Mushroom I.D. Help Please

mrm450mx

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Well a few months ago I ordered a grow kit and some cube spores and when the jar was fully collonized I went and planted it in my backyard. So I walk out today and find these growing in the grass all concentrated right where I buried the cake a while back. I'm assuming they are cubes but im not too sure...

By the way I live in Houston, Tx.
Also the spore print is definetely blueish purpleish...

Any ideas?
 

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mrm450mx

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nah stems are pretty much all brown and just get a little bit darker when they bruise...but the caps have a blueish tint to them when they bruise. I may also add Ive never seen shrooms grow like this in my backyard before and i've been in the same house for 12 years. That alone leads me to think they have to be from the cake I buried a few months ago...
 

polyarcturus

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i agree it doesnt look like a cube there would be a more even stem to cap ratio, those stems seem skinny and differently formed than a cube to me.

but to me they all look like LBM, cube or not, i would rather grow mine from spore to harvest than find them and try to identify them only to be wrong, cause if i did want to do that i would have to read some books and papers on mycology on how to do so and make it my life long passion. mushroom identification, to me, is on par with say, wine tasting with a Russian roulette twist added to it.
 

ngrace

Active Member
Poison Poison Poison, unsure of name but a Chinese lady killed her parents here with them by accident after they spent the day picking them they cooked a meal, she was younger so survived just
 

canndo

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Very simply - if your stems don't bruise blue (or green but I don't want to send you there - I don't know what other mushrooms might tend to bruise green) then they are NOT cubensis. Period, full stop. there are two defining non-microscopic characteristics of p. Cubensis. One is the purple brown spore print and the other is a blueing reaction - however slight, on the stem. These are both essential characteristics of this species and you don't get to over look it with "oh, it bruised brown a little bit" and then even consider that you have the mushroom you are looking for. These threads come all too often. Even if you planted the mushroom yourself, you can't be sure unless you check (as you did). But just because you never saw other mushrooms growing there before - no matter how many years, doesn't mean that other mushrooms won't don't or didn't grow there.
 
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