We are meeting in the Meeting Room of the Riverbend Public Library every 4th Wednesday of the month from April to October inclusively. Meetings begin at 7:00 p.m. and end at about 8:45 p.m. The library is located in the stripmall at Rabbit Hill Road and Terwillegar Drive Non-members are welcome to attend meetings as…
The only other wild animal was a baby deer – huddled in its depression in the ground. We almost stepped on the poor thing as it was so well camouflaged. As each of us quietly crept up to look at it, the baby trembled but didn’t move or attempt to flee. I certainly felt like…
The Edmonton Mycological Society The ‘official’ menu, in dining room terminology is as follows: Potage of Wild Mushroom with Herb Twist Garnish ———————————————————————- Stuffed Portabella Mushroom ———————————————————————- Chicken Supreme Wild Mushroom Du telle or Roasted Sirloin of Alberta Madeira Mushroom Glace If you have not done so, please advise of your preference – Chicken supreme,…
I forgot to add that one of the problems I have is that most Lepiotas have smooth stalks, but this one definitely does not. I suspected Hortensis because it has the raised rim at the base of the stalk, but then it isn’t an orange stainer.
“EMS/NAMA foray report” by Markus Thormann, Martin Osis, and Bill Richards “Medicinal lichens” by Robert Rogers “Boletes in Alberta” by Martin Osis “Microworld” by Ming Chen AMS-developed educational materials The Alberta Mycological Society has developed an educational poster (pdf 251 k) about our provincial mushroom, Leccinum boreale, which we hope will become Alberta’s next official…
Insigne? Maybe, probably…. The orange Leccinums are a tough group to split up, what it is growing with is one key. In reality nobody is real sure what to to call them until some more DNA work is done. So an “orange red top growing with aspen” is as good a name as Leccinum insigne….
Ask any expert on animals, plants, lichens, or mosses about the number of known species in a region, and they will be able to give you a pretty accurate estimate. Ask this same question to an expert in fungi, and the answer will always be very vague and with a large degree of acknowledged variation,…
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My jaw hit the ground when I stopped near red deer at a conservation area. Besides the leccinum which was there in more abundance than I’ve ever seen before, I found a King Bolete! Surrounded by tall grass and aspens I nearly missed it! It’s excitibg what 7″ of rain in a week will do…
As our society grows, we see more and more people out on our official AMS forays. That is fabulous! The more the merrier! However, there is a downside to these increased numbers. We have more people competing for the same space and the same mushrooms. There are also some other problems that arise. With all…
