South Vancouver Island Mycological Society
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.
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.
Fall is almost here. Time for another year of great SVIMS talks. To get us started, we have our own Juliet Pendray. She will be doing a presentation on lichens, our secret mushrooms. Come and be amazed at the versatility and variety of this compound life form.
Paul Kroeger will be our February SVIMS speaker. Paul comes over from Vancouver almost every February to give one of his matchless talks.
