South Vancouver Island Mycological Society
The beautiful 2024 SVIMS Calendar is now available (see front cover below). SVIMS members have contributed their photographs and graphic art for each month. The calendars can be purchased by either members or non-members.
The calendars are $20 each. They make a great gift to family and friends.
If you require shipping, please add $5 per calendar for shipping and handling.
See Payment Options on Merch menu.
If you would like to contribute to the 2025 calendar, see the lower part of Merch menu.
It’s that time of year again. Warmer temperatures, watered lawns, and imported boulevard trees equal death cap mushrooms, Amanita phalloides. Two weeks ago they were reported from Oak Bay. Now they have been spotted in Comox (again), near Filberg Park.
Andy MacKinnon did a CBC radio segment yesterday (July 12, 2023) for the All Points West program on Death Caps.
Times-Colonist article on Death Cap mushrooms (Amanita phalloides) in and around Oak Bay. Ex SVIMS president Andy MacKinnon interviewed. Andy also did an interview on Death Cap mushrooms for CFAX 1070 radio.
Great article in the new Macleans about a couple setting up a truffle farm in the Okanagan. SVIMS ex-president Shannon Berch provides the couple with helpful advice.
A new show opened on Saturday at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. It is titled “Symbiosis,” and it features several types of mushroom-related art.
Of special interest to SVIMS members:
(1) An interactive, full-wall simulation of a BC forest with its associated mycorrhizal network. This was put together by Colton Hash. A must-see (short video with this post).
(2) About a hundred ceramic, life-sized models of East Coast mushrooms. Incredibly accurate.
Alan Franck has some good suggestions for what should be photographed if you want to have help with mushroom identification. Posted on the FUNDIS blog.
