Created February 15, 2006, Revised June 29, 2006 and September 13, 2007
Copyright 1998-2007 by John W. Allen




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Approximately 200 feet above the Earth in a Hot-Air Balloon facing Angkor Wat, Cambodia. Shrooms appear in the manure of four-legged ruminants and in the manured soil of the green areas and jungle.




 

Ruminants and their Shroom Habitats Angkor Wat Kampuchea (Cambodia)

Hello to all lovers of mushrooms. Here is a photographic essay of more than 30 images taken between 1999 and 1006. They represent some of the habitats and ruminants whose manure and manured soil brings us fruitings of Psilocybe cubensis/Psilocybe subcubensis, Copelandia cyanescens, Psilocybe antioquensis, Psilocybe samuiensis, as well as Panaeolus antillarum. Also featured are some of the children who sell bracelets and rings who help collect wild mushrooms, both edible and magic, including some unidentified species found at various locations in manure heaps and/or grassy areas of manured sandy or red-clayed soil. These fungi occur inside and outside of the many temple compounds at Angkor Wat and other ancient temples in and around Xiem Riap, Cambodia. And throughout the country

In a Cambodian Airliner approaching Xiem Riap and Angkor Wat, Kampuchea. very green fetile shroom soil down below as one can see. In jungl;e green areas are the cattle and buffalo and farmers.




Here we have the temple of Angkor Wat and cattle (Goh) grazing in front of the temple on the right side of the temple's stone walkway.








A Brahman cow and an Asian Water buffalo.




Left image of some horses at Angkor Wat. Right Image of horse by library on rightside of walkway to the main temple of Angkor Wat.




Bracelet and book selling children and a monk help in the harvest of Copelandia mushrooms at temple.

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Left image of a basket of Copelandia cyanescens. Right Image is of three diffenet shrooms in one Goh ( cow) pie. 1). C. cyanescens., 2). P. coprophila., and 3). Panaeolus sphinctrinus.





First and 2nd image are Psilocybe cubensis in situ. the third image was grown from their spores





In July of 2005, I found a small collection identified by Gastón Guzmán as Psilocybe samuiensis.





Panaeolus antillarum found at the elephant dung dump site in Xiem Riap.







Panaeolus sphinctrinus growing from a burlap sack of elephant dung hidden in the corner of a giant teree trunk by the elephants lazy caretaker.





On the left a young Lepiota mushroom. Onthe Right a beautiful unidentifed Pink Mushroom.





Locals on the road to the temples are selling edible wild mushrooms called Leah.







When hunting shrooms in Cambodia, one must avoid walking onto a land mine. See this one I came across.


A new way to plow the fields, Cambodian style.





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