While in San Francisco, this species is somewhat common in Golden Gate and other parks in wood chips of alder and other mixed hard woods,I first found and collcted this mushroom in Seattle over 26 years ago in one large cluster or 140 mushrooms and those were sent to Guzman and deposited and completely set aside on an herbarium sheet.

Now, I just found a large collection for the 2nd time in 26 years.

Specimens have been sent to Guzman in Mexico for taxonomy, Chula in Bangkok, Thailand for SEM photos and to Workman for some more microscopic examination.

This is most likely the same mushroom which people are finding in San Francisco which they call Psilocybe cyanofriscosa

Well I hate to be a spoil sport.

I gave Guzman a collection of these from Seattle in 1982. Haven't seen them since until this morning at about 8:30 am (last Saturday).

Today I found a mother lode. Left it and mailed some express overnight deliveries to Guzman in Mexico and To Bangkok for some SEM work since I am not there to do it myself.

It is possible that Guzman might name this species in my name as Psilocybe allenii.

He originally was going to name the P. ovoideocystidiata as Psilocybe allenii and then realized my collections from Bethany were already named 6 months prior to my sending him the specimens, so he said he would use another species from the PNW.

Anyway, I took over 180 photos. There were thousands of them fruiting in a place where no one will rip them off or tear up the turf. So I can photograph them as they grow. These were found in Magnolia in Northwest Seattle.

I used both a Nikon Cool-Pix 4300 and a Panasonic Lumix for the photos/

I am only posting five images of 180 photos I took in 3 days of more than 229 photos

3 with my Nikon Cool-Pix 4300







mjshroomer

3 more of this as yet unnamed species from Seattle and SF, California: With my Nikon Cool-Pox 4300.







boomer2

2 images with my Panasonic Lumix I bought two years ago and have not taken more than 80 photos with it.





And here is an SEM (Scanning Electron Microscopy) image of Psilocybe cyanofriscosa from a collection given to me by Warrior Soul of San Francisco to do SEM work on. Size: 15 K V X 5,000.

It apparently wil not post the BMP image here.

I will see if I can transform it to a jpeg.

boomer2

And here is an SEM (Scanning Electron Microscopy) image of Psilocybe cyanofriscosa from a collection given to me by Warrior Soul of San Francisco to do SEM work on. Size: 15 K V X 5,000.

It apparently will not post the BMP image here.

I will see if I can transform it to a tiff.

Well I tried toi post it five different times and everything is not allowed so I am sorry you won't get to see one of the SEM's of this species.

It wouldn't allow a bmp or PSD or a Tiff.

And I cannot seem to convert the BMP to a Jpeg

boomer2

The board is setup to allow the following image extensions - gif, jpeg, jpg, png, tga, tif & tiff
The max file size is 256k.

If your SEM (Scanning Electron Microscopy) image of Psilocybe cyanofriscosa does fit the above restrictions and still isn't working, send the pic to me @ kemp@spiritplants.org and I can try to fix it.

Would love to see it and get it posted.

And here are boomer's SEM pics -




btw - Great pics all around!

I was just researching this species this week noticed a resembalance to Cyans and Azures except for the cyclone growing pattern. Great find ... Great to see your work Boomer2 haven't seen you at the nook. I found this posting in a web search about Cyanofriscosa. Awsome to have this one named Allenii..Cyclone Allenii. I'll be sure to visit soon I see you've been hard at work here...much reading to do