Mushroom-Collecting.com

A New England and Eastern Canada Edible and Medicinal Mushroom Resource

Edible, Medicinal, and Other Useful Mushroom Links

Research, Identification and Information

• MushroomExpert.com Your online source for mushroom identification! Michael Kuo knows his mushrooms!
  
  

• Tom Volk's Fungi, including mycology, molds, morels, fungus, IAQ, Indoor Air Quality and much more. Tom knows fungi!
  
  

• Rogers Mushrooms | Mushroom Pictures & Mushroom Reference
  
  

• AmericanMushrooms.com David Fischer's site is intended to educate, inform, and entertain the general public in addition to veteran mycophiles and mycologists.
  
  

• MykoWeb: Mushrooms, Fungi, Mycology
  
  

• Medicinal Mushrooms Investigating bioactive compounds from kingdom fungi.
  
  

• Beyond the Morel
  
  

• Penn State Mushroom Spawn Laboratory -- Specialty Mushrooms
   

• Cornell University Mycology Resources
  
  

• Mushroom, the Journal of Wild Mushrooming
  
  

• The Great Morel home page
  
  

• Using a Microscope (MushroomExpert.Com)
  
  

• Bibliography of Systematic Mycology
  
  

• The American Mushroom Institute - Washington DC

Mushroom Growing and Cultivation

• Fungi Perfecti: gourmet and medicinal mushrooms
  
  

• MushroomPeople.com Grow your own delicious, immune-stimulating Shiitake, Maitake, Reishi, and Oyster Mushrooms.
  
  

• MykoWeb: Getting Started with Mushroom Cultivation
  
  

• Field and Forest MycoMart
  
  

• Peroxide Mushroom Cultivation Method
  
  

• Florida Mycology Research Center Mushroom Spore Bank
  
  

• Morel-Farms.com Successfully cultivate a morel crop.
  
  

• Welcome to Mush-World.com MushWorld is a non-profit organization devoted to poverty alleviation in the world through mushroom growing.

Mushroom Organizations and Groups

• NortheastMushrooms  is where people living in northeast USA and eastern Canada can exchange information about edible, medicinal and other mushrooms. Great photo galleries!
  
  

• The Maine Mycological Association (MMA) A group of amateur and professional fanciers of wild mushrooms and other fungi. It was formed in 1985 from a workshop conducted at the Maine Audubon Society by Dr. Sam Ristich.
  
  

• Mycological Society of America The Mycological Society of America is a scientific society dedicated to advancing the science of mycology - the study of fungi of all kinds including mushrooms, molds, truffles, yeasts, lichens, plant pathogens, and medically important fungi.
  
  

• NAMA, the North American Mycological Association a non-profit organization of amateur and professional mycologists with more than 60 affiliated local mycological clubs throughout North America. NAMA's mission is "to promote, pursue, and advance the science of mycology."
  
  

• Welcome to COMA  The Connecticut-Westchester Mycological Association COMA schedules about 20 mushroom walks and 5 lectures each year from spring through fall. All walks and lectures are free of charge and open to the public.
  
  
• Mid Hudson Mycological Association The Mid Hudson Mycological Association was founded by DCC Behavioral Sciences professor, Bill Bakaitis in 1983 in response to a growing need for education on the subject of edible and toxic mushrooms among the students and faculty of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park (CIA).
  
  
• WPAMushroomClub WPMC sponsors meetings, walks, forays, workshops, newsletters, a mushroom cookbook and other activities to aid members in pursuing their interest in mushrooms.
  
  
• The Ohio Mushroom Society
  
  
• Cornell Mushroom Blog This is a great site!
  
  
• Google Groups: bionet.mycology

Mushroom Collecting In Maine and the Northeast

• Mushroom-appreciation.com  Informative and fun. A different point of view.
   
• The Mushroom Hunter Hunting mushrooms in Central Massachusetts, USA
  
  
• Bill Russell's Wild Mushroom Site Bill Russell just published a book about mushroom collecting in PA and the middle Atlantic states. Check out his tips and blog.
  
  
• Matsiman.com Matsiman.com is dedicated to supplying reliable information concerning fruit production of Matsutake mycelia.
  
  
• Maine Hiking Trail Finder This site is designed to provide quick access to informative Maine hiking websites.
  
  
• Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands
  
  
• WildmanSteveBrill.com  Learn about edible and medicinal mushrooms and wild plants, nature, and ecology with New York's best known naturalist "Wildman" Steve Brill.

Mushroom Farms and Buyers

• Oyster Creek Mushroom Farm 61 Standpipe Road Damariscotta, ME 04543-9715 
  Dan and Candice are nice folks.
  
  

• American Cancer Society Researcher Reports on Cancer-Fighting Potential of Mushrooms.
  
  

• Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center - Find a Clinical Trial A Phase I/ii Study of Maitake Extract in Breast Cancer Patients
  
  

• Immune Fx, Grifola frondosa maitake mushroom research and references - Biomedica Labs
  
  

• Ask Dr Weil Best Bet for Breast Cancer Survivors?
  
  

• Sloan-Kettering - Maitake
  
  

• Fungi Perfecti: medicinal mushroom information
  
  

• Cancer Research UK - Science and Research
  
  

• Minnesota Mushrooms.org Mushrooms in Medicine - Chaga
  
  

• ChristopherHobbs.com Medicinal Mushrooms
  
  

• Entrez PubMed Effects of D-Fraction, a polysaccharide from Grifola frondosa on tumor growth involve activation of NK cells.Biol Pharm Bull. 2002 Dec;25(12):1647-50
  
  

• New Chapter - Medicinal Mushrooms

• FungiPhoto.com Great stock photos of fungi for viewing or publishing.
  
  

• EFG Biodiversity Image Gallery :: Mushrooms in New England
  
  

• David Fischer's AmericanMushrooms.com The site now includes 1,046 photos representing some 482 species of fungi.
  
  

• David Work Mushroom Photography Nice stock photographs here too.
  
  

• Pamela's Mushrooms Nice stock mushroom photographs.

• MadAboutMushrooms.com has recipe and writing contests. This site is about so much more than cooking. It is a very personal look at mushrooming on the Southern Oregon coast and beyond.
   

• Wild Mushroom Recipes The Largest collection of wild mushroom recipes online. This site shows an understanding of using the right mushroom species in the right recipe.
  
  

• Mountainview Mushrooms.com - Mushroom Cooking Tips
  
  

• Tasty Mushroom Partnership A few nice recipes on Peter Jordan's mushroom site. 

Mushroom Dyes and Paper 

• International Mushroom Dye Institute
  
  

• Mushroom Dyes and Paper

   

• Emedicine Search Results for mushroom toxicity

• Foraging.com Foraging and Ethnobotany Links page