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silhouette of the mycologistHere are a few of the websites and blogs that we like best. Some are geeky. Well, I guess they’re all kind of geeky. Let’s just say some are geekier than others. We like geeky.

If you’d like more of Kathie‘s photos, visit her flickr photostream (leave me some comments!). If you’d like more of Kent‘s photos and objects and time lapses (he is a professional photographer!), visit Kent’s lab website.


MushroomExpert.com

Got a mushroom to identify? Check the keys here, especially if you’re in NE USA.

American Mushrooms

Dave Fischer’s nice site, especially for northeasterners.

MykoWeb

Michael Wood’s amazing site, especially awesome for Californians.

Tom Volk’s Fungi

Check out Tom’s Fungus of the Month Pages, and more!

MushroomObserver

A place where you–yes you–can contribute data and photos documenting fungal distribution and taxonomy. Thanks to Nathan Wilson.

CABI resources (Species Fungorum)

We love the uber-geeky Index Fungorum, the Dictionary Hierarchy, and the Bibliography.

US National Fungus Collections databases

More geekiness! Host-fungus indices, herbarium specimens, synoptic keys to small things.

WWW Virtual Library: Mycology

I list this here because I, um, run it. But it’s sadly out of date…


Doubtless, you’ve come to the bottom of this list and are mildly surprised or downright outraged that your fine site isn’t here. I’m so sorry. This is meant to be a short list.


Blogroll

There aren’t many other fungal blogs: The Mycokey Mycelium blog is a nice one. Jason Stajich’s blog The Hyphal Tip follows breakthroughs in fungal genomics (and stuff). MycoRant is good for mushroom news and musings; The Alabamycologist is a worth a look; and here’s a Mushroom Blog in Japanese. A very good bet for more stories, if you dare to stray from eukaryotes, is Elio Schaechter and Merry Youle’s Small Things Considered at the American Society for Microbiology. And my writer/biologist friend Jennifer Frazer brings us a great diversity of life blog, The Artful Amoeba, which you ought to peruse. The following list is all I can find in the way of blogs devoted to fungi:

If you can’t see a list of blogs here, it might be because you don’t have javascript installed. You can alternately browse recent posts of these mushroom blogs chez moi on Google Reader.