Twenty-five SVIMS members gathered on a warm and sunny Saturday at the Pearson College parking lot on April 4, 2026, for a mushroom foray on the college’s trail system.
Searchers found about 30 different species. Most of them can be seen on iNaturalist at these links to Kem Luther’s and Andy MacKinnon’s posts. Since the focus was on collecting samples to submit for sequencing to the BC MycoMap project, not all species were recorded on iNaturalist. Among those seen but not recorded were Amanita pantherinoides, Amanita constricta, Trichaptum abietinum, Formitopsis mounceae, and Inocybe palidicremea.
Some of the interesting observations included: (click photo to see the corresponding iNaturalist entry):
