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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 28, 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 20, 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 7, 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 29, 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 22, 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 15, 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 9, 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 3, 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 25, 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 18, 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 11, 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


Veiled Panus - Tectella patellaris
Good evening, friends, This week’s mushroom is the Veiled Panus (Tectella patellaris). Not only did I find this fungus on the same branch...
Feb 26, 2024


Ochre Spreading Tooth - Steccherinum ochraceum
Good evening, friends, This week we’re going to keep with the crust-like fungi and learn about the Ochre Spreading Tooth (Steccherinum...
Feb 19, 2024


Rosy Crust - Peniophora incarnata
Good morning and happy Toadstool Tuesday, friends, The Monday after the Super Bowl is a holiday around the MM offices - I’m a progressive...
Feb 13, 2024


Phaeotremella frondosa
Good evening, friends, We’re keeping it gelatinous this week and looking at another jelly fungus, Phaeotremella frondosa. This mushroom...
Feb 5, 2024


Warlock's Butter - Exidia nigricans
Good evening, friends, This past week I made a vow that this publication is not going use mushrooms from the fall and summer during the...
Jan 29, 2024


The Brown Roll-Rim - Paxillus involutus
Good evening, friends, Well, no snow covered mushroom this week. Instead we’re dipping into the fall archive to look at the the Brown...
Jan 22, 2024


Daedalea quercina - Oak Mazegill
Good evening, friends, I hope you had a wonderful snow day and a pleasant, reflective Martin Luther King Jr. Day and weekend. I moved...
Jan 16, 2024
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