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Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok on the Celebration of the Queens Birthday, 2003.
 

Ruminants and their Shroom Habitats Chulalongkorn University Department of Microbiology, Bangkok

 

Hello to all lovers of mushrooms. Here is a photographic essay of some specimens of Copelandia cyanescens growing onthe campus of Chulalongkorn Univerrsity in bangkok. Psilocybe semilanceata (liberty caps), Coprinus spp., and Panaeolus antilarum. "How did this happen?" one may ask?. During a recent walk along the garden pathway surrounding the Administration building at the Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Dr. Pakitsin Sihanonth noticed the occurrence of numerous small colonies of Copelandia cyanescens fruiting in the gardens of the office building. This was very similar to the finding of mass fruitings of Copelandia cyanescens in gardens at the Kwai Farm in Suphanburi, Thailand, where, in 2003, gardeners had used kwai (water buffalo) fertilizer to enhance the gardens topsoil at the kwai farm. Later, Dr. Sihanonth had learned that the gardeners at the university had added to the soil, several 10-20 pound bags of commercially mixed composting soil recently purchased at a public market in Bangkok. The fertilizer apparently was instrumental in enhancing the garden area surrounding the office and lab building at Chulalongkorn University and it was within several weeks after the fertilizer had been mixed with the surrounding topsoil, that Dr. Sihanonth had noticed the occurrence of the Copelandia mushrooms pictured below. The mushrooms completely surround the Department of Microbiology and were even found fruiting in front of the office of the Dean.

Copelandia cyanescens in the garden of the Department of Microbiology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok













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