Name: Mushroom Idetification
Start: 2023-03-20T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2023-03-20T20:00:00-04:00

February 2023

Thu 16

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Rosanne Healy – The Pezizales & Their Varied Lifestyles

Virtual Event

Rosanne Healy will talk about travels and work to better understand the relationships, ecology, and life history of the group of fungi that we know as “the cup fungi”. These are the fungi that include the famous black perigord truffles, delectable morels, and iconic scarlet cups. They also include many lesser known, but fascinating truffles and cup-shaped, columniform, and saddle-shaped fungi.

Sat 18

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Pop-up walk Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx

Please join us for a walk in Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx this Saturday!

Bring lunch and water.

If you've never been on a mushroom walk with us before, here is what to expect. We highly recommend using the iNaturalist app to document the fungi you find. Find out how to use it here.

Sun 19

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20203 Annual Business Meeting

Virtual Event

Please join us for the club's annual business meeting which will once again take place via Zoom. Normally, the business meeting is a lively social event, and we do hope to return to meeting in person in 2024.

We will review the Society's plans for the year and discuss a variety of matters at hand.

All members are welcome. I look forward to seeing you there!

Sun 26

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Pop-up Walk, Inwood Hill Park, Manhattan

Please join us for a pop-up walk in Inwood Hill Park, Manhattan, this Sunday!

The club will again return to Manhattan for a pop up walk, this time in upper Manhattan. Expect to find crusts, ascomycetes, and jellies after this week's rain. Walks typically last 3+ hours, with the option to depart at any time along the way.

Bring lunch and water.

If you've never been on a mushroom walk with us before, here is what to expect.

We highly recommend using the iNaturalist app to document the fungi you find. Find out how to use it here.

March 2023

Thu 2

Featured

Donald Pfister – The Uses of Herbaria/Fungaria

Virtual Event

Using examples from research that has been done on specimens from the Farlow fungarium I
will outline how these specimens contribute to modern taxonomic and systematic studies and
how curatorial practices contribute to or distract from accurate study of collections. How was it possible to determine that a species suspected to be extinct was found to be widespread in
eastern North America? What can collections tell us about the high and unexpected diversity of
species of an often-collected genus of tropical fungi? Where was Charles Wright when he
collected Puccinia triarticulata and how did he get there? These and other questions will be
examined through the eye of a long serving curator.

Sat 4

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Pop-up walk Clove Lakes Park, Staten Island

Please join us for a pop-up walk in Clove Lakes Park, Staten Island this Saturday!

We finally return to one of our favorite boroughs, Staten Island. The recent rain promises beautiful crusts, parchment, ascomycetes and jelly fungi. Be prepared to examine branches and logs for inconspicuous but often quite spectacular fungi. Walks typically last 3+ hours.

Bring lunch and water.

If you've never been on a mushroom walk with us before, here is what to expect.

We highly recommend using the iNaturalist app to document the fungi you find. Find out how to use it here.

Sat 11

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Britt Bunyard Secret Lives of Fungi

Fungi are weird, fungi are cool, and fungi are beautiful. But how much do we really know about them? For starters, they do much more than just rot things. They control pretty much all life on our planet and are everywhere. Britt Bunyard’s lecture will present fascinating stories and beautiful photos of amazing fungi featured in his latest book. Discover the crazy, wonderful life that goes on all around us, mostly hidden in plain sight. For general audiences, no knowledge of mycology is required. This lecture is based on features from Bunyard’s new book, The Lives of Fungi, A Natural History of Our Planet's Decomposers.

Sun 12

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Pop-up walk Pelham Bay Park, the Bronx

Please join us for a walk in Pelham Bay Park, Bronx this Sunday!

Bring lunch and water. This location is prone to mosquitoes in the summer - make sure to protect yourself.

If you've never been on a mushroom walk with us before, here is what to expect. We highly recommend using the iNaturalist app to document the fungi you find. Find out how to use it here.

Mon 13

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Mushroom Idetification

Virtual Event

Please join us for our ID session on Monday night to share what you've found, get finds identified or to see what others have found.

Thu 16

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Decay of the wood-wide web?

Virtual Event

The ‘wood-wide web’ has captured the interest of broad audiences. Common mycorrhizal networks, namely fungi that physically link roots of different trees together, are purported to be widespread and mediate transfer of resources and signals from trees to seedlings in forests. In this talk, I challenge popular claims about the function of common mycorrhizal networks […]

Sun 19

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Pop-up walk Kissena Park, Queens

Please join us for a walk in Kissena Park, Queens this Sunday! Please join us as the club returns to Kissena Park for the first time in a year! Expect to find jellies, crusts and ascomycetes, aka dots on sticks. If you've never been on a mushroom walk with us before, here is what to […]

Mon 20

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Mushroom Idetification

Virtual Event

Please join us for our ID session on Monday night to share what you've found, get finds identified or to see what others have found.