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Pop-up Walk Long Pond Park, Staten Island

Please join us for a pop-up walk in Long Pond Park, Staten Island this Sunday!

The club is headed to Long Pond Park on Staten Island this week. While we are still firmly in ascomycete, jelly, and old polypore season, expect to enjoy the wild, wooded atmosphere of this forested park, with the possibility of new fungal growth given the milder temperatures and recent rain. The park is more remote than many others we visit in the city, so make sure you come prepared with proper clothing for the weather and a snack if you plan on staying the whole duration of the walk.

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.

trichaptum_biforme
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Pop-up walk Alley Pond Park, Queens

Please join us for a walk Alley Pond Park, Queens this Sunday!

This week we are partnering with New York City EcoFlora, a citizen science project created by the New York Botanical Garden to document and conserve the biodiversity of New York City. You may recognize EcoFlora from their iNaturalist project, which automatically scrapes many observations from within city limits and compiles information about the City’s plants and their relationships with other organisms, such as birds, insects, and mushrooms.

This month, EcoFlora is running an EcoQuest challenge called Begin the Year with Basidiomycetes. The aim of the challenge is to record observations on iNat in the given category. We're sure to have many opportunities to contribute on our walk!

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.

Madeline DeDe-Panken
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Madeline DeDe-Panken  Gathering Knowledge: Mycophilia in American Culture at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

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Our first talk will look at the history of popular interest in fungi and mushroom clubs. Tracing popular mushroom foraging to the 1880s, DeDe-Panken will discuss an early iteration of American mycophilia which brought a new population of non-professional mushroomers into the field. Like today, they sought a combination of gastronomic, scientific and personal enrichment. She'll argue that the mushroom fad legitimized women’s participation in citizen science by tethering foraging knowledge to elevated, economical cookery and as a public safety necessity to prevent poisoning. Enthusiastic laywomen claimed space and belonging as collectors, writers, illustrators, and club leaders. Yet while expanding opportunities for some, privileged mycologists’ insistence on certain forms of expertise fueled exclusion along class, race and ethnic lines. Ultimately, this research seeks to elucidate tensions surrounding sustenance, science and authority that remain with us to this day.

schizophyllum_commune2
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Pop-up walk High Rock Park, Staten Island

Please join us for a walk High Rock Park, Staten Island this Sunday!

This week the club returns to High Rock Park for the first time in several years! The cold has really settled in this week, which may spell the end for some of our more unusual off-season finds, but jellies, ascomycetes, and other cold-weather fungi are sure to be in abundance.

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.

hypoxylon_fragiforme
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Pop-up walk, Cunningham Park, Queens

Please join us for a walk in Cunningham Park, Queens this Saturday!

Join us for a walk through Cunningham Park this weekend and as continue our winter fungi hunt. This time of year our focus turns mostly to the very small, inconspicuous organisms who do the important work of breaking down leaf litter and sticks into rich soil. These "dots on sticks" or ascomycetes are often unassuming to the naked eye, but become quite interesting under a hand lens or loupe.

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.

Rosanne Healy
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Rosanne Healy – The Pezizales & Their Varied Lifestyles

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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.

peniophora_albobadia
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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.

2023 Business Meeting
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20203 Annual Business Meeting

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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!
panellus_stipticus
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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.

Donald Pfister
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Donald Pfister – The Uses of Herbaria/Fungaria

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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.

xylobulus_frustulatus
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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.

Britt Bunyard
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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.