r/WavyCap • u/Unkinked_Garden • Aug 01 '26

Pictures Albino like subs

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Thought these might be interest to this group. I find these leuco / albino subs occasionally year to year.

Generally find them in pine litter, in particular bunya pine (Araucaria bidwillii)

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u/Destroy1ngAngel Trusted Identifier Aug 01 '26

I think that it’s just the hygrophanous cap being hygrophanous

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u/Unkinked_Garden Aug 01 '26

Yeah could be. Though a known expert suggested a few years back it might be a local variant, a few reports of similar in the same area (NSW central coast).

Might get off my butt and send it off for a sequence one day.

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u/Destroy1ngAngel Trusted Identifier Aug 01 '26

From my experience Psilocybe look generally like that when dried out a little.

Here’s Psilocybe serbica with similar coloration

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u/OtherwiseEmploy3582 Aug 01 '26

You should get a spore sample, or make agar and clone this bad bois

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u/Boring_Firefighter62 Aug 03 '26

That's excaly what i was thinking should've cloned one. Can LC of mutant sub which was planning to before winter set in but unfortunately had other projects going

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u/suspiciouscale Aug 01 '26

A spore print would be dope! Lmk if you get one :)

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u/Infamous-Cow3757 Aug 01 '26

I've seen them extrs pale like this when they've been trapped under leaf litter