Alan Rockefeller

Joey from Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't and I are leading a two-week trip to Ecuador this February with local botanists, mycologists, and herpetologists. Details at www.mycena.llc

The trip includes workshops on plant and mushroom identification, taxonomy, and photography techniques.

Mushroom hunt this Sunday in Quito, Ecuador with the Mycophilic Association of Ecuador and UrbanFunga.

Cost: $1 USD
Sunday, November 30, 2025
10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Parque Metropolitano Guangüiltagua

Register here: forms.gle/qrgP8PQsiVL5...

I'm giving a talk on active mushrooms Dec 10 in Berkeley, California. Chad Hyatt will be there serving tacos.

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm - $20 in-person, $15 streaming

Metacampanella subdendrophora growing on scotch broom in Pacific County, Washington.

#metacampanella #mycology #macrophotography #fungi #fungifriends

Mycena tenerrima from Pacific County, Washington. This tiny and widespread Mycena is in Mycena sect. Sacchariferae due to the powdery cap texture, stem with long setae and disc at the stem base.

#fungi #mycology #mycena #fungifriends

What part of the world were they found in? Do you have a photo of the underside of a mature one?

Psilocybe azurescens in 365 nm ultraviolet light + white light. Seen a couple days ago in Pacific County, Washington.

#fungi #mycology #ultravioletphotography

Lactarius subgenus Russularia found 10 seconds ago in Aberdeen, Washington

#fungifriends #fungi #mushrooms

Alan Rockefeller Hogna sp. (wolf spider) photographed in Texas under 365 nanometer ultraviolet light. I still have Mycena ultraviolet lights for sale. $45 usd, USA shipping only. 365 nanometer LED, zwb2 filter,...

I use a bright 365 nm UV light. You can get them here: www.facebook.com/alanrockefel...

I don't know of anyone who has eaten this species - Inski ate a similar species in New Zealand and got a little sick.

This one doesn't get any bluer when bruised, so must be a different molecule.

Olympus OM-1 with 90mm Olympus macro lens. The first photo is 220 images stacked, second image is 22 images stacked with Helicon Focus method C. Both at ISO 200, f3.5.

An undescribed Mycena from the M. amicta group photographed yesterday in Aberdeen, Washington. This group of species is recognizable due to the blue colors, especially on the stem base and the conspicuous setae on the stem.

#fungi #mycology #fungifriends #photography

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.