Planting Trees – Wildmushrooms
The purple Tecoma flower is considered… Large white rose blossoms… Hydrangea is a plant… The Indian almond tree (Terminalia catappa) is a tree that… Sansevieria is one of the…
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AMS Forum: chantrelles (1/1)
The only chanterelle we get in Alberta is the yellow foot, canterellus tubaeformis. They grow in bogey mossy areas but it maybe a bit early yet. We don’t get e yellow chanterelle in Alberta, like Saskatchewan or BC.
How biomarker-based tests are changing the rules of medicine
In 2026, medicine is finally stopping its game of catch-up with diseases and starting to act proactively. While the world was busy getting used to the idea that fungal infections were just an unpleasant side effect of a cold, scientists realized we are facing one of the most serious threats of the decade. For a…
Monthly Indoor Meeting – October 23
Category: Time: October 23, 2013, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Location: Don Wheaton YMCA, Edmonton Event Summary:We hold indoor meetings during the “off-season” to provide our members with engaging speakers, programs, and discussions on mushrooms and related topics. Event Administrators Available Seats Recent Activity Event Details
Alberta Fungal Database
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,…
Your Executive – Alberta Mycological Society
The Alberta Mycological Society elected a new executive at the Annual general Meeting March 20, 2010. If you have any questions regarding our Society specifically or Mycology in general, please feel free to contact any member of the executive. We will make sure to respond promptly to your inquiries. President: Martin Osis Vice-President: Robert Rogers…
Resources
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 provincial emblem. We have also developed a BOOKMARK (pdf 27 k) that highlights this mushroom. This poster and bookmarks were developed with partial funding by grants from the Alberta Conservation…
Mushrooms
King oyster mushrooms (Eringi) have become very popular among the new generation of consumers and are now used both fresh and in powdered extract form. This is due to their high nutritional value, low calorie content, and richness in vitamins and minerals, making them highly beneficial to human health. As a result, a wide variety…