Wed - January 26, 2005

Mykoweb


Mushrooms, fungi and mycology -- with lots of great pictures to aid in identification.

Mykoweb is a treasure trove of information for the amateur mycologist. The image bank is priceless, especially for those of us who are doing our hunting in Northern California.

In the author's own words:

Welcome to MykoWeb, WWW pages devoted to the science of mycology (the study of the fungi) and the hobby of mushrooming (the pursuit of mushrooms). It is a production of Michael Wood, a past president of the Mycological Society of San Francisco. MykoWeb was started in the fall of 1995 and since then has garnered several web Awards.

The biggest attraction at MykoWeb is The Fungi of California, an expanded version of the former "Fungi of the San Francisco Bay Area". The Fungi of California contains photographs and descriptions of over 400 species of fungi found in California (with over 1780 total photographs). Included are links to other online descriptions and photos of the species treated plus references to common field guides. Also included is a Glossary of mycological terms and a Bibliography of useful mycological references. The Fungi of California is a joint project of Michael Wood and Fred Stevens.

MykoWeb has republished two books that are mycological treasures, but long out of print in book form. The first appears here as The Boletes of California. This is an online reprint of California Mushrooms: A Field Guide to the Boletes by Dr. Harry D. Thiers. Here you will find keys and descriptions of the 85 species and varieties of Boletes known from California when the book was published in 1975. The Boletes of California was done with the permission of Dr. Harry Thiers and the assistance of Fred Stevens and Michael Boom.

Posted at 03:43 PM    

Thu - January 6, 2005

Mycological Society of San Francisco


A great resource for the Northern Californian mushroom hunter.

(I detest blogrolls, which is why I'm making an entry for every link that I think is worth linking to.)

Events, recipes, nice pictures and a veritable fungal cornucopia of other stuff can be found at

Mycological Society of San Francisco

I find a couple of things about the organization of the pages a little annoying (it's impossible to link to sub-pages, so I can't sic Google Alerts on their Events page), but it's generally a well-designed and informative site.

Not a whole lot of information about the challenges of identification, but then, that's why we started Mycoblog.

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