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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Fall is my favorite time of year ❤️✨

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Fall is the best time of year for #mushrooms #🍄 I’m loving these rainbow Lactarius chelidonium var. chelidonoides

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

As a traveling mycologist I’ve been kicking around in Colorado for the last 3 weeks. It’s been absolutely amazing✨

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Arctia caja (the great tiger moth!) at 9,000 ft elevation in gorgeous Telluride, Colorado 🏔️❤️✨

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Amanita cruentilemurum - the name of this mushroom means “bloody ghost” probably because it’s all-white but stains red when handled or sliced 🩸👻 #fungifriends #biodiversity #inaturalist

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Pretty pink Porpolomopsis, looking like a ballerina in the forest. This is likely a species new to science, discovered by our research crew last month in Costa Rica 💗 #biodiversity #new #pink #mushroom #fungi #ballerina #science #nature #discovery #costarica

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Sometimes when I feel unhappy, I remember that I’m alive and get to experience this amazing life. Some people I’ve known are gone too soon. Yet, miraculously, I’m still here… kickin, screamin, and pickin mushrooms 🍄🍄🍄

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Gorgeous flowers grow on the side of the road! This prickly poppy, in the genus Argemone, was captured on a back road in southern New Mexico 💚 #plants #backroad #biodiversity #newmexico

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Agaricus section Arvenses from southern New Mexico, growing under a mature blue Spruce at the edge of a gorgeous field on the top of a mountain at sunset ❤️

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Southern New Mexico has an amazing diversity of fungi, including this awesome new species of Neoboletus with the provisional name "southwestern rainbow" 🌈

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Lactarius indigo from the old growth oak forests of southern Mexico 💙🩵🦋✨ #bkuesky #blue #mushroom #fungi #nature #art #macro #photography #mexico

Gills of a gorgeous Lactarius in baby blue

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

If you live in Colorado, we want your mushrooms for free DNA sequencing!!

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Not a pizza with mushrooms, but a mushroom that looks like pizza!! 🍕 Ganoderma sessile ❤️‍🔥 #pizza #mushroom

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Big Bondarzewia berkeleyi, with my shoes below for comparison 🩵✨ #big #huge #beefy #mushrooms

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

The world is a magical place 💛✨ Amanita muscaria var. guessowii fruiting in droves at a Superfund site along the Appalachian Trail in Palmerton, Pennsylvania. PA has 95 Superfund sites, at 3rd highest in nation behind NJ and CA #pennsylvania #appalachiantrail #superfund #remediation #biodiversity

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Gills like the pages of an old book 📖❤️ Pluteus petasatus #gills #mushrooms #fungi #books #booksky #art #nature

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Epic neighborhood score ❤️🍄✨ Bouquets of ringless honeys with a fairy ring of buttons in the background!! #stumped #stumplife #mushrooms #fungi #mycology #foraging #forager #neighborhood #bouquet #honey #buttons #nature #love

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Royal vibes 💜✨ Trichaptum biforme from Peace Valley, Pennsylvania

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

We are all connected ❤️♾️

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Mycena haematopus photographed in West Sussex, England last September for the All Things Fungi Festival 🦄💗✨ #mycology #festival #allthingsfungi #fungi #mushrooms #pink #pinksky #love #beauty #uk #england #sussex

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Last February I was invited to participate in a mycelia women's choir at an interesting community in coastal California called Sea Ranch.

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I found these beauties tucked away under leaves in a neat secret forest south of Medellin, Colombia. This location was a gift, shown to us by our young friend and local Colombian guide Yefferson 💚 The mushroom genus is Leotia, and the species is unknown. #colombia #biodiversity #fungi #nature

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Baskets o’ mushrooms 🩷☺️✨

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Not a mushroom, but a mycoheterotroph - a plant that eats fungi 💗 Unlike most plants, Monotropa hypopitys does not use photosynthesis to sustain its metabolism, which is why this beauty is pink! Instead of green 🩷💚🥰 #pink #monotropa #pinksky #plant #botany #biodiversity #nature #naturephotography

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

All species are inherently valuable, this warty Pholiota for instance 🧡

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

The caps on Mycena amicta start out blue, and fade to brown with age. This adorable color-changing species is common in the Pacific Northwest 💙✨ #PNW #mycena #mushrooms #fungi #fungifriends #mycology #color #true #blue #bluesky #trending #beauty #special #vancouverisland #bc #canada

A family of three mushrooms, the larger with brown caps and the smallest most immature mushroom cap is dark blue

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

This fungus is growing from a sweat bee! Ophiocordyceps specocephala - the same genus as the fictional species attacking humans in HBO’s The Last Of Us! #thelastofus #lastofus #television #fungus #fungi #tlou #hbo #entomopathogen #bee #parasite #mycology #pedropascal #fun #photography #tiny #🍄

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Life finds a way… even if it has to bust up through a gravel driveway to survive, like this tough little warty Amanita 💓 #life #survival #mushrooms #fungi #beauty #warts #nature #wild #amanita #pride #forestproud #emerge #survivalofthefittest #darwin #🍄 #photography #bluesky #macro #fungifriends

White Amanita mushroom with a warty cap emerging from a gravel driveway

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Next week I am speaking for the University of #Wisconsin at Milwaukee!! I jump at any opportunity to #speak for #students - its #IMPORTANT to influence younger #generations about the significance of fungal #biodiversity especially my favorite topic - #Cordyceps #thelastofus #fungi #mycology #🍄

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Woke up to 1,000 Bluesky followers today! Yay- Thank you ALL for supporting fungal biodiversity!! Share my posts to spread excitement about fungi far and wide! 💘 Tectella patellaris below is the only veiled stemless agaric #fungi #biodiversity #nature #bluesky #🍄 #mycology #trending #photography

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Sometimes I like to hide away from the world and peek out from a safe place, like this particular Hydrangea paniculata 💚✨ #garden #nature #hide #hidden #peek #green #outside #secretgarden #forestbathing #earth #hydrangea #plantae #plants #soft #fractal #energy #safety #safe #growth #beauty #calm #💚

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Throwback to summer and HUGE porcini mushrooms! #🍄 Excited to spend most of August there again this year, with at least 3 workshops on my roster including the Rare Fungi Foray at Telluride Mushroom Festival! #exciting #telluride #colorado #mushrooms #fungi #festival #porcini #getoutside #rockies

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

One of my favorite springtime finds in southern Appalachia, the large and lovely Ganoderma tsugae ❤️🍄✨ #fungi #mushrooms #mycology #spring #springtime #medicinal #appalachia #nature #life #biodiversity #ephemeral #nature #getoutside #planetearth #northcarolina #passion #foraging #wild#girlswhohike

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I love this girl. She’s been my ride or die for what feels like forever. And she still is!! My paw queen. Goodest of the good girls☺️ Old age has come for her, but it hasn’t taken her away yet. Grateful for her existence, and for all the work I do every day as a mommy for my angel-on-earth 🩵 #dogs #🍄

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

This #gorgeous #fractal #fungus is in a newer genus called Metacampanella. I photographed this #stunning #specimen while leading a group through the #cloud #forest outside of #Antioquia #Colombia last November. Printing this for my wall at #home now! #photography #mycology #macro #cloudforest #art

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Amanita muscaria var. guessowii from the Laurel Highlands of Pennsylvania! DNA sequenced by the Ohio Mushroom DNA Lab 💚🌲 #mycology #fungi #amanita #amanitamuscaria #science #scientific #collection #pennsylvania #nature #getoutside #appalachia #dna #dnasequencing #eastern #flyagaric #grass #mushroom

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Mandie Quark @mandiequark.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

TOMORROW!! I am excited to be joining my friends to speak on a Fungal Conservation Panel at the Sacred Mycology Summit hosted by Fungi Academy! 🍄❤️✨ Visit the link in my bio to register for FREE! #fungi #biodiversity #conservation #panel #mycology #community #event #learning #online #masterclass

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