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11/12/2025

🌳🍄 Big Tree Forest Preserve🍄🌳

Plenty of ganoderma and false turkey tails on logs—but I found two polar opposite headliners:

• Bondarzewia berkeleyi (Berkeley’s polypore) — a giant rosette usually found at the base of oak trees, with large fronds and white pores underneath. Edible and often used for soup stocks.

• Amanita magnivelaris — tall, elegant white Amanita with a big skirt-like ring (name literally means “large veil”) and a bulb/volva at the base. One of the most toxic mushrooms on Earth containing deadly alpha amanitin! Do not eat!!!

💖Mushlove & follow to learn more!

11/11/2025

🍄🎨 Part 2 of Growing a Logo!

I’m bio-printing the Atlanta Mushroom Festival logo in living reishi (Ganoderma lucidum) mycelium on straw + sawdust blocks. Watch as these blocks go from fluffy white threads to a dense, corky mat ready for shaping.

🔬 Process:

-Straw + hardwood sawdust → inoculated with reishi spawn

-Packed into bricks, sealed and incubated (steady warmth, high CO₂)

-Checked daily with shaking ever 5 days

Now: fully colonized and ready for inoculation!

💡 Why reishi? Strong, fast binder; beautiful texture; and it cures into a lightweight, myco-based composite. Art you can literally grow!

If you’re into mycomaterials, design, and citizen science, save this, share it, and follow for the demold + finishing steps next.

10/22/2025

📸 Fungi + Art = Magic 🍄✨

We’re cooking up something mycelium-azing for the next Atlanta Mushroom Festival — and it’s made with home-cultured Ganoderma curtisii! 🔬

This stunning species was foraged from the wild right here in Georgia and I'm using it to inoculate a massive amount of sawdust (thanks to ), hardwood pellets and straw — creating the perfect blend of strength and durability.

👀 What are we growing? A giant living ATLMF logo made of mushrooms that YOU can take photos with! This myco-masterpiece will almost completely made from upcycled materials and a culture native to Georgia!

Follow its growth, learn about mycomaterials and grab your selfies with the mushroom logo at the Atlanta Mushroom Festival! 🍄📷

🗓️ November 22, 2025
📍 Lee & White, Atlanta, GA

10/15/2025

My time in Switzerland was brief but beautiful with some amazing observations to boot! I found some cotoneaster sp. on the rock in the middle of Rheinfall with Coriolopsis trogii, hairy curtain crust (Stereum hirsutum), Common Sunburst Lichen (Xanthoria parietina) and European chub (Squalius cephalus) back at the docks!

Such an amazing adventure, the boat captain gave everyone a good laugh at the end by driving into the waterfall and getting everyone wet! Such a fun ride, 10/10 would do again! We visited in the fall but were told the spring has way more water when the winter snow melts and collects here!












🍄👨‍🍳🍽 Food Alert!Here are some of the delicious things I had in Germany. Not everything had mushroom, though y'all know ...
10/14/2025

🍄👨‍🍳🍽 Food Alert!

Here are some of the delicious things I had in Germany. Not everything had mushroom, though y'all know I tried, but everything was absolutely delicious!!!!!

1. Pfifferlinge (chanterelle) tagliatelle with a savory foam

2. Zwiebelrostbraten (onions with gravy over beef) with fresh steamed veggies

3.fresh microgreen/sprout salad with balsamic vinaigrette and cold cuts

4. Wedding food: schnitzel, pasta, beef roast, prosciutto wrapped pork, spaetzle, potatoes au gratin, steamed vegetables and curry wurst at midnight!

5. Breaded beef cutlet over greenbeans

6. Prosciutto wrapped pork over polenta with broccolini

7. Mango sorbet with blueberry and granola

8. Fig salad with beet juice crisps and jam glaze chèvre

9. My Sister's tangy beet salad

10. Homemade deer goulash, spaetzle, sweet red cabbage and kartoffelsalat (tangy and savory potato salad)

11. My (left) and my nephews (right) plates after eating conveyor belt sushi 🤣😂😁

10/13/2025

🍄🎨 Germany’s “do-not-eat” duo
Here are my most colorful and poisonous finds in Germany: Mycena rosea (rosy bonnet) & Lepiota clypeolaria (shield dapperling).

Quick ID:
• Mycena rosea: bubble-gum pink cap with fine striations around the edge, pale stipe, pink to whitish gills, often a faint radish scent and white spore print

• Lepiota clypeolaria: buff-to-tawny cap with darker scales and a central umbo (“shield”), free white gills, shaggy/fibrillose stem with a ring zone and white spore print.

⚠️ Safety: Mycena rosea contains muscarine a compound found in some inocybe, clitocybe, entoloma species and small amounts in amanita muscaria. It can cause excessive sweating, salivation, tearing, blurred vision and abdominal cramps due to overstimulation of muscarinic receptors. Higher doses can lead to more severe effects such as low blood pressure, bradycardia (slow heart rate), respiratory failure, and even cardiac arrest.

Lepiota clypeolaria is a poisonous mushroom that can cause severe gastrointestinal issues, including violent vomiting and diarrhea. While the exact compounds that cause these effects are not known, it's best just to stay away from eating this mushroom.

Mushlove!!!!

10/07/2025

🇩🇪🍄Introducing the Coral Spot and Blue Edge Pinkgill
(Nectria cinnabarina & Entoloma serrulatum)

The Coral Spot mushroom is the forests neon cleanup crew. It's saprophytic and the bright coral-orange pips can often be seen covering dead hardwood twigs.

The blue edge pink gill has an indigo to slate cap with "saw-toothed" gill edges, a slender stipe, no annulus (ring) and is usually found on leaf litter in mixed forests. It also has a pink spore print, which is typical for entolomas.

Neither are edible but both are cool finds!!!




















10/03/2025

🧄🪂🍄Garlic Parachute Mushroom!🍄🪂🧄
(Mycetinis alliaceus)

This was the first mushroom I found in Germany, right next to the train tracks I was following into the woods!

A unique edible find with an unmistakable garlic smell and taste!

How to ID:
• Cap: tan–ochre color, bell-shaped when young, flattens with age.

• Gills: pale to white.

• Stipe: long, wiry/tough, dark brown → nearly black, often rooting at the base.

• Scent: unmistakably garlicky—strongest when crushed or dried.

• Habitat: on leaf litter and small sticks in hardwood woods, often in troops.

Kitchen notes:
Dry a handful at low heat and crumble like garlic into butter, eggs, flatbreads or a pan sauce. A little goes a long way—think “forest bouillon cube.”




















10/01/2025

🇩🇪🍄Deutsche Pilzsuche 🍄🇩🇪
(German Mushroom Hunting!)

I traveled to Germany for my nephews wedding and got to wander in the woods for a couple hours to find these!

We were staying in a quaint cabin not far from the forest. I walked through the orchard in the back yard, down the hill, followed the train tracks and started looking.

I didn't have to look long before I spotting all these amazing mushrooms right next to the tracks which led me into the woods!

On the way back through the orchard I got some bonus finds, which I uploaded to iNaturalist.

Hope you enjoy this hunt, more in depth videos to follow!



















My first iNaturalist observation in Germany right in my Sister's garden! Here I present Gymnopilus penetrans, aka the co...
09/18/2025

My first iNaturalist observation in Germany right in my Sister's garden! Here I present Gymnopilus penetrans, aka the common rustgill!

Nibble and spit test:
Strong peppery taste that isn't spicy, with a lingering bitterness.

Definitely NOT edible but extremely photographic!

More photos to come from this amazing trip!







🍗 🍄Chicken of the Woods Culture Day🍄🍗 (Laetiporus sulphureus)I’ve been flying in gorgeous COW from Seattle all week for ...
09/16/2025

🍗 🍄Chicken of the Woods Culture Day🍄🍗 (Laetiporus sulphureus)

I’ve been flying in gorgeous COW from Seattle all week for clients—and with so many phenotypes of the same species on hand, I couldn’t resist a little field-to-lab fun. I pulled sterile tissue cores from several fruitbodies to start a mini culture library.

How it's done:
• Clean HEPA flow hood ➜ flame-sterilized scalpel ➜ dexteose plates labeled by source

• Side-by-side growth to compare speed, branching and vigor

• Winners move to cabin sequester ➜ clean plate ➜ grain ➜ plug spawn ➜ log inoculation trials

Why bother? Because no one has figured out a way to consistently produce this mushroom!

Safety note: Always cook thoroughly; some folks are sensitive to COW.

Save 🔖, share and follow for the spawn run and log-fruiting updates!




















🍗 🍄Chicken of the Woods Culture Day🍄🍗 (Laetiporus sulphureus)I’ve been flying in gorgeous COW from Seattle all week for ...
09/16/2025

🍗 🍄Chicken of the Woods Culture Day🍄🍗 (Laetiporus sulphureus)

I’ve been flying in gorgeous COW from Seattle all week for clients—and with so many phenotypes of the same species on hand, I couldn’t resist a little field-to-lab fun. I pulled sterile tissue cores from several fruitbodies to start a mini culture library.

How it's done:
• Clean HEPA flow hood ➜ flame-sterilized tweezers ➜ dextrose plates labeled by source

• Side-by-side growth to compare speed, branching, and vigor

• Winners move to cabin sequester ➜ agar plates ➜ grain ➜ plug spawn ➜ log inoculation trials

Why bother? No one has discovered a reliable way to cultivate this delicious mushroom!

Safety note: Always cook thoroughly; some folks are sensitive to COW.

Save 🔖, share and follow for the spawn run and log-fruiting updates!




















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