Aus Myco Collective ◆ Road report
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Everything past this sign is spore material sold for microscopy and taxonomy. Nothing here is sold for cultivation or consumption, and we ship no live culture. You must be 18 or over. We do not ship to California, Georgia or Idaho.
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Aus Myco Collective ◆ three labs ◆ est. 2021
Spore syringes, prints and swabs from the three labs of the collective. Native subaeruginosa and eucalypta off the southern mulch beds, Panaeolus from the tropical north, and our own cubensis isolates and documented crosses. Sold for microscopy and taxonomy.
The wet country
Every specimen in the library carries the country it came off. Subaeruginosa is a southern wood chip animal, Panaeolus is a tropical dung animal, and the cubensis lines came out of Queensland pasture. Pick a zone and the map follows.
Off this country
Hover any specimen to see its spores at 400x. Every micrograph on this site is drawn to the published measurements for that species.
On the bench
Nothing in the library sits in a drawer waiting for an order. Prints are taken from fresh material, and every batch is looked at before it leaves.
Prints come off fresh specimens onto foil, dried down and sealed the same week. Syringes are drawn into sterile water and fitted with a luer lock, dated on the barrel.
Every batch gets a slide. We record spore load, dimensions against the published range for the species, and anything on the slide that should not be there. Off spec batches get pulled.
Isolates say what they were isolated from and crosses name both parents. If we cannot document a lineage we say so rather than inventing one, which is why some listings read thin.
We sell spore material for microscopy and taxonomy. No live culture, no mycelium, no spawn, and no cultivation advice anywhere on this site or from anyone answering the inbox.
The collective
Aus Myco is not one shed in one city. It is three collectors who each work the country they live in, and who swap material when the seasons flip from one end of the continent to the other.
Works the subtropical and tropical end: Panaeolus off the tableland pasture and the Queensland cubensis lines, including the Aussie Gold isolate the library is calibrated on.
The southern natives. Subaeruginosa, australiana and eucalypta off the mulch beds and forest litter, and most of the measuring work that keeps those three apart.
The cold island collections and the difficult end of the cubensis library: the two spored PE lines, the leucistic material and the reference lineages nobody else keeps in stock.
The southern season
The northern hemisphere calendar printed on imported material is six months out of step with this country. Down here the natives come up after the first real autumn rain, run hard through May and June, and stop entirely except in the tropics, where the Panaeolus season is the wet.
We list what we can document and we say so when we cannot. That is the whole difference between a library and a shelf of jars.
