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Dried fungi in tissue paper with collection sheet and Herbarium label

Closeup of dried fungi with slight purple tinge

Original fresh fungi picture, fungi held in hand with plants and sand behind

Same fungi, fresh with purple underside clearly shown, sand and plants behind

Spent today packaging specimens from the September 2025 Smith Foray. This Laccaria trullisata pictured both fresh, and dry, has been sequenced. It always makes me happy to see things I collected entering the Herbarium. #fungi #mushrooms #smithforay #hongos

Pinned 17 year cicadas, in box, with museum labels.

Finally got the Massospora cicadina infected 17 year cicadas pinned in the box for the Herbarium.

Back and side view of an aluminum chair with a red cushioned back and seat

Side and front view of an aluminum chair with a red cushioned back and seat .

Found another FLW chair in the Bruce Goff exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Image of four, brown, oak wood, early Frank Lloyd Wright (FLW) chairs.

Image of 5 mid career FLW chairs, light oak and complex, to dark wood with very simple looking designs.

Three FLW chairs, one in the background, two made of plywood with a very angular design. On the wall are the pattern pieces cut out of plywood to illustrate what is needed to produce the chairs.

Spun aluminum FLW bistro chairs, designed for the Guggenheim museum, but never before produced.

The Museum of Wisconsin Art, MOWA, has a whole exhibit on the chairs of Frank Lloyd Wright for a few more weeks. #MOWA #Franklloydwright

Acrylic rainbow art piece with dried fungi by #heylookmushrooms

Two attendees wearing mushroom costumes they made, standing outdoors with vintage mushroom replicas in a teaching box from the Field Museum

Myself and Ken with the Illinois Mycological Association merchandise table outside under an oak tree

Left to right, A Park District staff member, Connor and Ellen standing around a table with crocheted mushrooms and other drawing prizes

Spent the day talking fungi at the first Central Illinois Fungi Fest in Urbana today. Ellen and Connor and the Urbana Park District put on an excellent event. #fungi #mushrooms #hongos #illinoismycologicalasdociation #mushroompeoplearethebestpeople

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

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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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Toad in a garden

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

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

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