Growing in a hermit crab tank. It's a warm, humid environment. It's coconut substrate
on Dogwood
Waiting on spore print + scope pics.
Voucher Number(s): 8039
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/137710137
Steves obs
he says V8309
Pileus: (3) - (57)mm, hemispheric when young, rarely subplane in age, hygrophanous, staining strongly bluish. gills attached, sets of short gills of differing lengths.
Stipe: exannulate, staining bluish to blackish, hollow in age, base strongly rhizomorphic.
Spores: ellipsoid to mango shaped (9.2)10-13(14.6) by 5.7-7.3(9.7) microns. dark purple-brown in deposit.
Cheilocystidia: 19-31 by 5.3-8.6 microns occasionally bifurcate, very rarely trifurcate.
Pleurocystidia: absent or very rare. a few bifurcate structures observed that might be pleurocystidia.
Basidia: 26-32 microns. all basidia appear to be 4 spored.
Bioassay: strongly active.
Found under a holly bush in man-made mulch at the edge of a lawn. The spores are larger than Psilocybe baeocystis.
Microscopy photos by Alan Rockefeller. Additional microscopic measurements and photos by Workman (sporeworks), in 2007.
Growing on a rotting hardwood branch. Smells faintly sweet.
Found by a member of Midwest Psilocybin Hunters Facebook group
Small stature, kind of felty cap, ellipsoid spores all lead me to believe these are psilocybe caerulipes samples have been sent for DNA to Alan Rockefeller and Stephen Russell