Joey Tanney talk on Endophytes — SVIMS, Feb 6, 2020

We’ve all got ’em.  Endophytes.

They’re the silent partners of all life, the bacteria and fungi that live quietly between (and sometimes inside) the cell walls of plants, animals, and other fungi. 

Come to the SVIMS meeting on Thursday, February 6, and hear the Pacific Forestry Centre’s own Joey Tanney spill the beans on the secret world of endophytic fungi.

Rhytisma punctatum, tarspot fungus, an endophyte living within the leaf of a Bigleaf Maple

Lichen Talk and Walk

On Thursday, September 10, 2019, SVIMS own Juliet Pendray did a fascinating talk on lichens, the partnered fungi.

She brought along samples of several different lichens so that the audience could analyze them.

On Saturday, Juliet led a lichen-and-everything walk in Metchosin’s Devonian CRD Park. 

Pippi Lawn participates in the sport of Lichen Licking.  The Lichen liked it. Pippi not so much.