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This page houses all Mushroom Monday newsletters archived for reference between 2020-2025.
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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, 2025


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, 2025


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, 2025


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, 2025


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, 2025


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, 2025


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, 2025


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, 2025


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, 2025


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, 2025


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, 2025


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, 2025


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, 2025


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, 2025


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, 2025


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, 2025


Barometer Earthstar (Astraeus smithii)
Good evening, friends, I took advantage of the rain yesterday and got out to look for mushrooms in the Frances A. Crane Wildlife...
Mar 25, 2025


St. Patrick's Day Edition and a quick trip to Boston's Chinatown
Good evening, friends, and Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! We’re going to deviate from the typical single species profile and lean into the...
Mar 17, 2025


Bark Bonnet - Mycena corticola
Good evening, friends, We return to Beebe Woods a week later and a good bit wetter. We experienced a substantial soaking this past...
Mar 10, 2025


Conifer Root Rot - Heterobasidion spp.
I took a stroll through Beebe Woods in Falmouth, MA last week on a day when temps were mild and we had just gotten a little rain.
Mar 3, 2025
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