other random blue mushroom pics...some may be identified, others I may not have found a name for...

Blue mushroom (Stropharia aeruginosa)


Entoloma sp. Balfour Track, Tarkine, Tasmania



Mycena interrupta



lactarius indigo (edible, found in the US)


Sky blue mushroom. Entoloma Hochstetteri (virescens), Fox Glacier, New Zealand


Entoloma Hochstetteri


Unknowns...







....And 1 purple one just so you know they exist too

Cortinarius archeri, Wilson's Promontory, Victoria

[fleshfrombone]

Blue mushrooms eh? Dave now I know where your crazy Buddhist metaphysical page long posts come from

Sick mushys, how do they taste bro?

[Dendro Dave]

LoL...actually my little kensho/satori experience I had back in college was drug free and way more intense/profound then anything I experienced experimenting with a few things in college

Having said that though If it wasn't for the slim chance of having a psychotic break or hurting yourself in some way because you are hallucinating, I would suggest that everyone try shrooms at least once I think most studies show the vast majority of people that experiment with them say they are glad they did it, and it has had a positive impact on their life...like 75% of people in one study I stumbled over years ago.

I do also like the taste of most edible mushrooms I've tried...and a friend grew some huge "magic" ones back in college...and I munched those like raw carrots...while my other friend took 30min trying to choke them down in teas, or mixed with peanut butter and all kinds of crap to cover the taste and puked or nearly so at least several times.

*Disclaimer* Do not eat unidentified mushrooms! ...and if you choose to trip, trip responsibly!

[JrayJ]

Imma raw carrot guy meself. Oh! and cool shrooms btw.

[Bananaslug]

May to early June along the Arkansas river in heavily wooded areas (west of keystone dam hiking trails for instance) when it's really really rainy and wet, there are tons of large blue mushrooms around. Might be those indigos? Dunno... But if you smash em in your hands it's like wringing out brght blue milky paint. They are pretty cool as far as I'm concerned. Dave, if you ever want to go on a morel hunt, I know some good places around here. Btw, way off subject, you ever done business with Sandstone Orchids out in bristow? I just picked up some nice macodes petola and some vine like creeping bulbophyllum gobiense. If you haven't checked that place out I would highly recomend it!

[dendrothusiast]

I agree as long as it comes off your own property it's fine. but i also agree wht's to say they're not toxic to other vivarium animals besides frogs?

it's still cool people are selling them - hopefully with info of their toxin levels. Hopefully people aren't buying them for digestion but more for their looks. I won't lie, I would buy some because they would look great for a viv and blue is my favorite color

[Dendro Dave]

Originally Posted by Bananaslug

May to early June along the Arkansas river in heavily wooded areas (west of keystone dam hiking trails for instance) when it's really really rainy and wet, there are tons of large blue mushrooms around. Might be those indigos? Dunno... But if you smash em in your hands it's like wringing out brght blue milky paint. They are pretty cool as far as I'm concerned. Dave, if you ever want to go on a morel hunt, I know some good places around here. Btw, way off subject, you ever done business with Sandstone Orchids out in bristow? I just picked up some nice macodes petola and some vine like creeping bulbophyllum gobiense. If you haven't checked that place out I would highly recomend it!

Huh, i never noticed any blue mushrooms around here in the woods, I'll have to take a look over that way next year.

Never heard of sandstone orchids, I hardly ever out that direction but if I am I'll definitely make a point of stopping by.