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We are thrilled to have Ethan Crenson, President of @newyorkmyc.org as an expert guest writer for NAC's Understories blog! 🍄 Ethan shares 5 of his favorite NYC tiny fungi and provides tips for identifying each; where you might spot them; as well as detailed insight into their biology: bit.ly/473stfK
Top 5 Most Beautiful Tiny Fungi You Can Find in NYC… If You Really Look. - Natural Areas Conservancy
New York City is home to thousands of species of fungi—some big, some small, and some positively tiny! Read on below for five of my favorite tiny fungi you can find right here in NYC.
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October 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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🗓️ Sunday, Oct 5, 2025
🗣: Festival Map & Schedule
📍 Randall’s Island, NYC
🆓 Free admission

Make sure you book mark this post or head on over to our website to view the Map & Schedule.

#NYMS #NYCFungustFestival2025 #FungusFestival #festival #mushroomfestival #fungus #fungi #mycology
October 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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🎟️: Link in Bio Events Section

The registration for the Fungus Festival 2025 is OPEN!

We have a great line up of presentations and workshops for you
Sign up to get your spot
. Paper making
. Mushroom walks
, Fungal Movement
. Mushroom smells
. Observational drawing
. Mushroom Yoga
and more!
September 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🍄✨Order 2025 Fungus Festival Limited Edition T-Shirts 🌿👕
🔗: Link in Bio News Section to order
🛍️: Sale – 10% off till 09.12.25

Get your own limited edition 2025 Fungus Festival T-shirt here! These were designed by club member, artist and designer Juli Sasaki.
August 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🍄 Save the Date!
Fungus Festival 2025 is coming 2 Randall’s Island on Sunday, October 5 🌱
Talks, workshops, mushroom yoga, food, and family fun—all free + open 2 every1.
🕚 11:00–15:00 | Randall’s Island, NYC
#NYMS #NYCFungustFestival2025 #FungusFestival #festival #mushroomfestival #fungus #fungi
August 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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🗣️: Africa’s Untold Fungal Story – @cullentaylorclark
📆: Sunday, August 17th @ 12:00 - 13:30
🎟️: Members only
🔗: www.newyorkmyc.org/event/africa...
August 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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🗣️: Caps Off the Milkies – Bethany Beech
📆: Thursday, August 7th @ 18:00 - 19:30
🔗: www.newyorkmyc.org/event/caps-o...

Lactarius and Lactifluus, the milk caps, are notoriously hard to identify.
August 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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📆: 7.262025
📍: Stony Brook, Harriman, Rockland County
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A pleasant walk, though a bit dry, with the expected sweet milky mushrooms (Lactifluus volemus, Lactifluus corrugis, Lactifluus hygrophoroides)
📷: Lactifluus subvellereus - Gene Yetter
August 3, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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📰: Summer 2025 NYMS newsletter.
🔗: www.newyorkmyc.org/download-the...

What’s inside?

Outcasts: Mary Banning’s World of Mushrooms, Mycorrhizal Fungi’s Importance in Farming and Carbon Sequestration, Mycocosmic book , Putting on the Ritz: Making Mushrooms Under Glass Recipe and lots of events!
July 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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📰: Chasser le champignon dans le Bronx
🔗: www.lapresse.ca/internationa...

New news article just dropped. This past week, on our Van Cortlandt walk, journalist Richard Hétu of the @lapresse.ca news site.
July 26, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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📆: 7.19.2025
📍: Van Cortlandt, Bronx, NY
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July 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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📆: 7.12.2025
📍: Wolfes Pond, Staten Island, NY
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July 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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📆: 7.06.2025
📍: Cunningham Park

This weekend NYMS had a Mushrooms for Beginners session—with a zoom lecture on Saturday morning, and a walk in Cunningham Park Sunday morning.

#MycoWalkSeries #UrbanMycology #CunninghamPark #Queens #SummerFungi #SpeciesWalkList #🍄
July 11, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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NYC is home 2 forests, meadows, and wetlands - & more biodiversity than many people realize. A new community-led report from the NYC Biodiversity Task Force, Oaks, Our City, & us, lays out a vision 4 how NYC can better support nature in every neighborhood.
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July 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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📆: 6.28.2025
📍: Prospect Park
Our walk concentrated n the Ramble & the area behind the zoo. In the Ramble in particular we found a remarkable # of mushrooms and slime molds.
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#MycoWalkSeries #UrbanMycology #ProspectPark #ramble #SummerFungi #SpeciesWalkList
July 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Our very own Secretary, @trybuch.com, was featured on iNat for #observationoftheday!

Congrats!

#slimemold #nycslimepatrol
inaturalist.bsky.social iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · Jul 4
Slime molds 4ever. (This species is currently ID'd as Arcyria stipata by the iNat community.)

📷 elan_trybuch on iNaturalist
📍 United States
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#ObservationOfTheDay
A globular, pale red slime mold grows up from the ground.
July 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Thanks to everyone who came yesterday for our pop-up walk in Prospect Park. We found a remarkable number of mushrooms and slime molds. Lala spotted the Densocarpa shanori, which is an ascomycete truffle that smells like rotten eggs—a very rare find indeed.

#discover #nature #ascomycete #mycology
June 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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📆: 6.21.2025
📍: Marine Park
Here is the list for our first ever walk in Marine Park!

#MycoWalkSeries #UrbanMycology #AlleyPond #SpringFungi #SpeciesWalkList #saltmarsh
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June 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Congrats!
wcm-imp.bsky.social Immunology & Microbial Pathogenesis (IMP) Program @wcm-imp.bsky.social · Jun 25
🎓 Huge congratulations to Kathleen Mills from the @fungalspore.bsky.social Hohl Lab on successfully defending her thesis: "Epithelial-Immune Cell Crosstalk Orchestrates Pulmonary Immunity to Aspergillus fumigatus" Her strong, dedicated presence in the program will truly be missed! 💫🧬
June 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Mush💜 - This talk will be fungtastic! 🍄
mycowdc.bsky.social The Mycological Association of Washington, D.C. @mycowdc.bsky.social · Jun 28
Join us this Tuesday for our monthly meeting, with a talk by noted mycologist Bill Yule on "Saprobe Superpowers"! We'll also have a virtual ID table and more — July 1, 7 pm, online via Zoom — everyone is welcome! www.mawdc.org/event-6238165 #mycology #mushrooms #fungi
June 29, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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🔗: Details in Bio
📆: Thursday, July 3 @ 18:00
🗣️: @greenwoodzombie - Beyond the Spore Print: DNA Sequencing and the True Fungal Diversity of New York
🎟️: Open to the public

#mycotalk #mycology #talks #mushroom #DNA #Sequencing
June 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Amazing. 💜💜💜💜
trybuch.com trybuch.com @trybuch.com · Jun 20
First time lapse videographer. Would love some feedback on how to improve. e.g. lighting, shot frequency, etc... This was shot in manual focus.

#timelapse #videographer #slimemold
June 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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We explored the north end near Alley Creek with Alley Pond Environmental Center —an org protecting & educating around this vital green space.

#MycoWalkSeries #UrbanMycology #AlleyPond #SpringFungi #SpeciesWalkList

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June 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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🦠: Tubifera ferruginosa
📍: Alley Pond Park

This immature Tubifera ferruginosa is strikingly easy to spot in the field. In this stage, it certainly lives up to its colloquial name: Raspberry Slime Mold
#slimemoldsunday #myxomycetes #tubifera #raspberry #raspberryslimemold #forestfloorfinds #🦠
June 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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📆: 6.8.2025
📍: Cloves Lake Park
We had a hot, dry, and somewhat windy week. So, though it did rain a fair bit, our pop-up walk in Clove Lakes Park, Staten Island didn't deliver a lot of mushrooms. There were some interesting slime molds, a few fine ascos and some birds nest fungi.
June 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM