Check out our new guides to the fungi of New York City!

Just in time for summer fungi season, Sigrid Jakob and Matthew Rozanoff have put together a series of field guides to species within 16 different genera and groups of fungi – dedicated only to the fungi of our great city.

The guides hope to fill an important gap for our members. While there are several field guides out there both for the region and the country, they contain many species that can not be found in the city. Conversely we find many rare and undescribed species in New York City that cannot be found in any guide.

All the species in the guide are known to occur here and many have been verified by DNA sequencing. Many are not in any other field guides.

These guides will be living documents, constantly updated with the latest science and discoveries. Names will also be changed whenever a species has been renamed by mycologists. The focus on the essential characteristics and the guides highlight what’s unique about a species vs giving all possible features.

The guides are easily pulled up on a phone for field use.

All guides can be found here – they are permanently housed in the Resources tab of our website as New York City Fungi Guides.

The guides cover Agaricus, Amanita, Boletes, Cortinarius, Entoloma, gasteromycetes (stinkhorns, puffballs, false puffballs, birds’ nests and earth stars), Gymnopus and allies (Collybiopsis, Mycetinis and Rhodocollybia), Inocybaceae, jelly fungi, Lepiota and allies (Chlorophyllum, Leucoagaricus, Leucocoprinus, Macrolepiota and more), Mycena, Pluteus, Psathyrella and allies (Candolleomyces, Coprinellus, Coprinopsis and more), Russula, Tricholoma and Xylaria.

We thank Tom Bigelow and the many other photographers who have provided their gorgeous images for the guides.