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Rising Star
My experience is that they like old alder or hardwood chips that are kind of disintegrating, crumbling with leaves into the duff under alders or rhodedendrons or other hardwoods. Blackberries are immaterial.
I personally choose to look for them in ecosystems like that where there is another quality as well: privacy and low traffic. I like to find private patches that other folks are not likely to find, I like to pick in peace, I don't like looking over my shoulder or explaining what I am up to, and I don't like to stress that idiots have found my patches and are tearing up the pins that I have left to mature a bit more. That means I typically hunt in the private, out-of-the-way spots (there are tons of those - I don't have enough time to search all the "right" hidden ecosystems just in my neighborhood) and so there are often also blackberries or wild roses or other prickly underbrush or overgrowth where I am looking. I often wear gloves and carry clippers.
Other hunters may look in hardwood chips in more groomed habitats at more well-landscaped parks (under the rhodies, in the parking strips around offices parks, on campuses, etc) and there are plenty of cyans to be found in those places, you just need to be more discreet and careful. The first Cyans I ever found were in a groomed garden bed in a popular park. They were right next to a waterfront walking path that has hundreds of walkers a day.
You will probably NOT find them:
- In dirt with zero chips or wood debris mixed in.
- In cedar or softwood chips.
- Under evergreen trees.
Look HERE for a couple of examples of nice finds in Seattle from the last week.
PS learn what Galerinas look like, they are poison and share the habitat.
I personally choose to look for them in ecosystems like that where there is another quality as well: privacy and low traffic. I like to find private patches that other folks are not likely to find, I like to pick in peace, I don't like looking over my shoulder or explaining what I am up to, and I don't like to stress that idiots have found my patches and are tearing up the pins that I have left to mature a bit more. That means I typically hunt in the private, out-of-the-way spots (there are tons of those - I don't have enough time to search all the "right" hidden ecosystems just in my neighborhood) and so there are often also blackberries or wild roses or other prickly underbrush or overgrowth where I am looking. I often wear gloves and carry clippers.
Other hunters may look in hardwood chips in more groomed habitats at more well-landscaped parks (under the rhodies, in the parking strips around offices parks, on campuses, etc) and there are plenty of cyans to be found in those places, you just need to be more discreet and careful. The first Cyans I ever found were in a groomed garden bed in a popular park. They were right next to a waterfront walking path that has hundreds of walkers a day.
You will probably NOT find them:
- In dirt with zero chips or wood debris mixed in.
- In cedar or softwood chips.
- Under evergreen trees.
Look HERE for a couple of examples of nice finds in Seattle from the last week.
PS learn what Galerinas look like, they are poison and share the habitat.
