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Flat Crep (Crepidotus applanatus)
Good evening, friends, This Saturday I was back down in New York for a wedding (congratulations Charlie and Claire) and got to catch up...
Aug 11


Yellow Unicorn Entoloma (Entoloma murrayi)
This week’s mushroom is the yellow unicorn Entoloma (Entoloma murrayi). I’ve wanted to write about this conspicuously conical mushroom since I found it for the first time in the Adirondacks back in July, and that was before another fortuitous encounter in the Catskills just last weekend.
Aug 4


Vernooy Kill State Forest and Slide Mountain Wilderness
Good evening, friends, This past week I returned to New York state because I guess I didn’t get enough camping and mushrooming when we...
Jul 28


Chrome-footed Bolete (Harrya chromipes)
This week’s mushroom comes to us from the Cape Cod Mycological Society walk that took place this past Saturday in Dennis, MA.
Jul 21


Toadstools and Trail Tales - The Northville-Placid Trail: Piseco to Lake Placid
Good evening, friends, Sunday night, at around 9PM, Ciara and I returned home after an adventurous thru-hike in the Adirondack Mountains....
Jul 15


Fishbiscuit brittlegill (Russula compacta complex)
Good morning, everyone, How about that? A good morning? First time in a long time — I don’t quite remember the last time I sent out a...
Jul 7


Poor Man's Licorice (Bulgaria inquinans)
This week’s mushroom found me just as I was trying to cultivate a different type of mushroom. While this happened just this past...
Jul 1


The Veiled Oyster (Pleurotus dryinus)
Good evening, friends, This past week was one that featured many different mushrooms — a few which I had never seen before — and...
Jun 23


Orange-yellow Marasmius (Marasmius strictipes)
This past weekend we gathered in a hollow of Panther Mountain in Phoenicia, NY for the biannual Friends of Fungi retreat.
Jun 17


So You Want to Be a Mushroom Observer? - The Life and Times of Nathan Wilson, Founder of MushroomObserver.org
“How many mushrooms around here actually are edible?” It was just a few minutes before closing at the coffee shop where I was writing...
Jun 9


Maine Fungi Festival
Good evening, friends, This past weekend I travelled up to Standish, Maine and the banks of Sebago Lake where the Maine Fungi Festival...
Jun 3


Burn Beacons (Lachnum pygmaeum)
Good evening, friends, This week we’re going back to the burn to examine another peculiar little mushroom. I found these burn beacons...
May 27


Charcoal Eyelash (Anthracobia melaloma)
Good evening, friends, I found this week’s mushroom both yesterday and today as I poked around a couple burn sites from last fall’s...
May 20


Mayapple Rust (Allodus podophylli)
Mayapple Rust ( Allodus podophylli ) Good evening, friends, This week’s fungus is one I’ve wanted to write about for years. I first found...
May 13


Half-free Morel (Morchella punctipes)
Good evening, friends, This week’s mushroom is the half-free morel ( Morchella punctipes ) which we found last weekend at Morelfest ....
May 5


MorelFest 2025 - Searching for morels in the woods of Pennsylvania
“We need some rain”, I say as we pick our way through the parched woodlands at Wave Hill last Friday. I said this offhandedly and didn’t...
May 1


Resin drops (Zythia resinae)
Good evening, friends, Today’s mushroom comes to us from a walk this past week in Harwich, MA with renowned mushroomer Larry Millman ....
Apr 21


The Veiled Polypore (Cryptoporus volvatus)
Good morning, friends, This week’s mushroom comes to us from a rainy day a couple weeks ago in Beebe Woods in Falmouth, MA. The nice...
Apr 15


Teal Conifer Pin (Dendrostilbella smaragdina) and the Mary Banning Exhibition
Good evening, friends, This week’s mushroom comes from the same walk as last week’s Stereum , but this one required a bit more...
Apr 8


Bleeding Conifer Crust (Stereum sanguinolentum)
Good evening, friends, This past Saturday* I met up with my new friend Nathan (founder of mushroomobserver.org ) to look for mushrooms at...
Mar 31
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