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Azalea Gall - Exobasidium spp.
Good evening, friends, This week’s fungus is another one from Cape Cod, the Azalea Gall (Exobasidium spp). On our walk in Central Park...
Jul 14, 2024


Sunset Shelf - Pseudomerulius curtisii
Good evening, friends, A broken computer pushed us from MM to TT, but we’re back online this week with Pseudomerulius curtisii. The...
Jul 8, 2024


White Tubelet (Henningsomyces candidus)
Good evening, friends, This week’s mushroom is perhaps the smallest visible mushroom we’ve seen on MM: the White Tubelet (Henningsomyces...
Jun 30, 2024


Entomophaga maimaiga - The Spongy Moth Caterpillar Killer
Good evening, friends, This week we look at a fungus that we can’t visually see, but one that is actively helping our native trees. Not...
Jun 25, 2024


Red-Cracking Bolete (Xerocomellus spp.)
Good evening, friends, This mushroom comes to us as a pleasant surprise. Saturday morning we went for a quick walk in the woods to find a...
Jun 16, 2024


Lion Shield - Pluteus leoninus
Good evening, friends, We wrapped up another great Friends of Fungi retreat with Catskill Fungi this past weekend. Each opportunity I get...
Jun 10, 2024


Water Club - Vibrissea truncorum
Good evening, friends, This week’s mushroom is a follow-up from last weekend in the White Mountains, the Water Club mushroom (Vibrissea...
Jun 2, 2024


Wild River Wilderness in the White Mountain National Forest
Good evening, friends, I hope you all had a lovely Memorial Day Weekend. I visited my friend Phil, a former roommate/coworker from the...
May 27, 2024


Mower's Mushroom (Panaeolus foenisecii)
Good evening, friends, This week’s mushroom is the Mower’s Mushroom (Panaeolus foenisecii). I encountered this mushroom a couple times...
May 19, 2024


Multiflora Rose Rust - Phragmidium rosae-multiflorae
Hey friends, It’s been nice to see gregarious, gilled mushrooms pop up around the woods - we’ve got Platterful Mushrooms (Megacollybia...
May 13, 2024


Yellow Morel (Morchella americana)
Good evening, friends, I returned from my friend’s wedding (both bride and groom are long-time readers, congrats Miles and Rachel) with...
May 6, 2024


Cladonia - British Soldier Lichen
Good evening, friends, After the psychedelic find last week, things slowed down for me on the mushroom end. I checked a couple spots...
Apr 28, 2024


Psychedelic Ovoid - Psilocybe ovoideocystidiata
Good evening, friends, and Happy Earth Day! What an Earth Day MM we have today. I concluded last week’s email by saying I had a feeling...
Apr 21, 2024


Hairy Bracket (Trametes Hirsuta)
Well folks, we’ve left the humid jungle and are back to the regular - don’t say boring - late winter/early spring fungal lull. Today’s...
Apr 14, 2024


Total Toadstool Tuesday
Good evening, friends, It’s another atypical week at the MM offices as we were boots on the ground in Newport, VT yesterday for the total...
Apr 8, 2024


Mushroom Miércoles: Hongas de Ecuador - A Fungal Foray in the Amazon
Good evening, friends, I just made it back from Ecuador and wrapped up a week of mushroom exploration in the jungle. What a tremendous...
Apr 2, 2024


Chaz Hing and the 12 Vanishing Tumors - A Mushroom Monday Project
Hey friends, About a month ago I caught wind of an impressive, borderline miraculous, story of a man who used mushrooms to treat his...
Mar 24, 2024


Porodisculus pendulus
Good evening, friends, This week we’re shrinking down and looking at a tiny little polypore without a common name, Porodisculus pendulus....
Mar 17, 2024


Scarlet Cups (Sarcoscypha spp.)
Good evening, friends, This week we get a blast of color in the form of Scarlet Cups (Sarcoscypha spp.). I found these vibrantly red cups...
Mar 10, 2024


Winter polypore - Lentinus brumalis
Good evening, friends, With acknowledgement that it was 60 and sunny yesterday, and that I did indeed break out the shorts and sandals,...
Mar 4, 2024
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