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Sarah Le Tourneau

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Sharing my love of Fungi and the Forest through myco photography and citizen science. South Central Pennsylvania and Northern VT.

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Impact of your support to the girls and women in Uganda.
Though these girls are experts in mushroom 🍄 growing, they are still in school.
Thank you so much for the support

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Unboxing is always lovely and fun. Thank you so much @flushcrusher

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The Fanciest Skirt! 🍄🤩🫶
Probably 🆔 Agaricus silvicola, what are your thoughts guys?
#mushroomsofnepal #mushlove

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Hoy caminamos los senderos junto a @codama.ceramica y @eltallerdelcarlu y nos llenamos de colores y formas. La humedad combinada con la temperatura hizo vibrar el reino #funji ... #ecoturismo #hongos🍄 #funjiworld

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Happy Fungus Friday fungi friends! Day Six here with @forest_apsara with my NAMA takeover sharing with you today some early August gems, primarily from Carbon county PA. I previously thought I’d be sharing some of my favorite culinary mushrooms, but I kept gravitating towards these Unicorn entolomas and deep colors from those dog days of summer. So here are some August highlights.

Slide 1. Unicorn Entoloma (murrayi)

Slides 2. And 3. Mushroom mandala including saffron milk cap, elfin saddle, unicorn entoloma, cortinarius iodes, chanterelles, black trumpet, and russulas.

Slide 4. Dog-noses fungus/camarops petersii

Slide 5. Myself, natural habitat!

Slide 6. Wax caps

Slide 7. Cortinarius iodes

Slide 8. Tigers-eye fungus, Coltricia

Slide 9. Hydnellum aurantiacum

Slide 10. Violet-grey bolete

Thanks for looking! See you next time ✨🍄✨

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Day Five with @forest_apsara here as your host in my NAMA takeover. Super stoked to bring this series to you today! I’ve got cordyceps and zombie moths for ya!
Nature being metal. These cordyceps I found in Washington County Vermont, last July and the zombie moth in Lancaster County PA in October.

Slide 1. Goldenthread cordyceps and underground puffball or “false truffle.” Alongside green elf cup, chloriciboria aeruginascens.

Slide 2. Cordyceps militaris parasitizing a sphinx moth larva alongside Tolypocladium ophioglossoides a goldenthread cordyceps parasitizing an underground puffball, genus Elaphomyces. Thank you @appalachiangold_fungi for answering my questions while I was on a mountain top finding these! I would have never have found the “false truffle”otherwise. And thank you for verifying that this is the seldom seen “orange phase” of this tolypocladium type, notable as the only type that has the long mycelium threads connecting to its host rather than growing directly from the host.

Slide 3. Underground puffball or “false truffle” being parasitized by the goldenthread.

Slide 4. Tolypocladium ophioglossoides: Goldenthread cordyceps with the golden threads (mycelium) visible, alongside viscid black earth tongues. (This is a young specimen, its color and texture will deepen as it ages.)

Slide 5. Cordyceps militaris with pupa

Slide 6. Close up of fertile head of cordyceps militaris to see rough pores.

Slide 7. Super close up of head of cordyceps militaris. Notice shapes of textured pores. Resembles spore shape I believe.

Slide 8. Zombified moth! Akanthomyces tuberculatus
Notice how the moth ran into a roadblock (wood splinter) which would have halted its death march.

Slide 9. Very far gone tree stump, scene of the zombie moth’s death march upwards to complete its mission of optimum spore release height. Resinous polypore stairway to heaven.

Slide 10. Zombie moth face!!

Thanks for tuning in! I will be posting more cordyceps and zombie moths in the stories. See you Friday for some choice edible finds.

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Winter Friday afternoon featuring Sarah’s favorite tree.

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Day Four with the @forest_apsara NAMA takeover here with a little series from a walk in Swatara State Park in early October, showcasing what I found in a few hours. Well, I found a lot more but featuring a few in the slides provided. Mushroom hunting is great for the body-brain chemistry, as our brains love finding novelty and the thrill of “discovery.” That excitement comes with a dopamine release. Put that together with the endorphins released from overcoming obstacles like leaping logs and scaling boulders, and it’s no wonder mushroom hunting can get addictive! And it absolutely promote well-being. Featured here is a laccaria, possibly bicolor, marasmius rotula, pretzel slime mold or Hemitrichia serpula, some gorgeous but deadly Jack O’Lanterns with white baneberry, honeys with a red chanterelle, witches butter and violet-toothed polypore ending with some xeromphalina campanella. I wanted to showcase some of the beauty found in a single walk.

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Day Three with @forest_apsara here, showcasing some coral fungus from the past summer season. I love corals. They look like they should be in the ocean with brightly colored fish swimming betwixt them and instead they have the occasional eastern newt navigating around them! The last image is an earth tongue.

1. Ramaria Stricta with Eastern newt (Copperas Trail, Red River Gorge Kentucky)

2. Clavaria zollingeri Purple Coral 💜 (North-East Kingdom Vermont)

3. Clavulinopsis fusiformis golden spindles/forbidden French fry (Trout Run Pennsylvania)

4.Ramaria kunzei white coral with a hint of blush, alongside elfin saddle (Swatara State Park Pennsylvania)

5. Sparrasis spathulata Eastern Cauliflower (Money Rocks park Pennsylvania)

6. Clavulina coralloides crested coral (Swatara State Park Pennsylvania)

7. Ramaria Formosa Yellow-tipped fungus

8. Orange Spindles

9. Artomyces pyxidatus I believe, possibly older and looking a peachy tan, growing up a tree which I have never seen before! (

10. Glutinoglossum glutinosum viscid black earth tongue

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Day Two from @forest_apsara bringing you Honey fungus, Armillaria genus and aborted entoloma. There is an interesting chemistry between these two that has some debate around it regarding what about the interaction of these two mushrooms causes the mushroom to abort and shape-shift into the funky popcorn like shrimp of the woods. A case of whodunnit more or less. Popular thought suggests that the honey is the culprit. These are from early October, south-central PA.

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Happy New Year 2024 is a time for the world to come together and celebrate a new beginning. Sending images is an excellent way to express your wishes of joy and prosperity to your family, friends, and loved ones.Tanti auguri!🍄🍄🇮🇹🌳🌳
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#hribi #fungi #funghimagazine
#mushroomphotos #ciuperci #mynaturedaylife
#mushrooms🍄 #naturephoto #naturephotography

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