New York Mycological Society
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🗣️: From Waste to Wonder: The Mysterious World of Fungi that Grow on Dung
📆: 02.22.2026 @ 10:00—12:00
📍: Zoom!
🔗 : www.newyorkmyc.org/event/from-w...
#mycotalk #mycology #talks #mushroom
📆: 02.22.2026 @ 10:00—12:00
📍: Zoom!
🔗 : www.newyorkmyc.org/event/from-w...
#mycotalk #mycology #talks #mushroom
February 16, 2026 at 9:30 AM
🗣️: From Waste to Wonder: The Mysterious World of Fungi that Grow on Dung
📆: 02.22.2026 @ 10:00—12:00
📍: Zoom!
🔗 : www.newyorkmyc.org/event/from-w...
#mycotalk #mycology #talks #mushroom
📆: 02.22.2026 @ 10:00—12:00
📍: Zoom!
🔗 : www.newyorkmyc.org/event/from-w...
#mycotalk #mycology #talks #mushroom
🗣️: Maria Pinto- Surveying Black Mycologies
📆: 02.05.2026 @ 19:30—21:00
🔗: Linki n bio to attend!
Maria Pinto was born in Jamaica, grew up in South Florida, and is now based in Boston where she’s an active member of the Boston Mycology Club.
📆: 02.05.2026 @ 19:30—21:00
🔗: Linki n bio to attend!
Maria Pinto was born in Jamaica, grew up in South Florida, and is now based in Boston where she’s an active member of the Boston Mycology Club.
January 29, 2026 at 10:44 PM
🗣️: Maria Pinto- Surveying Black Mycologies
📆: 02.05.2026 @ 19:30—21:00
🔗: Linki n bio to attend!
Maria Pinto was born in Jamaica, grew up in South Florida, and is now based in Boston where she’s an active member of the Boston Mycology Club.
📆: 02.05.2026 @ 19:30—21:00
🔗: Linki n bio to attend!
Maria Pinto was born in Jamaica, grew up in South Florida, and is now based in Boston where she’s an active member of the Boston Mycology Club.
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There's no shortage of stunning lichens — like this Devil's matchstick (Pilophorus acicularis), which grows these tiny black-tipped stalks across rock surfaces.
📷 volcanoesandbugs on iNaturalist
📍 United States
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
📷 volcanoesandbugs on iNaturalist
📍 United States
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
January 15, 2026 at 5:46 PM
There's no shortage of stunning lichens — like this Devil's matchstick (Pilophorus acicularis), which grows these tiny black-tipped stalks across rock surfaces.
📷 volcanoesandbugs on iNaturalist
📍 United States
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
📷 volcanoesandbugs on iNaturalist
📍 United States
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
Reposted by New York Mycological Society
"The scientist warns that the planet has long “neglected” to map, monitor or protect fungal systems – which are now under threat from deforestation, erosion and agricultural practices."
Scientist wins €215,000 award for work on carbon-sucking fungi
Dr Toby Kiers has won the 2026 Tyler Prize award after shedding light on “overlooked” fungi that can offset huge amounts of CO2.
www.euronews.com
January 18, 2026 at 4:01 PM
"The scientist warns that the planet has long “neglected” to map, monitor or protect fungal systems – which are now under threat from deforestation, erosion and agricultural practices."
❄️🍄 NYMS Weather Report: 100% Chance of Mushrooms (Snow Edition) 🍄❄️
NYMS goes on walks rain, sun, or snow—and today Seton Falls Park really leaned into the last option. The forecast teased us with a chance of snow… and then absolutely delivered.
NYMS goes on walks rain, sun, or snow—and today Seton Falls Park really leaned into the last option. The forecast teased us with a chance of snow… and then absolutely delivered.
January 17, 2026 at 10:52 PM
❄️🍄 NYMS Weather Report: 100% Chance of Mushrooms (Snow Edition) 🍄❄️
NYMS goes on walks rain, sun, or snow—and today Seton Falls Park really leaned into the last option. The forecast teased us with a chance of snow… and then absolutely delivered.
NYMS goes on walks rain, sun, or snow—and today Seton Falls Park really leaned into the last option. The forecast teased us with a chance of snow… and then absolutely delivered.
Every species from our walks is logged, building a 17+ year public dataset on NYC fungal diversity.
Our 2025 report covers drought, wildfires, invasive fungi, warming temps, and species new to NYC: www.newyorkmyc.org/2025-parks-r...
#citizenscience #biodiversity #NYCparks #nature #datascience
Our 2025 report covers drought, wildfires, invasive fungi, warming temps, and species new to NYC: www.newyorkmyc.org/2025-parks-r...
#citizenscience #biodiversity #NYCparks #nature #datascience
2025 Parks Report
You may not know this but removing fungi from their substrate or even collecting them from New York City Parks is illegal and subject to a […]
www.newyorkmyc.org
January 10, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Every species from our walks is logged, building a 17+ year public dataset on NYC fungal diversity.
Our 2025 report covers drought, wildfires, invasive fungi, warming temps, and species new to NYC: www.newyorkmyc.org/2025-parks-r...
#citizenscience #biodiversity #NYCparks #nature #datascience
Our 2025 report covers drought, wildfires, invasive fungi, warming temps, and species new to NYC: www.newyorkmyc.org/2025-parks-r...
#citizenscience #biodiversity #NYCparks #nature #datascience
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So glad my Myxobox slime vault made it through customs. Looking forward to seeing what they are able to find, discover and confirm!
December 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
So glad my Myxobox slime vault made it through customs. Looking forward to seeing what they are able to find, discover and confirm!
👕: Vintage Logo & Fungus Festival shirts
🔗: Link in Bio of News Section
🛍️: Sale 20% off!
T-shirts make great gifts, they help fund New York Mycological Society's programs, like #NYCFungusFestival2025, oh, and they are stylish and impeccably designed.
🔗: Link in Bio of News Section
🛍️: Sale 20% off!
T-shirts make great gifts, they help fund New York Mycological Society's programs, like #NYCFungusFestival2025, oh, and they are stylish and impeccably designed.
December 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
👕: Vintage Logo & Fungus Festival shirts
🔗: Link in Bio of News Section
🛍️: Sale 20% off!
T-shirts make great gifts, they help fund New York Mycological Society's programs, like #NYCFungusFestival2025, oh, and they are stylish and impeccably designed.
🔗: Link in Bio of News Section
🛍️: Sale 20% off!
T-shirts make great gifts, they help fund New York Mycological Society's programs, like #NYCFungusFestival2025, oh, and they are stylish and impeccably designed.
Reposted by New York Mycological Society
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.
bit.ly
October 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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
🗓️ 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
🗣: 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
🗓️ 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
🗣: 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
🎟️: 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!
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
🎟️: 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!
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!
🍄✨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.
🔗: 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
🍄✨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.
🔗: 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.
🍄 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
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
🍄 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
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
🗣️: Africa’s Untold Fungal Story – @cullentaylorclark
📆: Sunday, August 17th @ 12:00 - 13:30
🎟️: Members only
🔗: www.newyorkmyc.org/event/africa...
📆: Sunday, August 17th @ 12:00 - 13:30
🎟️: Members only
🔗: www.newyorkmyc.org/event/africa...
August 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
🗣️: Africa’s Untold Fungal Story – @cullentaylorclark
📆: Sunday, August 17th @ 12:00 - 13:30
🎟️: Members only
🔗: www.newyorkmyc.org/event/africa...
📆: Sunday, August 17th @ 12:00 - 13:30
🎟️: Members only
🔗: www.newyorkmyc.org/event/africa...
🗣️: 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.
📆: 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
🗣️: 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.
📆: Thursday, August 7th @ 18:00 - 19:30
🔗: www.newyorkmyc.org/event/caps-o...
Lactarius and Lactifluus, the milk caps, are notoriously hard to identify.
📆: 7.262025
📍: Stony Brook, Harriman, Rockland County
🔗: walklists.newyorkmyc.org/walksingle.p...
A pleasant walk, though a bit dry, with the expected sweet milky mushrooms (Lactifluus volemus, Lactifluus corrugis, Lactifluus hygrophoroides)
📷: Lactifluus subvellereus - Gene Yetter
📍: Stony Brook, Harriman, Rockland County
🔗: walklists.newyorkmyc.org/walksingle.p...
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
📆: 7.262025
📍: Stony Brook, Harriman, Rockland County
🔗: walklists.newyorkmyc.org/walksingle.p...
A pleasant walk, though a bit dry, with the expected sweet milky mushrooms (Lactifluus volemus, Lactifluus corrugis, Lactifluus hygrophoroides)
📷: Lactifluus subvellereus - Gene Yetter
📍: Stony Brook, Harriman, Rockland County
🔗: walklists.newyorkmyc.org/walksingle.p...
A pleasant walk, though a bit dry, with the expected sweet milky mushrooms (Lactifluus volemus, Lactifluus corrugis, Lactifluus hygrophoroides)
📷: Lactifluus subvellereus - Gene Yetter
📰: 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!
🔗: 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
📰: 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!
🔗: 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!
📰: 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.
🔗: 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
📰: 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.
🔗: 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 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
July 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
📆: 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 #🍄
📍: 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
📆: 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 #🍄
📍: 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 #🍄
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.
nycbiodiversity.wixsite.com/taskforce/re...
nycbiodiversity.wixsite.com/taskforce/re...
July 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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.
nycbiodiversity.wixsite.com/taskforce/re...
nycbiodiversity.wixsite.com/taskforce/re...
📆: 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.
walklists.newyorkmyc.org/walksingle.p...
#MycoWalkSeries #UrbanMycology #ProspectPark #ramble #SummerFungi #SpeciesWalkList
📍: 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.
walklists.newyorkmyc.org/walksingle.p...
#MycoWalkSeries #UrbanMycology #ProspectPark #ramble #SummerFungi #SpeciesWalkList
July 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
📆: 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.
walklists.newyorkmyc.org/walksingle.p...
#MycoWalkSeries #UrbanMycology #ProspectPark #ramble #SummerFungi #SpeciesWalkList
📍: 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.
walklists.newyorkmyc.org/walksingle.p...
#MycoWalkSeries #UrbanMycology #ProspectPark #ramble #SummerFungi #SpeciesWalkList
Our very own Secretary, @trybuch.com, was featured on iNat for #observationoftheday!
Congrats!
#slimemold #nycslimepatrol
Congrats!
#slimemold #nycslimepatrol
Slime molds 4ever. (This species is currently ID'd as Arcyria stipata by the iNat community.)
📷 elan_trybuch on iNaturalist
📍 United States
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
📷 elan_trybuch on iNaturalist
📍 United States
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
July 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Our very own Secretary, @trybuch.com, was featured on iNat for #observationoftheday!
Congrats!
#slimemold #nycslimepatrol
Congrats!
#slimemold #nycslimepatrol
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
#discover #nature #ascomycete #mycology
June 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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
#discover #nature #ascomycete #mycology