Terry Torres Cruz - Postdoctoral Scholar Feature Terry Torres Cruz’s path to mycology – the study of fungi – has been guided by lots of curiosity – and a little bit of fate. Growing up in a rural part of Costa Rica, Torres Cruz wasn’t sure what she ...

Learn more about Terry's mission to find the elusive alternate host of coffee leaf rust.
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#mycomonday #herbarium #fungarium #fungi #coffee #rustfungi
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Two sulphuric yellow mushrooms are growing in a pot with a green plant. The caps are still young and ovoid.

Two sulphuric yellow mushrooms are growing in a pot with a green plant. The hats are open like an umbrella.

#Leucocoprinus birnbaumii (flowerpot parasol) keeping a #Clivia miniata (Natal lily) company.

📣 #Agaricaceae, #mycology, #mycoMonday. Not quite #bloomScrolling, but still.

Close up photo showing two sculpted puffball mushrooms, Calvatia sculpta, which has an appearance similar to peaks of merengue.

A fun one for #MushroomMonday. Calvatia sculpta, one of the more interesting puffballs. This one, found on Mt. Ashland, was about the size of a softball. #mycelia #mycology #photography #fungi #mushroom #puffball #lycoperdon #PNW #MycoMonday

Amanita gemmata for #MushroomMonday on BlueSky! #FungiFriends #shroom #amanita #PNW #photography #MycoMonday

Ramaria apiculata, green-tipped coral fungus, for #MushroomMonday & #MacroMonday & #MycoMonday
October 4, 2016 #photography #PNW #mycology #fungus #PNWPhotographer #FungiOfBluesky #macro #CanonEOS #5dmk3

One of the weirder mushrooms out there - 𝘀𝗵𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗽 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗼𝗱𝘀 is actually the result of a parasitic relationship between 𝘌𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘮𝘢 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘶𝘮 and the honey mushroom. It's edible and delicious!

#mycomonday #mushroommonday #fungifriends #mushroomsky #𝘌𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘶𝘮 #mushrooms #mycophile #mushroomist

Two years ago I found my first indigo milky cap, aka 💙smurf mushroom💙 - look how much its staining my finger
𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗼 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗸𝘆 𝗖𝗮𝗽 (𝘓𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘶𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘨𝘰)

#mushroomsky🍄 #fungifriends #mycophile #mushroomist #mycomonday #mushroommonday #mushrooms #lactariusindigo #allthingsfungi

Amanita muscaria var. flavivolvata for #mushroommonday #amanitamuscaria #photography #fungalfriends #flyagaric #fungalfruit #mushroom #PNW #PNWmycology #mycomonday

When a #chytrid loses its tail, it just regrows a few dozen.
Very cool work from the @stearnslab.bsky.social et al.!
#chytrids #fungi #MycoMonday #mycology
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More than mushrooms—what do the mycologists at Purdue study? Mushrooms, whether eaten, used medicinally or in art, are deeply intertwined with global cultures. But they actually constitute a small piece of the fungal world. Mushrooms are the fruiting body of fu...

Read up on the Aime Lab and #Purdue #Herbaria over some coffee, and thank your coffee rust researchers!
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#MycoMonday #MycologyMonday #fungi #rustfungi #aquaticfungi #chytrids #chytrid #Bd #Batrachochytrium
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I'm happy to present a discussion on #mushrooms and the Kingdom #Fungi to the Remington Carpenter Township Public Library. TONIGHT!
#MushroomMonday #MycoMonday #mycology