In my short time studying mycology I’ve seen witches brooms, witches butter and devils urns. Today I got to see an incredibly rare fungus- witches cauldron (Sarcosoma globosum)

Fungi, Ancient Egypt, Archaeology and Wood: Results from our interdisciplinary collaborative effort to preserve some of the oldest wooden objects (2400-2200 BCE) from ancient Egypt (excavated from Abydos) with extensive decay has just been published. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Looking at the patterns in the stroma of Rhytisma americanum never gets old

Just out – Differences in fungal diversity in pine stumps at native and non-native red pine growing areas and what it reveals about potential effects on Heterobasidion root rot. Congratulations @EClememsOtto on 2nd dissertation paper published doi.org/10.3389/ffunb.…

Ours is one of many projects that MN Invasive Terrestrial Plants & Pests Center provides critical funding to curb the devastating impacts of #invasivespecies. Thanks for highlighting our research! Minnesotans love their #elm!

First chicken of the season

A short walk in the N Minnesota woods was fruitful

Signage always helps knowing where to find the chickens #fungi #chickenofthewoods

Here’s a hairy woodpecker feeding on bugs in a dryads saddle (Polyporus squamous)

The leaf fades, the pathogen remains (Rhytisma acerinum)

107 years after the Loring Elm planting and DED has wiped out so many, we're still coming together over #elm trees. Thankful for engaging partners like the #isaakwaltonleague and volunteers in helping reintroduce DED resistant elm selections from our program. #trees #plantdisease

Congratulations to @CristinaToapan8 who presented her dissertation research results (on fungi in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorean Amazon) and passed her final PhD exam!!! Two papers already published the 3rd is coming: journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… mdpi.com/2309-608X/8/2/…

Sapwood rules, heartwood drools

Hypholoma lateritium

A new paper just out and a very important one for me in a special issue honoring Prof. Jack Rogers legacy (WSU mycologist). Reporting extraordinary diversity of Xylaria in the Ecuadorean Amazon-these soft rot fungi are IMPORTANT decomposers in rainforests link.springer.com/article/10.118…

Last chapter from Eric Otto PhD dissertation is just published and open access-Antagonistic interactions between native fungi of Minnesota and the root rot pathogen Heterobasidion irregulare onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11… Important naturally occurring fungal antagonists in MN

The gills and color of this Pseudomerulius curtisii are stunning