Yashroom Photography: Fungi of New York

Yashroom Photography: Fungi of New York Well... MOSTLY fungi (slime molds, too) of New York... but I wanted to keep the title short 😀

I like to take pictures of fungi. Sometimes they come out good.

I like to share their beauty.

Awww look at these purple fellas being all cute on a tiny little moss hill!!This is Cortinarius iodes or iodeoides, one ...
09/08/2026

Awww look at these purple fellas being all cute on a tiny little moss hill!!

This is Cortinarius iodes or iodeoides, one of the purple webcaps.

📍Harriman State Park, NY
📅 August 2026

Red, yellow, then blue!!Baorangia is a small genus of boletes, the pore-making mushrooms that look sponge-bottomed inste...
09/06/2026

Red, yellow, then blue!!

Baorangia is a small genus of boletes, the pore-making mushrooms that look sponge-bottomed instead of gilled. The genus was carved out of the old giant Boletus bucket after DNA work showed that many “boletes” were not as closely related as their matching cap-and-pore design made them seem.

The name Baorangia is nicely literal: in Chinese, bao means “thin” and rang means “hymenium" (spore-bearing tissue layer) referring to the unusually shallow tube layer under the cap. You can see that nicely in the second picture.

In the Northeastern U.S., the familiar face of this genus is usually the Baorangia bicolor complex, the red-and-yellow boletes (a.k.a. Bicolor Boletes) often found with oaks. These are mycorrhizal fungi, meaning they partner with tree roots underground instead of decomposing wood. 🌳

The color chemistry is part of the show. Many boletes bruise blue when injured because yellowish bolete pigments can oxidize into blue compounds, basically a tiny chemical reaction happening where the mushroom is touched or cut.

📍Harriman State Park, NY
📅 August 2026

Happy World Beard Day! It's today!!And I guess these fungal cuties right here kinda have fluffy beards?? Foot-beards??? ...
09/05/2026

Happy World Beard Day! It's today!!

And I guess these fungal cuties right here kinda have fluffy beards?? Foot-beards??? Sounds weird but let's not impose our body plans on this different kingdom. It's just a beard. End of story.

I don't know what this species is called... maybe some Collybiopsis sp.? Well, they'll be sequenced as a part of the Summer Continental Mycoblitz, so we'll find out!

📍near Cold Spring, NY
📅 August 2026

WOOOWWW this was a feast for my eyes!! 😍These are the so-called waxcaps. Hygrocybe sp., possibly Hygrocybe miniata, but ...
09/03/2026

WOOOWWW this was a feast for my eyes!! 😍

These are the so-called waxcaps. Hygrocybe sp., possibly Hygrocybe miniata, but I'm not sure. Tiny red and orange waxcaps are tricky, and H. miniata has several close visual neighbors.

Hygrocybe are the classic waxcaps: small, bright, often glossy mushrooms with thick, waxy-feeling gills and white spores. In eastern North America, many show up in woods, mossy spots, and leaf litter.

The “waxy” part is not just a cute name. Their gills often look thick, soft, and slightly glassy, which gives them a very different feel from the papery gills of many other small mushrooms. Some are scarlet, orange, yellow, greenish, gray, or almost translucent.

Their ecology is still more mysterious than you might expect. Waxcaps were once treated mostly as simple decomposers, but studies suggest some may interact with living plant roots or other soil partners, making their lifestyle more complicated than “small mushroom eats dead stuff.”

📍near Cold Spring, NY
📅 August 2026

A long-legged pore-y fella!This is (probably) Leccinum longicurvipes. It's a bolete, which means it releases spores from...
09/01/2026

A long-legged pore-y fella!

This is (probably) Leccinum longicurvipes. It's a bolete, which means it releases spores from a spongy pore surface under the cap instead of from gills. Its cap is often yellow-orange to brown-orange and sticky or slimy when fresh (LOOOK AT HOW IT GLISTENS!!), while the pores start pale yellow and can age toward olive-yellow.

The name longicurvipes means “long curved foot,” and it fits. One of the best field clues is a relatively slender stalk that often curves near the base, with tiny rough dots that darken from yellowish to reddish brown as the mushroom ages.

Ecologically, this is a tree-partner mushroom. Like other Leccinum species, it is ectomycorrhizal, meaning the fungus connects with tree roots underground and trades water and minerals for sugars from the tree.

📍Harriman State Park, NY
📅 August 2026

Mmm... fall is just around the corner!! 🍂🍁This is Hypholoma sp., probably H. lateritium, a.k.a. the Brick Cap.📍Inwood (M...
08/30/2026

Mmm... fall is just around the corner!! 🍂🍁

This is Hypholoma sp., probably H. lateritium, a.k.a. the Brick Cap.

📍Inwood (Manhattan), New York City
📅 November 2025

Calycina citrina (a.k.a. Yellow Fairy Cups) is a tiny yellow cup fungus that fruits in dense clusters on decaying logs a...
08/28/2026

Calycina citrina (a.k.a. Yellow Fairy Cups) is a tiny yellow cup fungus that fruits in dense clusters on decaying logs and stumps. Each cup is smaller than a peppercorn, but when hundreds show up together, they can look like someone sprinkled lemon zest across the wood.

It is saprobic, meaning it feeds on dead material, helping break down woody debris and cycle nutrients back into the forest floor. Its favorite stage is wet, softened wood where the bark has often already fallen away.

This is an ascomycete, so the bright little discs are spore-making surfaces lined with microscopic sacs called asci. In other words, every “lemon dot” is a tiny launch pad.

📍 near White Plains, NY
📅 September 2025

Hmm... not sure what these ones are except ADORABLE!Look at the moss! The gills!! The textures!!!📍near Cold Spring, NY📅 ...
08/27/2026

Hmm... not sure what these ones are except ADORABLE!

Look at the moss! The gills!! The textures!!!

📍near Cold Spring, NY
📅 August 2026

A lanky cony boi!Parasola conopilea (a.k.a. the conical brittlestem) is a fragile little mushroom of wood chips, leaf li...
08/26/2026

A lanky cony boi!

Parasola conopilea (a.k.a. the conical brittlestem) is a fragile little mushroom of wood chips, leaf litter, buried wood, and twiggy debris. It is saprobic, meaning it feeds on dead material

It has the classic brittlestem personality: thin stem, dark spore print, and a cap that changes color dramatically as it dries, which is what you see in the picture. Fresh caps can be reddish brown, then fade toward pale tan or grayish beige, which means the same mushroom can look like two different species a few hours apart. 🔍

📍Inwood (Manhattan), New York City
📅 May 2026

I don't know what they're called. I call them CUTE!!📍Harriman State Park, NY📅 August 2026
08/25/2026

I don't know what they're called. I call them CUTE!!

📍Harriman State Park, NY
📅 August 2026

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