On the Cover:
Gymnothecium (sexual stage) of Pseudogymnoascus sp. LHU strain 407 (Clade G; Minnis and Lindner, 2013) isolated from Pennsylvania. Pseudogymnoascus destructans (formerly known as Geomyces destructans) is the cause of Bat White-Nose Syndrome (WNS), a fatal disease that has devastated North American bat populations (see Burgin and Overton, 2019, in FUNGI vol.12, no.3.) The image was obtained using Calcofluor white stain overlaid with a monochrome DIC image taken using an Olympus spinning disk confocal microscope (33 z stacks stitched together, calcofluor white emissions colored falsely/differently with software). The image was made possible by a collaboration with Tim Beck and Chip Humphries from B & B Microscopes Limited and Chris Anderson from 89 North (Light Re-engineered). This is the first ever published image showing peridial hyphae (dark), asci, and ascospores from a Pseudogymnoascus species. Magnification is 600X. Photo courtesy Abigail Rea and Barrie Overton, Lock Haven University.
Also in this Issue of FUNGI:
Regular Features
Editor’s Letter
Home Cultivator: Someday My Prince Will Come, Part II
by Joe Krawczyk
and Mary Ellen Kozak
Medicinal Mushrooms:
Lesser-Known Medicinal Polypores
by Robert Dale Rogers
The Wild Epicure:
Morels and the Taste of Spring
by Andy MacKinnon
Unusual Sightings:
The Origins of Phallus hadriani
Bookshelf Fungi:
Reviews of the Latest
in Myco Literature
Special Features
Did a Fungus Cause the Salem Witchcraft Panic?
by
Lawrence Millman
Destroying Angel
by Aaron Birk
Telluride and Beyond
by Mark Carnessale
Poetry and Essays
A Mushroom (related) Poem on a Sunday Morning
by Tori Miner
Baker Lake,
Nunavut
by
Lawrence Millman
Mushroom Poem
by Beth Heller
A Mushroom Grows in Manhattan
by Onur Kocatas,
with Derval Mary Keane
and Nicholas Huseyin Kocatas
Rocky Mountain Highs, Lows, … and In Betweens, Part 2
by
Dave Wasilewski
