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Club members gather around to discuss the day's fungi finds.

Gymnopilius gills, with a little stipe.

Gymnopilius gills with clumps of spores along the edges, and a bit of the stipe

Pores of a "ishnodema-like" fungi, with little white droplets of fluid.

IMA Survey with many of my favorite mushroom people today. #fungi #hongos #fungifriends #mushrooms #illinoismycologicalassociation

Tiny dried cap of a Lacterius sp. fungi sitting in the palm of a hand.

Riding in on the blue line today, the car smelled lovely, like maple syrup and pancakes. Turns out I had a candy cap mushroom in my hoodie pocket. Don't remember picking it #mushroomproblems #fungifriends #hongos #mushrooms #pocketsurprise #mushrooms

Two fungi friends trying to knock a hericoum fungi out of a tree

Neat black crust fungi on a stick

Layered polypores on a tree

White fungi gills with tiny insects between them

NAMA New England 2025, AKA fungi fun in Vermont. #NAMA #mushrooms #fungi #hongos #mushroompeoplearethebestpeople #fungifriends

Amanita mushroom with a yellow cap, yellow veil remnant (the ring on the stipe), and a stipe with various textures.

Amanita abrupta: white mushroom with spiky, warty cap and a very broad stipe at the base.

Amanita, possibly velatipes, mushroom l. Tan to yellow cap with warts, thick stipe and a slightly bulbous cup at the base

Gills of a Cortinarius mushroom that are thickly covered in brown spores.

Survey at Miami Woods Forest Preserve with @illinoismyco.bsky.social . Amanitas and spore-ing gills. #fungi #mushrooms #hongos #fungifriends #illinoismycologicalassociation

Laccaria trullasata gills, purple. Mushroom fruit body @tolleston dunes

Amanita gills @tolleston dunes

Lovely gills on display today at the #smithforay #fungi #mushrooms #fungifriends #hongos #setas

#fungifriends #mushrooms #hongos #setas #illinoismycologicalassociation

Cortinarius rubripes mushroom with toy badger for scale

Cortinarius sp. With purple stipe and gills with toy badger for scale

Callistosporium purpureomarginatum, lovely bright red/purple fungi, with a light yellowish edge.

Laccaria ochropurpurea mushroom, very wide base with a little cap.

Another lovely day in the woods with friends!

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Fun times in the lab last week! WTTW visited.

An exceedingly large puffball mushroom, Calvatia gigantia, covers a stovetop.

An #illinoismycologicalassociation friend found this beast of a fungi. Shoved it in a fridge, fingers crossed it stays fresh enough to display at the #Chicagobotanicgarden Fungi Show this Sunday. #mushroompeoplearethebestpeople #mushrooms #fungi #hongos #fungus

Fungi in mulch next to a fire hydrant.

Young fungi in mulch

Leucoagaricus americanus, a favorite mulch loving fungi. They stain red. #fungi #mushrooms #hongos #gooutside

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A lovely reading spot on a lovely day. #readbannedbooks #seminarycoopbookstore #booksky #gooutside

Tiny orange fungi, rickanella fibula, growing in moss. Toy badger for scale.

Patch of moss in pine duff, With tiny orange fungi, rickanella fibula.

Closer look at Rickanella fibula gills against a white background.

Blue trail markers being grown around by a tree. Also known as Edaphoecotropism. The process in which living tissue, such as a treetree surrounds or engulfs objects.

Rickanella fibula, teensy, tiny moss fungi. On the Owasippe Scout Camp blue trail #moss #mushroom #hongo #fungi #Edaphoecotropism

Craterellus type chanterelle, bright yellow stipe with paler ridges

Chanterelle with packed, forking ridges. Bright yellow cap with slightly muted underside

Phasmatis type chanterelle. Bright yellow cap, with creamy white underside and deep ridges

Cinabrinus chanterelle, peachy pink with sharp ridges.

Hiked part of the Red trail at Owasippe Scout Camp yesterday and found 4 kinds of chanterelles #mushrooms #fungi #hongos #outsidewithmykiddoandpals

Galiella rufa fungi, brown bulbous cup with a cream top, on a stick being held in a hand.

Pleurotus sp., oyster mushrooms, white fungi with gill side showing.

Pleurotus citrinopileatus, golden oyster fungi, cluster of fungi with white gills showing below yellow caps.

Schizophyllum commune, split gill fungi, with very fuzzy caps

Another survey with @illinoismyco.bsky.social at Brunner Family Forest Preserve in Kane County. #fungi #mushrooms #hongos #illinoismycologicalassociation

Climacodon septentrionalis - Wikipedia

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iNaturalist page on Gymnopus subsulphureus featuring a picture of the fungi that I took.

iNaturalist page on Caulorhiza hygrophoroides featuring a picture of the fungi that I took.

Highlight of my day is finding out a second species on iNat features one of my pictures. #fungi #mushrooms #iNaturalist

Golden oyster fungi, pleurotus citrinopileatus, clusters on stump and log.

Large cluster of golden oysters with toy badger on top. White spores visible on cap surfaces

Thomas Roehl standing on a pile of logs, unable to safely get to log with large Lentinus tigrinus fungi in the Des Plaines River.

Top of Lentinus tigrinus fungi on well rotted stump.

Fun day in the field. The lab crew, some IMA folks and Thomas Roehl went looking for, and found, Lentinus tigrinus mushrooms for an ongoing project @Clark University. Pretty golden oysters too! #mushrooms #fungi #research #illinoismycologicalassociation

Heliocybe sulcata fungi with toy badger on stump.

Close up of Heliocybe sulcata fungi edge with pleats (sulcate)and stipe.

Heliocybe sulcata growing out of decaying log (decorticate, or without bark). Tail of toy badger.

Table full of fungi surrounded by members of the Illinois Mycological Association.

An IMA member found one of Dr. P. Leacock's "Most Wanted" fungi today!
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@illinoismyco.bsky.social

Toad in a garden

I grew up to be the kind of person who is ecstatic to have a garden toad.

YouTube video by WGN News Understanding Fungi & Wild Mushrooms of Illinois

Awesome former club president, and current scientific advisor Matt Nelsen was on WGN talking about fungi and The Last of Us. Thank you for the IMA shout out Matt! #fungi #mushrooms #cordyceps #iilinoismycologicalassociation #lastofus

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Three morel mushrooms and a toy badger

Morchella punctipes mushroom

Caulorhiza hygrophoroides mushroom

Gills of Caulorhiza hygrophoroides.

A fungi filled walk in the woods today.

Tiny Morel family fungi, with toy badger for scale

Trout lily flower

Galerina sp. fungi

It was a good day to be out in the woods and up to no good. #fungi #mushrooms #springephemerals #noticks

"sink the rich"poster with Killer Whale

"El Pendejo" with a photo of D. Trump

Protestors marching down LaSalle Street in Chicago

"This Machine Kills Fascists" on a guitar*quote from W. Guthrie

Don't tread on me flag, with a uterine theme

From Spanish "F*CK your MAGA

Department of education protest sign

"Hands off my daughter's IEP" on sign

Protesting. #handsoff #standupforscience #prochoice

I voted sticker, and voter ballot style slip from 2025 local election

Suburban local election early voting happening NOW. Election Day is April 1st here. Being involved with your school board elections is more important than ever.