Alan Rockefeller

An unknown parasite on Xylaria from Pastaza, Ecuador.

#mycology #fungi #fungifriends #xylaria

Thanks! This one was a little difficult because it started raining really hard as I was setting up my camera - I had some friends hold their raincoat over the tripod so I could get this shot without getting my gear too wet.

I saw lots of cool Psilocybe collections that you found along that road in the ENCB herbarium in Mexico City - I always wondered who Jim Jacobs was. I'd love to talk to you more about your Mexico travels - I'll be in the PNW next month, perhaps we can go mushroom hunting one afternoon.

Psilocybe yungensis that I found Feb '25 in Pastaza, Ecuador.

This species gets its name from the Yungas region of Bolivia, where it was discovered in 1958.

#fungi #fungifriends #psilocybe #mycology #photograhy

It's been a spectacular month in Colorado, but now it's time to head east for the Ohio Mushroom Festival.

I'll be leading forays and giving talks - hope to see you all there!

ohiomushroomfestival.com

Mycena "sp-AZ03" that Scott Ostuni spotted near Fox Mountain, Colorado last year. I just got a sequence of it back from Mycota Lab. This probably undescribed species currently only known from Colorado and Arizona.

iNat 235426392 / MO 556415

#fungi #mycena #mushrooms #fungifriends

Trichoderma

The first known photo of Trichoderma sp. ‘TX01’ - a rare and probably undescribed species of Trichoderma I collected on a vine in Texas in November, 2022. The only match in Genbank is an unnamed collection from Florida.

iNat 140831069 / MO 581563

#fungi #trichoderma #dnabarcoding #fungifriends

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

youtu.be/t4MvG5nMaEM

#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

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

youtube.com/shorts/h1o8F...

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

#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