Good evening, friends, This past weekend I attended the Northeastern Mycological Federation’s Sam Ristich Annual Foray in Hyannis, MA. My...

Good evening, friends, This week’s mushroom is the Pear-shaped Puffball ( Apioperdon pyriforme ). While we’ve had a bit of a drought for...

Good evening, friends, This week we’re looking at a very attractive genus of fall mushrooms, the Scaly Caps ( Pholiota spp. ). We found...

Good evening, friends, We wrapped up another successful Friends of Fungi weekend in the Catskills and have a new mushroom to show for it....

Good evening, friends, This week’s mushroom is the Bear’s Head Tooth ( Hericium americanum ) which was all over the Adirondacks when I...

Good evening, friends, This past weekend I hiked thirty or so miles of the Northville-Placid Trail with my buddy Phil. The leaves were...

Good afternoon, friends, and Happy Labor Day. This week we’re going to look at one of the more colorful mushrooms in the woods, the...

Good evening, friends, This past weekend I had the privilege of leading a couple mushroom walks at the Adirondack Museum’s Mushroom...

Good evening, friends, Wow. After a patient wait this summer we finally received all that the rain promises and more. There has been a...

Good evening, friends, The past week of rain has led to plenty of fungal finds. The NYMS walk in Harriman State Park on Saturday produced...

Good evening, friends, I’ll be honest: this year going into Mycofest my stoke levels were lower than they had been in previous years....

Good evening, friends, Today we’re looking at a mushroom I’ve seen on each of the past four days, the straight-stalked entoloma (Entoloma...

Good evening, friends, Today we’ve got quite a funky fungus on our hands. This morning I found the Dog’s Nose Fungus (Camarops petersii)...

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

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

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

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...

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...

Good evening, friends, We wrapped up another great Friends of Fungi retreat with Catskill Fungi this past weekend. Each opportunity I get...

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