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Illinois Mycological Association
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Illinois original mushroom club for over 50 years! Fun for all fungi lovers. Field surveys, talks and social events.

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IMA Survey with many of my favorite mushroom people today. #fungi #hongos #fungifriends #mushrooms #illinoismycologicalassociation
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.
September 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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We're in the news! Thank you WTTW!
wttw.bsky.social WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social · Aug 27
Locally foraged fungi — in all their fascinating, weird and beautiful-ugly forms — will take center stage Sunday at the Illinois Mycological Association’s annual mushroom show.

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This amazing array of mushrooms barely scratches the surface of the estimated 1,500 species identified in the Chicago region. There are an estimated 1 to 5 million species of fungi globally. (Courtesy of Kate Golembiewski) There are plenty of fungi species in Chicago. All of the mushrooms pictured were spotted in the city’s parkways. (Patty Wetli / WTTW News)
August 29, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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The IMA is in the news this week. Gearing up for the annual Mushroom Show the Chicago Botanic Garden this Sunday August 30th! #Mushrooms #fungi #hongos #setas #chicagobotanicgarden

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Chicago’s Mushroom Club Is Putting the Fun in Fungi, and the Science Too
Locally foraged fungi — in all their fascinating, weird and beautiful-ugly forms — will take center stage Sunday at the Illinois Mycological Association’s annual mushroom show.
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August 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Another survey with @illinoismyco.bsky.social at Brunner Family Forest Preserve in Kane County. #fungi #mushrooms #hongos #illinoismycologicalassociation
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
July 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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An IMA member found one of Dr. P. Leacock's "Most Wanted" fungi today!
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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.
May 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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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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Understanding Fungi & Wild Mushrooms of Illinois
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May 6, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Lichen lecture Monday May 5th at 7:30. Zoom link here: zoom.us/j/91768461591 #fungi #lichen
Lichens and Climate Change with Dr. Daniel Stanton Poster, image of Lichens and Dr. Stanton.
May 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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🍄 APRIL LECTURE 🍄

Monthly lecture: What Fungi Can Tell Us About Sex
Monday, April 7, 7:30pm Central Time

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Timothy Y. James is a Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at U of M, and President of the Mycological Society of America.
#fungi #mushrooms #hongos
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April 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Fungi Film Fest in Albany Park, Chicago this Thursday January 30th for IMA/NAMA members! Check your email for the newsletter with all the details.
Festival poster featuring fungi, a fungi puppet, a woman wearing a fungi cap and small yellow fungi.
January 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM