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Kerri Hydropus
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I love chasing mushrooms all over the country, but I love hiking for them in the Ozarks the most. 🍄
Artomyces pyxidatus, Crown-tipped Coral Fungus

Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
September 11, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Leotia viscosa, Chicken Lips

Upper Peninsula, Michigan
September 1, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Another Gulf South Mycological Society Summer Foray gone but not forgotten. The great amateur mycologists Noah Siegel (MA mycohobo) and David Lewis (magnificent mycologist of TX).
July 18, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Russula earlei (no common name) is a Russula with basal genetic lineage. I love seeing this “old” Russula in the Ozarks.

Searcy County, Arkansas
(Springfield Plateau)
June 27, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Amanita bisporigera, Eastern North American Destroying Angel…deadly toxic cherubs of the woods.

Searcy County, Arkansas (Springfield Plateau)
June 23, 2026 at 10:17 PM
A very high-color Tylopilus rubrobrunneus, Reddish Brown Bitter Bolete.

Searcy County, Arkansas (Springfield Plateau)
June 16, 2026 at 11:17 PM
Amanita ostendemihi (nom. prov.), the Show Me Blusher. Named after the Missouri state motto.

07 June, 2026
Searcy County, Arkansas (Springfield Plateau)
June 8, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Lactifluus glaucescens complex (no common name), one of the many spicy, white Lactifluus.

Lake Charles, Louisiana
May 24, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Funky cluster of Xylaria at the base of a dead sapling.

Arlington, Texas
May 9, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Beautiful Cortinarius subgenus Telamonia from Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri.

18 April, 2026
April 28, 2026 at 1:21 PM
My first fleshy fungi of the season! A Suillus (Slippery Jack) bolete with copious amounts of granular dots on the stipe.

13 April, 2026
Faulkner Co, Arkansas
April 15, 2026 at 2:35 AM
Lentinus arcularius (Spring Polypore), a harbinger of Spring in Arkansas.
March 14, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Lactifluus deceptivus, Deceptive Milky

Randolph County, West Virginia, USA
August 9, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Volvariella bombycina, Silky Rosegill

06 July, 2025
Faulkner County, Arkansas, USA
July 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Amanita onusta, Gunpowder Amanita

20 June, 2025
Natchez Trace Parkway, Port Gibson, Claiborne Co, Mississippi
June 22, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Tiny, but mighty! I don’t think people understand how difficult it is for people in Arkansas to stand up for their rights, especially in a place like Harrison, Arkansas. I’m so proud of the people that came out!💚
June 14, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Purpureocillium cf atypicola

A fungus that infects spiders.

26 May, 2025
Searcy Co, Arkansas
May 27, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Craterellus fallax (Eastern Black Trumpet)

24 May, 2025
Searcy Co, Arkansas
Ozark Highlands
May 24, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Crucibulum laeve (Bird’s Nest Fungus)

23 May, 2025
Searcy Co, Arkansas
May 24, 2025 at 4:18 AM
A Helvella and some with the Hypomyces.

14 May, 2025
Faulkner Co, Arkansas
May 14, 2025 at 6:12 AM
The focus may be the little Galiella rufa (Peanut Butter Cup of the Woods), but there are lots of critters in this photo.

13 May, 2025
Searcy Co, Arkansas
May 14, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Beautiful bison from Osage County, Oklahoma.
May 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Ramaria in subgenus Laeticolora (per martinax), an early coral found in the Ozark Mountains.

27 April, 2025
Searcy Co, Arkansas
May 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Irpex latemarginatus (Frothy Porecrust) entertaining a group of Brachycybe lecontii (Feather Millipedes).

27 April, 2025
Searcy Co, Arkansas
May 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Urnula craterium (Devil’s Urn) from Shannondale, Missouri.
April 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM