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09 Aug, 2009
My Review of Mushroom Magic
0 of 2 found this helpful As an expert in the field of ethnomycology, author of nine books and 30 papers on hallucinogenic fungi (see, http://www.mushroomjohn.org/articles.htm), I personally like books premise, but could never endorse it as reliable as comment on the back cover suggests it is a 'comprehensive guide.'
This book represents a collection of 94 full-paged watercolor renditions of magic fungi. However, I find the artist failed in his attempt to macroscopically bring to the viewer an honest interpretation of the species represented in this 'visionary guide.’ So to me, guide is not reliable to be used to identify psilocybine-containing fungi.
Also, the artist included in this guide, 9 species of fungi that are not psychoactive species, although some of those 9 species are noted in other field guides as possibly active. I also do not understand why paintings of inactive species are in this book.
In many paintings, stems are too fat, thick or to skinny to belong to actual species and many caps on said species appear to have shapes either too large and bulbous or look nothing like the actual mushrooms he has painted.
HE also presents an incorrect representation of Psilocybe cyanescens, known to recreational users by the epithet, ‘wavy caps’ and while the cap, when mature becomes wavy, its edges turn upward and outward. However, in his image the cap is shown to have an incurved margin in a semi-wavy stage. However, in P. cyanescens, the margin is only incurved in young specimens. Once the caps become wavy, there is no incurved margin as shown in his image. Additionally, his sketches of the veil remnants on certain species found in the PNW and elsewhere throughout the world were enormously large and not representative of the species he drew.
His renditions of P. fimetaria, P. subfimetaria, P. stuntzii and P. silvatica are bad and do not macroscopically resemble those species at all. So is the case with many other rendered paintings in this book. Another example is his perfect life-like painting of a colony of Psilocybe semilanceata (liberty cap), a drawing that is well done. However, he drew a 2nd image of a cap of P. semilanceata with pure blue gills and that is incorrect. The gills of Psilocybe species never turn blue. Bluing is an indication of the presence of psilocine. It occurs in more than 200 recognized species of wild mushrooms. Some potent species shown an intense bluing reaction and some, like the liberty cap or Panaeolus subbalteatus, rarely exhibit any bluing whatsoever.
Mr. Roper also labeled Panaeolina foenisecii as a Psilocybe rather then identifying it as a brown-spored species belonging to the genera of Panaeolina. Panaeolus species have black spores and Panaeolina foenisecii has brown spores. They are two different genera.
I would also like to point out another discrepancy I came across in viewing this book.
There are two paintings of Panaeolina foenisecii. Both are referred to as belonging to the genus Panaeolus.
The first painting titled as Panaeolus foenisecii, kinda resembles a completely dried bell-shaped mushroom. In the 2nd image described as Panaeolus koenisecii , the bands of color on the cap of the mushrooms present a correct macroscopic interpretation of the species.. However, a typo occurs and the species is listed on the page of the book as Panaeolus koenisecii, a non-existing name for a species. The letter 'K' should have been an 'F.'
More surprisingly is the fact that one of the most promin
14 Feb, 2017
3D glasses
Was replacement for the glasses I lost when I stepped on them because I cannot see too good when I get a shot a month in one of my eyes due to bleeding in back of my left eyeball. I still cannot see to good to appreciate the 3D. Won't for many months to come until my eye is okay and then some and I get the cataracts lasered. Then I can tell you how I like them
03 Nov, 2011
About time someone put forth a truthful image of mob as no one did before.
Well I bought the dvd in Thailand several years back and while it was a bootleg, it was the same as a regular DVD, but mine came from a mall store with all the proper Thai copyrights in Thai on the cover and back of the case. I later learned that this was a more factual representation of the actual case that Al Pacino portrayed in Donnie Brasco. So I am not sure, but I liked it a lot more than the Pacino story. Well written, screenplay was perfect, the acting was superb and right on. The chemistry of the actors with one another and their direction by Moresco was outstanding. I was surprised. This, Outlander and Wolfhound were my three favorite movies of the last ten years after Avatar.
Whoever purchases this film will not be disappointed/