Good morning, friends, This past Thursday, a group of amateur mycologists joined Dr. Erik Kiviat of Hudsonia Ltd. to look for mushrooms in a landscape where you might expect to find bodies instead. The New Jersey Meadowlands is an urban wetland ecosystem just a few miles west of Manhattan that serves not only as a home for roughly 300 species of birds, 50 species of fish, and an untold number of mushrooms, but also as a dump for the excesses of all the industrial (and organi

Good evening, friends, This week's mushroom is the Wrinkled Crust (Phlebia radiata). I first found this mushroom up in Manitou on...

Good evening, friends, This week's fungus is the Trembling Crust (Phlebia tremellosa - also known as Merulius tremellosus on iNaturalist...