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Mushroom lady livin' and lovin' in the greater Chicagoland area. https://www.instagram.com/oldhagofthewoods/
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Tis the season, baby! Morchella americana (American yellow morel) spotted on Saturday in NW Ohio. You better bet I ate it. #fungifriends

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FINALLY! First fresh fungus of spring 2025! Hexagonal-pored polypore making geometry majors everywhere scratch their heads! #fungifriends Pic taken 4/5/25 south of Chicago

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

A pair of little puffballs, adorned with studs. Pic taken last May south of Chicago. #fungifriends

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Funeral bells (Galerina marginata), two days ago northwest of Chicago. Pretty much the only living thing I saw in the woods that day. Do not eat these unless you want your organs to shut down.

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Bleeding fairy helmets! Didn't cut them to show the red goo inside bc I was not in a violent mood. Pics taken 7/19/24 in Rockford, IL. #fungifriends

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Painted Suillus. A tufted, dusty-rose beauty. Pic taken 6/12/24 near Asheville, NC. #fungifriends

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Oooh-hoo, witchy woman. Witches hat mushrooms (Hygrocybe conica) are vibrant waxcaps that turn black when handled, or with age. Pics taken 8/9/24 at the Indiana Dunes. #fungifriends

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Violet-gray bolete (Tylopilus plumbeoviolaceous). A HANDSOME mushroom. Look at this thing. Stately. Strong. Give it up for this guy. 8/9/24 at the Indiana Dunes! #fungifriends

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You can tell it's a hairy long stem marasmius when it has a long, hairy stem and it's a marasmius. Rhizomarasmius pyrrhocephalus taken 12/15/24 northwest of Chicago. #fungifriends

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Is it spring yet???

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Mmm. Spore dog on a stick. Chocolate tube slime mold (Stemonitis sp.) in Wisconsin, last October. #fungifriends

submitted 131 days ago • 1 comment

Woodsy types: will the bird flu change your foraging habits this summer? Eating black raspberries right off the bush is my favorite thing but this year... 😬

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Don't you wanna scrub your dishes with it? Spiny puffball (Lycoperdon echinatum), snapped 7/26/23 in Kankakee, IL. #fungifriends

submitted 132 days ago • 1 comment

This one's kind of spooky, right? Aren't you too spooked? Just found this going through oldies from 7/23. White jelly fungus (ductifera pululahuana), one of the most common fungi I see in the Chicago area. #fungifriends

submitted 133 days ago • 1 comment

Chicken lips! Yes, CHICKEN LIPS. That is the common name for these little jelly guys. Leotia viscosa. Chicken lips! Photos taken 9/7/24 in the lovely and mysterious Northwoods of Wisconsin.

submitted 134 days ago • 2 comments

Is it spring yet???

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Barbie of the woods, coral-pink merulius, with her BFF Stereum. Taken 7/19/24 in Rockford, IL. Scientific name Phlebia incarnata, but I heard a rumor it was going to shift into Byssomerulius soon? #fungifriends

submitted 136 days ago • 2 comments

Cheerful Pholiota family lining up for their yearly Sears portrait. Taken 10/27/24 at the Indiana Dunes. #fungifriends

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Just eat it! This slug is enjoying a nosh on a delicious waxcap (Hygrocybe sp.) #fungifriends

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WHAT IS UP it is SLIME MOLD SUNDAY so sink your stinger into this freaky wasp's nest slime mold (Metatrichia vesparia), snapped on 12/30/24 north of Chicago. #fungifriends

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Yo, dawg, we heard you liked polypores so we put polypores on your polypore. Birch polypores (Fomitopsis betulina) growing on one of their brethren taken 10/12/24 in the Wisconsin Driftless area.

submitted 144 days ago • 1 comment

Take a lick of this cat's tongue fungus (Pseudohydnum gelatinosum), spotted in the Wisconsin Northwoods back in September on a trip with my mushroom girlies. #fungifriends

submitted 146 days ago • 2 comments