Welcome to the Great Lakes nexus page of Mushroom, the Journal of Wild Mushrooming.
 

Microstoma floccosa, photographed by Eleanor Yarrow

The Great Lakes Nexus is a set of legacy pages from the old Mushroom the Journal site.

The Great Lakes Nexus features

• the Top Ten questions people ask us about fungi
• a key to the mushrooms of the Chicago area
• our database of historical biographies of mycologists
• a glossary of mycological terms
• Ron Meyers's Etymological Dictionary of Mushroom Names
• a key to the mushrooms of the Audubon Guide to North American Mushrooms
• Each page has a navigation bar of icons at the bottom. There is a navigation icon for each of the areas just mentioned, and in the center is an icon of Microstoma floccosa, the furry red cup fungus pictured above. Clicking on this will always take you back to this page.

• Genera of Fungi
• Species alphabetized by genus and then species name
• Species alphabetized by species name and then genus

All these features are interlinked: a technical term on any page will be colored Steel Blue and clicking on it will take you to a page that explains the term. Any mention of a myco-person will be in this color and will take you to a page with information about that person. And likewise, any mention of a gilled mushroom or polypore that's in our database of fungi from the Great Lakes area will take you to a page describing that mushroom. We hope you enjoy the site and find it informative!

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