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Bi-Color Bolete (Baorangia bicolor)
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...
Sep 1, 2024


Mushroom Mania and the Adirondack High Peaks
Good evening, friends, This past weekend I had the privilege of leading a couple mushroom walks at the Adirondack Museum’s Mushroom...
Aug 27, 2024


Ornate-stalked bolete (Retiboletus ornatipes)
Good evening, friends, Wow. After a patient wait this summer we finally received all that the rain promises and more. There has been a...
Aug 18, 2024


Fragile Dapperling (Leucocoprinus fragilissimus)
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...
Aug 12, 2024


Mycofest 2024 - Finds from the Weekend
Good evening, friends, I’ll be honest: this year going into Mycofest my stoke levels were lower than they had been in previous years....
Aug 5, 2024


Entoloma strictius - Straight Stalked Entoloma
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...
Jul 28, 2024


Dog Nose Fungus - Camarops petersii
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)...
Jul 21, 2024


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
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