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Alan Rockefeller @alanrockefeller.bsky.social · 12d

An unknown parasite on Xylaria from Pastaza, Ecuador.

#mycology #fungi #fungifriends #xylaria

Alan Rockefeller @alanrockefeller.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks! This one was a little difficult because it started raining really hard as I was setting up my camera - I had some friends hold their raincoat over the tripod so I could get this shot without getting my gear too wet.

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Alan Rockefeller @alanrockefeller.bsky.social · 12d

I saw lots of cool Psilocybe collections that you found along that road in the ENCB herbarium in Mexico City - I always wondered who Jim Jacobs was. I'd love to talk to you more about your Mexico travels - I'll be in the PNW next month, perhaps we can go mushroom hunting one afternoon.

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Alan Rockefeller @alanrockefeller.bsky.social · 13d

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Alan Rockefeller @alanrockefeller.bsky.social · 13d

Psilocybe yungensis that I found Feb '25 in Pastaza, Ecuador.

This species gets its name from the Yungas region of Bolivia, where it was discovered in 1958.

#fungi #fungifriends #psilocybe #mycology #photograhy

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Alan Rockefeller @alanrockefeller.bsky.social · Aug 28

It's been a spectacular month in Colorado, but now it's time to head east for the Ohio Mushroom Festival.

I'll be leading forays and giving talks - hope to see you all there!

ohiomushroomfestival.com

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Alan Rockefeller @alanrockefeller.bsky.social · Aug 9

Mycena "sp-AZ03" that Scott Ostuni spotted near Fox Mountain, Colorado last year. I just got a sequence of it back from Mycota Lab. This probably undescribed species currently only known from Colorado and Arizona.

iNat 235426392 / MO 556415

#fungi #mycena #mushrooms #fungifriends

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Alan Rockefeller @alanrockefeller.bsky.social · Aug 8

The first known photo of Trichoderma sp. ‘TX01’ - a rare and probably undescribed species of Trichoderma I collected on a vine in Texas in November, 2022. The only match in Genbank is an unnamed collection from Florida.

iNat 140831069 / MO 581563

#fungi #trichoderma #dnabarcoding #fungifriends

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Alan Rockefeller @alanrockefeller.bsky.social · Aug 4

Cirsium vinaceum is an extremely rare species of thistle that only grows in Otero County, New Mexico in high elevation wet areas. Quite a few plants were growing near a mountain spring that I explored today with the New Mexico Mycological Society.

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Alan Rockefeller @alanrockefeller.bsky.social · Aug 2

An undescribed bioluminescent Mycena from Mycena sect. Sacchariferae, closely related to Mycena asterina found a few days ago in Monteverde, Costa Rica. Like Mycena asterina, only the cap glows.

#bioluminescence #mycena #mycology #fungifriends #fungi

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Alan Rockefeller @alanrockefeller.bsky.social · Jul 29

A video on how to take good mushroom photos with a cell phone

youtu.be/t4MvG5nMaEM

#photography #mushrooms #fungi #cellphonephotography

Cell Phone Photography

YouTube video by Mycena Media

youtu.be

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Alan Rockefeller @alanrockefeller.bsky.social · Jul 25

Most cup fungi don't fluoresce a lot, but ultraviolet light reveals unusual chemistry in this unknown Helotiales from Monteverde, Costa Rica.

#FluorescentFungi #Monteverde #CostaRica #Mycology #UVPhotography #Fluorescence #FieldMycology #fungifriends

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Alan Rockefeller @alanrockefeller.bsky.social · Jul 24

Inocybe "citrifolia", an undescribed Inocybe from California, Oregon and Idaho. This species is easy to identify due to its orange color scheme.

Collected in Santa Cruz County in April, 2022, sequenced by @mycota.lab.

iNat # 110466630

#inocybe #dnabarcoding #fungifriends #mycology #mushrooms

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Alan Rockefeller @alanrockefeller.bsky.social · Jul 22

Mycena sp. 'amicta-HRL01' - A species in the Mycena amicta group with only two observations on iNaturalist, both in the east bay area, California, USA.

Sequenced recently by @mycota.lab.

Mushroom Observer # 439854 / iNaturalist # 84403145

#mycena #mycology #dnabarcoding #fungifriends #mushrooms

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Alan Rockefeller @alanrockefeller.bsky.social · Jul 22

Mycena citricolor on a Rubiaceae leaf - found today in Monteverde, Costa Rica.

#mycena #mycology #mushrooms #costarica #fungifriends

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Alan Rockefeller @alanrockefeller.bsky.social · Jul 22

Beauveria sp. found last night in Monteverde, Costa Rica on a Saturniidae caterpillar. In white light and 365 nanometer UV light.

Mushroom Observer # 579083 / iNaturalist # 299745988

#mushrooms #mycology #beauveria #cordyceps #fungifriends #costarica

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Alan Rockefeller @alanrockefeller.bsky.social · Jul 22

I used a macro lens with a 2x teleconverter so it's about 6x magnification - almost a microscope but it's an Olympus OM-1 camera + 90mm macro lens. They were really tiny, about 1 mm across.

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Alan Rockefeller @alanrockefeller.bsky.social · Jul 22

A tiny Favolaschia found yesterday in Monteverde, Costa Rica. These are basically in Mycena and will probably be moved into Mycena soon - the alternative is to split Mycena up into a whole bunch of similar looking genera.

#mycology #fungi #fungifriends #favolaschia

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Alan Rockefeller @alanrockefeller.bsky.social · Jun 17

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