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Mandie Quark

Mandie Quark

@mandiequark.bsky.social

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Your friendly neighborhood Mycologist 🍄 Community Science Director at Mycota Lab 🧬 Creating networks of field collectors across North and South America 🕸️ Rainforests are my happy place ☔️💜✨ https://linktr.ee/mandie_quark

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 22h

Fall is my favorite time of year ❤️✨

Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 29d

Fall is the best time of year for #mushrooms #🍄
I’m loving these rainbow Lactarius chelidonium var. chelidonoides

Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · Aug 22

As a traveling mycologist I’ve been kicking around in Colorado for the last 3 weeks. It’s been absolutely amazing✨

Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · Aug 22

Arctia caja (the great tiger moth!) at 9,000 ft elevation in gorgeous Telluride, Colorado 🏔️❤️✨

Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · Aug 16

You can always ask your friendly neighborhood mycologist! Or, just post it on iNaturalist for community consensus!

Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · Aug 15

Summer bounty 💗

#fungifriends #biodiversity #northcarolina #appalachia

Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · Aug 15

Phaeolus!!

Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · Aug 15

Gymnopilus for sure!

Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · Aug 15

This is Oudemansiella! ❤️✨

Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · Aug 15

Confirming ID - you’re right!

Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · Aug 15

Amanita cruentilemurum - the name of this mushroom means “bloody ghost” probably because it’s all-white but stains red when handled or sliced 🩸👻

#fungifriends #biodiversity #inaturalist

Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · Aug 13

These were either sequenced by Mycota Lab or OMDL, and they may not be in Genbank but they’re definitely on MycoMap. You can run a MycoMap BLAST by clicking the MycoMap BLAST Results link (right side) on any of these observations

Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · Aug 13

There are 6 observations on iNaturalist with DNA sequence data, check it out www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Observations of Magnolia-cone Xylaria

www.inaturalist.org

Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · Aug 13

Pretty pink Porpolomopsis, looking like a ballerina in the forest. This is likely a species new to science, discovered by our research crew last month in Costa Rica 💗

#biodiversity #new #pink #mushroom #fungi #ballerina #science #nature #discovery #costarica

Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · Aug 13

Sometimes when I feel unhappy, I remember that I’m alive and get to experience this amazing life. Some people I’ve known are gone too soon. Yet, miraculously, I’m still here… kickin, screamin, and pickin mushrooms 🍄🍄🍄

Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · Aug 12

Gorgeous flowers grow on the side of the road! This prickly poppy, in the genus Argemone, was captured on a back road in southern New Mexico 💚

#plants #backroad #biodiversity #newmexico

Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · Aug 12

Agaricus section Arvenses from southern New Mexico, growing under a mature blue Spruce at the edge of a gorgeous field on the top of a mountain at sunset ❤️

Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · Aug 12

Southern New Mexico has an amazing diversity of fungi, including this awesome new species of Neoboletus with the provisional name "southwestern rainbow" 🌈

Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · Jun 1

I want to pick it and cook it!

Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · Jun 1

Gills like a fancy dress 👗✨

#chanterelles

Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · Jun 1

Morels in the snowmelt ❤️✨

#mushrooms

Morel mushroom in the snowmelt

Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · May 23

It’s not toxic or psychoactive. This is a choice edible! It actually tastes rather like corn. Can turn eggs green when cooked together!!

Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · May 22

No but that was clearly a missed opportunity! Thanks for the idea 💡🩵✨

Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · May 22

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · May 22

Amazing!! 🩵💙✨