FREE MUSHROOM GOODIES: Please have a look at our provincial mushroom posterand bookmarks under “Resources”. These items are available free-of-charge from Alberta Sustainable Resource Development or from the Alberta Mycological Society. Our most recent poster shows some edible mushrooms of Alberta. It is not free, but please contact a member of our executive if you…

Home / Membership The Alberta Mycological Society welcomes all new members. We offer annual student ($15, you will need a valid student identification card), individual ($25), family ($35), and corporate memberships ($35). Members will receive four newsletters during the year with interesting articles, mushroom recipes, program details, foray information, and maps. Please download and fill…

Home / Corporate Associations Mushroom Harvest 2007 Sorrentino’s Bistro & Bar presented its 13th annual Mushroom Harvest event in September 2007. During this month, you experienced the incredible complexity of flavours and textures of wild mushrooms in an array of menu items. The Alberta Mycological Society once again participated in some of the special events…

FREE MUSHROOM GOODIES: Please have a look at our provincial mushroom posterand bookmarks under “Resources”. These items are available free-of-charge from Alberta Sustainable Resource Development or from the Alberta Mycological Society. Our most recent poster shows some edible mushrooms of Alberta. It is not free, but please contact a member of our executive if you…

. My training as a Plant Virologist and my interest with microscopy has guided my path to the Surgical-Medical Research Institute at the University of Alberta, where I am the supervisor of the Medicine/Dentistry Electron Microscopy Unit. This unique position allows me to pursue my hobby of collecting samples, such as mushrooms, for my Microworld…

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 Polypore photos of Feb 16, 2002 by Loretta Puckrin Fomes fomentarius Inonotus obliquus Lenzites betulina Trametes versicolor Oxyporus populinus Daedalea quercina Phellinus tremulae Stereum hirsutum Phellinus laevigatus Twenty-one members of the EMS went on another of those winter polypore hunts. It was a beautiful sunny day and the best part was…

The Edmonton Mycological society Agaricus silvicola Amanita Muscaria Chroogomphus vinicolor Coprinus plicatilis Ganoderma applanatum Helvella lacunosa Hydnum repandum Hygrophorus olivaceoalbus Hygrophorus speciosus Inonotus tormentous Lactarius deliciosus Lactarius torminosus Lepiota cortinarius Lycoperdon perlatum Pholiota squarrosa Pluteus cervinus Rozites caperata Russula chamaeoleontina Schizophyllum commune Suillus luteus Trichaptum biformis Agaricus haemorrhoidarius Armillaria mellea Coprinus atramentarius Crepidotus mollis Gomphus…

This was a trip that gave us a good look at a year old forest fire burn site about 200 km north of Edmonton, which because of a late spring and cooler weather, there were no elusive morels this time. A pair of Sandhill Cranes Birch trees after the fire RETURN

Hericium ramosum This “tooth fungus” is edible when young and can be easily identified by its bright white, branched fruiting body. It grows abundantly in the summer on dead deciduous trees and stumps throughout central and northern Alberta. Leccinum boreale The “northern roughstem” or “red cap” is a choice edible mushroom characterized by a massive…