Mycology, Botany, and nature-appreciation
15 Aug 2022 1 minute read 1 comment tych0_21
Happy Mushroom Monday! Over the last week, I have been lucky enough to come across a wide variety of native fungi in the woods of western Michigan, USA. I have come across delicious edible mushrooms ranging from chanterelles (Genus cantharellus), to...
9 Aug 2022 5 minute read 2 comments tych0_21
Happy Mushroom Monday! This last weekend was a particularly exciting weekend for me since I was blessed enough to stumble upon the largest fruitings of chanterelles I have yet witnessed. With a heavy rain in the middle of last week, and warm, humid w...
5 Aug 2022 1 minute read 3 comments tych0_21
Happy Fungi Friday everyone! Today, I would like to share a few more images of spores collected from summer fungal species collected from western Michigan, USA this year. I continue to refine my microscopy and imaging techniques to try to begin build...
1 Aug 2022 2 minute read 0 comments tych0_21
Happy Mushroom Monday to everyone! Today, I'd like to share a collection of some of the fascinating fungi that I have found in the woods of western Michigan, USA over the last few days. After a prior week of intermittent rainfall, we have finally bee...
20 Jul 2022 2 minute read 1 comment tych0_21
Happy Wednesday to everyone! Today, I'm happy to share a few photos documenting a walk through one of my favorite woods in western Michigan, USA. This is a spot that I frequent whenever I am foraging for edible mushroom species as well as find a plac...
11 Jul 2022 2 minute read 0 comments tych0_21
Happy Mushroom Monday! Today I would like to share a few fungal finds from my latest mushroom hunt in the woods. Despite this summer continuing to be very dry, leading to a relatively poor mushroom hunting season in comparison to last year's, a small...
6 Jul 2022 2 minute read 2 comments tych0_21
This week, I would like to share a few photos taken while taken while walking through an old golf course that has since been reclaimed by a nature preserve to become a natural meadow habitat. With fairways that have become fields of native grasses an...
17 Jun 2022 2 minute read 1 comment tych0_21
Happy Fungi Friday! Today I would like to share a few images taken of spores from a selection of fungi found in Western Michigan, USA. These images were taken over the course of the last few months as I continue to experiment with my microscopy setup...
14 Jun 2022 2 minute read 0 comments tych0_21
Happy Mushroom Monday! Today I am happy to share my most recent fungal finds from the woods of Western Michigan, USA, including a relatively rare edible fungi: the Umbrella Polypore (Polyporus umbellatus). Despite a rather lackluster spring mushroom...
6 Jun 2022 3 minute read 1 comment tych0_21
This last weekend, I had the privilege of camping in the immeasurably beautiful Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan, USA. This dramatic lakeside preserve is one of only 3 federally designated National Lakeshores in the United States;...
