Please send in any resources we may have missed! This is a work in progress.
Useful Websites & Resources:
National Weather Service rain map - precipitation tracking, good for finding out where to go for mushrooms. Also, always consider if you are allowed to be on or collect at a given spot, and if you are collecting edible species, consider if there may be sources of contamination (ex: herbicide, pesticides) that could end up in anything you forage.
MycoGuide by Dr. Patrick Leacock, based in Illinois - great resource full of useful information, links, and even worksheets on mycological topics. Patrick works at the Field Museum in Chigago, which has a fungarium along with its herbarium.
Tom Volk's Fungi by Dr. Tom Volk - this site is a joy, especially the extra colorful "mushroom of the month" features. Tom is a mycologist at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse!
Wisconsin Mushrooms by Andrew Khitsun - Andrew is a regular at WMS forays and takes wonderful pictures. He also teaches us to slow down and appreciate the very, very smallest fungi, including the much-less noticed "crusts" aka corticoid fungi.
Crust Fungi by Alden Dirks, currently in Michigan - speaking of the crusts... here's a whole site about them!!
Gary Lincoff's Site - lots and lots to enjoy here, from fungi science to mushroom culture
Mushroom Expert by Michael Kuo, based in Ohio - explore this site and learn! Nice keys.
The "Bolete Filter" by the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club - useful for sorting boletes... or, trying to sort your boletes. There are many undescribed species out there, waiting to be found out.
The "Fungal Biology Supergroup" at the University of Wisconsin Madison
Society for Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN) - a new nonprofit project to explore, document and champion the mycelial diversity of our planet. These networks can show themselves in the form of their fruiting bodies (mushrooms) but they can also be visibly absent and yet very, very present. Some of the most myco-diverse soil samples processed so far appear to be mountain grasslands. Who knew!?
MycoGuide by Dr. Patrick Leacock, based in Illinois - great resource full of useful information, links, and even worksheets on mycological topics. Patrick works at the Field Museum in Chigago, which has a fungarium along with its herbarium.
Tom Volk's Fungi by Dr. Tom Volk - this site is a joy, especially the extra colorful "mushroom of the month" features. Tom is a mycologist at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse!
Wisconsin Mushrooms by Andrew Khitsun - Andrew is a regular at WMS forays and takes wonderful pictures. He also teaches us to slow down and appreciate the very, very smallest fungi, including the much-less noticed "crusts" aka corticoid fungi.
Crust Fungi by Alden Dirks, currently in Michigan - speaking of the crusts... here's a whole site about them!!
Gary Lincoff's Site - lots and lots to enjoy here, from fungi science to mushroom culture
Mushroom Expert by Michael Kuo, based in Ohio - explore this site and learn! Nice keys.
The "Bolete Filter" by the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club - useful for sorting boletes... or, trying to sort your boletes. There are many undescribed species out there, waiting to be found out.
The "Fungal Biology Supergroup" at the University of Wisconsin Madison
Society for Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN) - a new nonprofit project to explore, document and champion the mycelial diversity of our planet. These networks can show themselves in the form of their fruiting bodies (mushrooms) but they can also be visibly absent and yet very, very present. Some of the most myco-diverse soil samples processed so far appear to be mountain grasslands. Who knew!?
