Alan Rockefeller

Cirsium vinaceum is an extremely rare species of thistle that only grows in Otero County, New Mexico in high elevation wet areas. Quite a few plants were growing near a mountain spring that I explored today with the New Mexico Mycological Society.

An undescribed bioluminescent Mycena from Mycena sect. Sacchariferae, closely related to Mycena asterina found a few days ago in Monteverde, Costa Rica. Like Mycena asterina, only the cap glows.

#bioluminescence #mycena #mycology #fungifriends #fungi

YouTube video by Mycena Media Cell Phone Photography

A video on how to take good mushroom photos with a cell phone

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#photography #mushrooms #fungi #cellphonephotography

Most cup fungi don't fluoresce a lot, but ultraviolet light reveals unusual chemistry in this unknown Helotiales from Monteverde, Costa Rica.

#FluorescentFungi #Monteverde #CostaRica #Mycology #UVPhotography #Fluorescence #FieldMycology #fungifriends

Inocybe "citrifolia", an undescribed Inocybe from California, Oregon and Idaho. This species is easy to identify due to its orange color scheme.

Collected in Santa Cruz County in April, 2022, sequenced by @mycota.lab.

iNat # 110466630

#inocybe #dnabarcoding #fungifriends #mycology #mushrooms

Mycena sp. 'amicta-HRL01' - A species in the Mycena amicta group with only two observations on iNaturalist, both in the east bay area, California, USA.

Sequenced recently by @mycota.lab.

Mushroom Observer # 439854 / iNaturalist # 84403145

#mycena #mycology #dnabarcoding #fungifriends #mushrooms

Mycena citricolor on a Rubiaceae leaf - found today in Monteverde, Costa Rica.

#mycena #mycology #mushrooms #costarica #fungifriends

Beauveria

Beauveria in UV

Beauveria sp. found last night in Monteverde, Costa Rica on a Saturniidae caterpillar. In white light and 365 nanometer UV light.

Mushroom Observer # 579083 / iNaturalist # 299745988

#mushrooms #mycology #beauveria #cordyceps #fungifriends #costarica

I used a macro lens with a 2x teleconverter so it's about 6x magnification - almost a microscope but it's an Olympus OM-1 camera + 90mm macro lens. They were really tiny, about 1 mm across.

A tiny Favolaschia found yesterday in Monteverde, Costa Rica. These are basically in Mycena and will probably be moved into Mycena soon - the alternative is to split Mycena up into a whole bunch of similar looking genera.

#mycology #fungi #fungifriends #favolaschia

Mushroom foray at a biological research station in the Monteverde Cloud Forest of Costa Rica July 20 - 26.

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I have tried lots of different types of black velvet for photography and this one is my favorite. It is thicker and more durable than most other black velvet that I have tried, and absorbs light from more angles.

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YouTube video by Mycena Media Checking mushrooms for radioactivity

Checking my collections for radioactivity using a detector containing a sodium iodide crystal doped with thallium

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YouTube video by Mycena Media Alan Rockefeller's photography backpack

A video showing what I carry in my photography backpack when I go out into the field.

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#mycology #photography

YouTube video by Mycena Media Alan Rockefeller's photography backpack

A video showing what I carry in my photography backpack when I go out into the field.

youtu.be/hro4JLoqQpc

Sarcodes sanguinea seen yesterday near Lake Tahoe, California.

Slate Gorge, Provo, Utah.

Lentinellus montanus with cool rhizomorphic orange mycelium. Found yesterday at Donner Pass, California, USA.

#fungifriends #photography

DNA verified Sclerotiniaceae sp. ‘CA02’ growing on a tan oak acorn in Sonoma County, California. The third known observation of this apparently rare and likely undescribed species. Sequenced by Mycota Lab.

iNat 229196445 / MO 489006

#fungi #ascomycota #macro #fungifriends

Morchella brunnea from the Tahoe National Forest.

Under white fir, Jeffrey pine and incense cedar, 4800 feet elevation.

iNat 280158813 / MO 573939

#morchella #fungi #fungifriends #ascomycota

Sarcodes sanguinea found yesterday in the Tahoe National Forest. This mycoheterotrophic plant parasitizes Rhizopogon ellenae and is endemic to California, northern Bana California and southern Oregon and fruits in the spring, often near morels.

#botany #sarcodes #mycoheterotrophic #photography

I'm excited to be leading 2 spring mushroom hunts in the Sierra Nevada with @forkinthepath on June 7 & 8. We will be looking for morels & porcini while learning about photographing mushrooms & Sierra Nevada ecology. More info at www.forkinthepath.org/classes

Entoloma quadratum from the White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire in August of 2023. ID verified by DNA barcoding at Mycota Lab.

This species was described in 1859 in New England, just a couple years before the civil war.

iNaturalist # 178764994 / MO # 550987

#fungifriends #fungi

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Entoloma sp. ‘IN13’ photographed in Harford County, Maryland. Sequenced by Mycota Lab.

MO 525589 / iNat 176624713

#mycology #dnabarcoding #fungi #fungifriends

Callistosporium pseudofelleum, an extremely fluorescent little white mushroom that is really easy to identify with UV light.

From Harford County, Maryland. Sequenced by Mycota Lab.

iNat 176666288 / MO 525590

#fungifriends #mycology #dnabarcoding #uvphotography

In the field I thought this was Infundibulicybe gibba, but I just got a DNA barcode back from Mycota Lab and this turned out to be Infundibulicybe squamulosa. I. gibba has a lighter cap color and prefers hardwoods while I. squamulosa grows under conifers.

iNat 178021816 / MO 526599

#fungifriends

Hygrocybe "parvula-PNW01" photographed in New Hampshire and sequenced by Mycota lab. Hygrocybe parvula was described from New York in 1875, so it's likely that this is the real H. parvula.

MO 526630 / iNat 178299999

#mycology #fungifriends #dnabarcoding

Pseudolaccaria fellea photographed in New Hampshire and sequenced by Mycota Lab.

I tried to take a UV photo in bright daylight by holding black velvet over the mushroom, but it fell in the middle of the shot.

MO 526648 / iNat 178321686

#fungifriends #mycology #uvphotography

I see this, but I am not sure which thread this is in response to, so I don't know what to think!