Good evening, friends, Today’s mushroom I found just this morning: the Brown-Toothed Crust Fungus (Hydnoporia olivacea).

Good evening, friends, I’m down in the Florida Keys visiting family for the holiday and have poked around on the limited land surface in...

Good evening, friends, The mystery of mushrooms is what draws a lot of people into the study of mycology. When I started learning about...

Good evening, friends, Yet another dry week. Even though we received a touch of rain on Sunday night (~.1 in), smoke from nearby...

Good evening, friends, Another dry week, but when life gives us lemons we squeeze them into lemonade and quench our first. Today we’ll...

Good evening, friends, It’s been dry out there, historically dry. Barring unforeseen showers, October 2024 will go down as the driest...

Good evening, friends, Oh boy has it been dry and dusty. Fresh mushrooms are few and far between, but you can still find dried up...

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)...