Created February 15, 2006, Revised June 29, 2006 and September 12, 2007
Copyright 1998-2007 by John W. Allen




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Ruminants and Their Shroom Habitats Suphanburi, Thailand Suphanburi Kuai (buffalo) Farm

 

Hello to all lovers of mushrooms. Here is a photographic essay of ome of the many habitats of Copelandia species and the non-active species, Psilocybe pegleriana. Also present were several groupings of Concoybe and a single specimen of Panaeolus antillrum. This Pictorial features images from the Kwai (Thai Buffalo Village Conservation Farm), habitat situated in Suphanburi, Thailand. I and my colleague, Dr. Prakitsin Sihanonth of Chulalongkorn University, along with Dr.Jittra Piapukiew of the Department of Biology, and several students have visited this kwai farm on two separate occasions in 2002 and again in 2004. On the first visit in 2004, my cameras batteries died and on a 2nd visit in 2004, I was able to photograph the small fruitings of the Copelandia species which we found in the manure heaps of the kwai. I also became stuck in a manure heap which, at ground level, sucked me down waist-deep alongside a large ten foot pile of manure. It took several people to help lift out of the heap due to my heavy weight. It was like stepping into quicksand and sinking. Some of these images of me were taken by Dr. Sihanonth and others by me, so that two trips to Suphanburi are combined here as one. School children from all over Thailand visit this farm to teach them of the necessity of having buffaloes in their country and of the many uses for which the buffalo are known for. There are approsimately sixty million water buffalo in Thailand, of which ten million are pink. They are used for plowing fields for crops such as rice and corn and other food staples used in Thailand, for transportation and for hauling heavy sundried items. And also some are trained for the annual buffalo fights, a popular recreational sport amongst Thai people.

The enterance into the Kwai Farm at Suphanburi, Thailand and some of the fetures of the Farm













A few images of the Kwai of Suphanburi







in the first image we see the author and student, shroom hunting. In the 2nd image, the author, a teacher and students hunt for Copelandia mushrooms, and in the 3rd image we see the manured compost of the Kwai.








The author finds Copelandia cyanescens in clay-like rocky soil where manure was previously dumped.







Copelandia cyanescens picked in the garden soil surrounding the shops and pathways of this farm.







The banmboo basket of Copelandia is from 2002 and the blue plastic container collection is from 2004.







Here and on Koh Samui we reported the presence of Psilocybe pegleriana.





A fine specimen of Panaeolus antillarum, a non-active shroom with a cosmopolitan distribution





Two images of a species of Conocybe also in the dung of the kwai at Suphanburi





Nearby the Kwai farm we found these Oyster mushrooms growing on a standing log in a shaded jungle area.





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