Alan Rockefeller

Alan Rockefeller is a mycologist renowned for his expertise in DNA barcoding, field photography, and microscopy.

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Take a tour of my garden as I demonstrate the Mycena LED 10x magnifying loupe. It has white an UV LED's and charges via usb-c.

This product is officially back in stock!! We will be shipping every day until we head to Costa Rica in June.

My website: https://t.co/BHl7eknNYA

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Badhamia utricularis found hanging from the underside of a California bay tree.

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Gymnoconia sp. on Rubus ursinus, a native California blackberry. 1000x with darkfield illumination, showing aeciospores with refractive inclusions in the cytoplasm.

iNat # 345819583 / Mushroom Observer 640437

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This Costa Rica trip starts in 64 days! We will be exploring the biodiversity of high elevation páramo & medium elevation cloud forest habitats.

More info: https://t.co/w87jwcKfKV

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Mycena chloroxantha photographed recently in Oxapampa, Peru. The round cells are cherocytes which make up the universal veil - whitish, spiny acanthocytes are also visible. Described in 1983 from Brazil by Rolf Singer.

Mushroom Observer # 628987 / iNat 341877230

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A cool little Mycena that I photographed in Oxapampa, Perú. Never seen one with this cool stem texture before, no idea which species it could be.

Olympus OM-1 / 90 mm macro lens / 180 images stacked, ISO 200, f/5.

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A cool leafhopper I photographed a couple days ago in Perú. Anyone know what species or genus it is? Reminds me a bit of Molomea but leafhoppers are really diverse.

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Ceratiomyxa sphaerosperma from Mera, Pastaza, Ecuador. This tiny slime mold makes its spores on little stalks, giving it a distinctive appearance. My favorite feature of these are the glass-like stems.

Olympus OM-1 / 90mm macro lens / MC20 2x teleconverter

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Ps. hoogshagenii var. hoogshagenii from Mera, Ecuador. This species is in sect. Mexicanae, though it's on a long branch, so it's not super closely related to anything else. Grows in landslides and disturbed areas. I don't think anyone has cultivated it.

#mycology

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Coprinopsis section Coprinopsis photographed yesterday in Tandayapa, Ecuador.

#fungi #mushrooms

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One of my favorite flowers, Lopezia racemosa. Second photo in 365 nanometer ultraviolet. The native range of this plant is Mexico through Central America. Extremely rare in cultivation - grown by Alan Rockefeller and @crime_pays_but_botany_doesnt - seed from Michoacán.

#plant

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Sandpipers on the beach in Capitola, California.

#birds

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The interior of the peridioles of Nidula niveotomentosa (a birds nest fungus) have surprising green fluorescence in 365 nanometer UV light. Photographed yesterday in Mendocino County, California.

Sliced in half with a sharp razor blade.

#mycology #uvphotography #mushrooms

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In 2025 I made 3000 iNaturalist observations and found 1582 species, 682 of them I had never seen before. I made 46,000 identifications for other people. I did a 5 month road trip to the southwest and east coast, went to Ecuador twice and Costa Rica once.

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Joey from Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't and I are leading a two-week trip to Ecuador this February with local botanists, mycologists, and herpetologists. Details at https://t.co/TaqVj6vYWP

The trip includes workshops on plant and mushroom id, taxonomy, and photography techniques

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Mushroom hunt this Sunday in Quito, Ecuador with the Mycophilic Association of Ecuador and UrbanFunga.

Cost: $1 USD
Sunday, November 30, 2025
10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Parque Metropolitano Guangüiltagua

Register here: https://t.co/z93gK5GHnH

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I will be giving a talk on psilocybin mushrooms Dec 10 in Berkeley, California. Chad Hyatt will be there serving tacos.

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm - $20 in-person, $15 streaming

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Metacampanella subdendrophora growing on scotch broom in Pacific County, Washington.

#metacampanella #mycology #macrophotography #fungi

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Mycena tenerrima from Pacific County, Washington. This tiny and widespread Mycena is in Mycena sect. Sacchariferae due to the powdery cap texture, stem with long setae and disc at the stem base.

#fungi #mycology #mycena

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@legai_la I collected it for the Mycoblitz so it will be sequenced. My guess is Conocybe cf. semiglobata.