The Mycologeum

A Living Vault of Fungal Genetics — Preserved Before They Disappear

The Mycologeum is not a trading platform.
It’s a preservation project built out of urgency, curiosity, and a deep, slightly unstable love for fungi.

We’re assembling a living archive of mushroom strains — especially useful ones — to protect them from being lost to climate change, invasive fungi, habitat destruction, and human neglect.

This isn’t a casual collection.
It’s a decentralized, dirt-covered act of conservation, powered by citizen science bioprospectors who find mushrooms worth saving and send them in.

What We’re Looking For

We’re especially interested in:

• Wild or regionally adapted oyster, lion’s mane, and reishi mushrooms
• Shiitake, maitake, and turkey tail — whether wild or cultivated
• Anything growing where it “shouldn’t” or looks strange for the species
• Polypores of all kinds — if it’s woody, weird, or you found it clinging to a log like a secret, we want it

If it’s got potential, it belongs in the vault.

What You Can Send

We accept:

• Fresh mushrooms (whole, clean, and bagged)
• Clean cultures on agar plates, slants, or liquid culture
• Spore prints or swabs (case-by-case — email us first)

Include:

• Your name
• General location of collection
• Notes about where/how you found it
• Photos if you have them
• And whether it’s okay for us to share it in our archive or keep it private

If you want it preserved but not shared or sold, just say so — we’ll honor that.

What We Do With It

If the sample is viable and unique:

• It enters the Mycologeum archive
• We may grow it ourselves for research, testing, or breeding
• If allowed, we may offer it to our Patreon community to help preserve it across many hands

We are not in this for profit — we’re here to keep fungal genetics alive and active.

You’re not giving it away.
You’re giving it a future.

What You Get Back

If your submission is viable and archived, we’ll offer you a cleaned-up culture from our vault as a thank-you. Not a trade — just part of how we keep the cycle alive.

Boost the Science

We encourage contributors to:

• Log your finds on INaturalist to add to the public record
• Use the Ohio DNA Lab to barcode and sequence species when possible

We’re not officially partnered — just big fans of good science.
If you want to keep your name on the strain, we’ll document that.
If you want to remain anonymous, we’ll honor that too.

How to Submit

1. Email mossycreekmushrooms@gmail.com
2. Let us know what you have
3. We’ll send you simple instructions for preparing and shipping it

Want to Work With These Strains?

Our Patreon members get access to select strains from the archive, regular updates on new submissions, and early access to wild genetics before they hit the wider world.

This is field science with muddy boots and scalpels.
This is preservation by people who care more about mushrooms than margins.
This is the Mycologeum.

Help us build it — one mushroom at a time.