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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 14, 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 8, 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 2, 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 24, 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 17, 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 10, 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


Trametes cinnabarina
Good evening, friends, Some snow in the northeast for once, that’s a nice change of pace. Before we fully delve into a new year of...
Jan 8, 2024


The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
Hello, friends, Without further ado, here is the first Mushroom Monday book report, delivered to you on Toadstool Tuesday. I’d first like...
Jan 2, 2024


Amanita muscaria and Christmas Lore
Hello, friends, and Merry Christmas! This is an impromptu prequel to the book report, an introduction to the mushroom the book (and...
Dec 25, 2023


Amanita lavendula - Coker's Lavender Staining Amanita
Good evening, friends, This will be the last traditional MM before I take the next month to craft the first ever Mushroom Monday book...
Nov 27, 2023


Radulomyces copelandii - Asian Beauty Fungus
Good evening, friends, This week’s mushroom is the Asian Beauty (Radulomyces Copelandii). Bit of a weird common name when I say it out...
Nov 20, 2023


Rosy Conk - Rhodofomes cajanderi
Good evening, friends, This week’s mushroom is the Rosy Conk (Rhodofomes cajanderi). We found this mushroom on the NYMS walk in Manitou...
Nov 13, 2023
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