Well, I guess we could have paid better attention to this map, or to the dust beneath our feet.  It’s been dry in the midcoast and it showed at our foray at Dodge Point in Newcastle.

(source: https://www.drought.gov/drought/states/maine)

But give 20 people an hour to find mushrooms in the woods and we’ll turn up something.  Thank you Cheryl and Dusty for interpretation at the table.  Lots of good information.

Dogs had a nice time and we learned about spore prints and making art with spores (thanks, Don!).

These Jack o Lantern mushrooms from Monroe, Maine, had luminous glowing gills all night long.  Got them at just the right age and freshness was preserved with the glass bowl (lidded for part of the night).

Teague Morris preserved the bounty of a recent MMA foray with this beautiful image.

MMA Member Mike McNally tells us how.

If you missed the excellent presentation this past winter by Mike at the Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick, you’re in luck now.  Aislinn Sarnacki of the Bangor Daily News wrote about Mike and his simple culturing method in a Bangor Daily News article in July.  Click here to read the article.

Mike McNally photo.

 

 

 

Fun to find emerging from a volva, Amanita jacksonii is one of our most colorful summer mushrooms.  These photos were taken in the Augusta area earlier this week.

Craterellus fallax are being found in Maine.  The last time we had a widespread and substantial year for black trumpets was 2014.

This clump of was found in Newburgh, ME.

Cantharellus ignicolor

Lycoperdon sp.

Craterellus fallax

Laccaria ochropurpurea

Trichoglossum hirsutum

Ramaria stricta

Piptoporus betulina

Pleurotus pulmonarius

Tylopilus felleus

Volvariella bombycina

Gomphus floccosus