The September 4 monthly meeting will be at a new location:
Pacific Forestry Centre
506 Burnside Road West
Victoria BC V8Z 4N9
Doors open at 6:30pm to socialize and identify mushrooms.
Leah Bendlin
will speak with us about
Common Fall Mushrooms and their Lookalikes
See more details about her below the poster.
Leah Bendlin is a Portland based mushroom and community science enthusiast. She caught the mycology bug after her first outing hunting chanterelles with a friend. She was amazed at the diversity of other mushrooms that day, and set out to learn the science of identification. That curiosity proved insatiable, and now, 12 years later, she has become an expert taxonomist and aspires to learn the name of every mushroom she encounters, and delights in teaching others. Leah has special interests in taxonomy, uncommonly known edibles, mycoheterotrophic plants, slime molds, ascomycetes (cup fungi) and social justice. She regularly leads mushroom ID classes and walks through various Pacific Northwest organizations and has volunteered as a teacher, identifier and board member of the Oregon Mycological Society. You can find her Instagram page, focused primarily on teaching mushroom species of the Pacific Northwest at
https://www.instagram.com/leah_mycelia/
