Canadian Mushroom Stamps 2025

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Today (August 27, 2025) Canada Post released a set of five “fantastic fungi” stamps, a follow-up to a previous set of four from 1989. Keith Siefert, author of The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi, was the main expert-consultant for these. He wrote the original proposal about two years ago and followed the process through all its stages up to the little video and the web announcement. The project was triggered when the head of the Canada Post stamp department read one of the interviews he did for The Hidden Kingdom.
 
You’ll note that Keith stuck one of his career-interest microfungi in the set. Having an arbuscular mycorrhizal mushroom on a stamp may be a world first!
 

New Edition of Michael Beug’s Mushrooms of Cascadia

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Michael Beug’s second edition of his illustrated key to mushrooms in our area, Mushrooms of Cascadia, is now available. Unlike his first edition, which we had trouble getting in Canada, this volume should show up in some of our bookstores. It can also be purchased online in Canadian dollars. 

It is a much more handsome volume than Michael’s first edition, with better typesetting and layout. He has also added two sample walkthroughs of his key at the front to show people how to use the book.

The coverage continues to be impressive. The index of scientific names at the back has about 1700 species names.  There are now 1100 photographs. All but 3 of the photos are by Michael himself or from the photographs of Harley and Kim Scates Barnhart, which Michael curates.

Michael has brought the scientific names up to date and has done a thorough rewrite of the text. This time he has included location information, so we can tell whether the mushrooms are found North America, Europe, Asia, and/or Africa.

                       — Kem Luther

iNat ID mushroom workshop Sunday, SVIMS special meeting Monday

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  1. The iNat Mushroom Identification workshop in Victoria on Sunday is only half full so far.

Mushroom Identification workshop with the iNaturalist program and website.

Sunday, July 21st, 2024

10am-12pm 

Sign up link and Victoria location is in an email to members from SVIMS President on Friday, July 19.

 

 

2. Special General Meeting 

your vote counts, as we are a membership-driven club:

JULY 22nd, Monday

at 7pm

ZOOM ONLY – 15 minutes, max

The link to the meeting is in an email to members from SVIMS President on Friday, July 19.