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Useful Mushroom Websites

The internet offers incredible resources and equally incredible amounts of misinformation.  Here are a few of the best that there is, which we encourage you to explore and use.

• Index Fungorum http://www.indexfungorum.org/names/Names.asp

• MycoBank https://www.mycobank.org/

• Mycoportal
https://www.mycoportal.org/portal/collections/index.php

http://urbanmushrooms.com/index.php?id=69  is funny and geared towards beginners

http://mushroom-collecting.com/index.html is fun, geared towards the northeast and has an awesome cooking section.

Kathie Hodge’s Cornell Mushroom Blog  https://blog.mycology.cornell.edu/  funny, idiosyncratic and scientific — all at the same time.

• We all use Michael Kuo’s http://www.mushroomexpert.com/

Tom Volk’s Fungi is more idiosyncratic and more selective, but equally authoritative: http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/

http://www.mssf.org/cookbook/index.html  Wild About Mushrooms is an entire cookbook on the website of the Mycological Society of San Francisco. These recipes are basic and a little old fashioned (still useful but note that since it’s west coast it ignores some of our species like black trumpets); for a trendier approach and a lot of good info on many many species, try: foragerchef.com

• It’s always good to see what our sister clubs are doing and the Washington, DC club is extraordinarily generous and making all of their recorded programs available on their website. Explore; you’ll find riches!  https://www.youtube.com/c/MAWDC

Photo by Anita A.

Especially for more experienced members

Harvard regularly holds Symposia on Plant Biology. In 2021 that Symposium was dedicated to plant-fungal relations, and talks were recorded and are posted at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpf6kH32m9v9NDg78Jqyf3w

• If you’ve graduated from all of this, and want to contribute to mycology as a citizen scientist, go to:  https://fundis.org/get-started

Fauna/Flora/Funga website