Wed, Dec 16
|Zoom
General Meeting and Speaker, December 2020 | Else Vellinga : Fascinating Mushroom Spores
Else will talk about how spores are released into the world, show different spore shapes and embellishments and will ponder on the function of those different colours and ornamentations and the correlation with the mushroom’s life style.
Time & Location
Dec 16, 2020, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Zoom
About This Event
Normally we hold our Holiday Potluck in December, and we don't hold a club meeting. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, this year we're switching it around, and we'll hold a club meeting and no potluck! At the beginning of the meeting, Anna Cameron from CALFIRE will give short overview of the Soquel Demonstration State Forest and opportunities for mushroom collecting there. Normally CALFIRE makes mushroom gathering permits available at our first fall meeting, but since that cannot happen in person in 2020, there will be an online form where you can sign up for a permit.
Else Vellinga is a mycologist who is interested in naming and classifying mushroom species in California and beyond, especially Parasol mushrooms. She has described 22 species as new for California, and most recently worked at the herbaria at UC Berkeley and SFSU for the Macrofungi and Microfungi Collections Digitization projects. She got her training at the national herbarium in the Netherlands, and her PhD at the university of Leiden. In 2019 NAMA presented her with the Gary Lincoff award for her contributions to amateur mycology. She tries to keep current with the mushroom literature. Else is also an avid knitter and likes to use mushroom dyed yarn for her creations.
Photo: Lepiota spheniscispora penguin-shaped spores. © Christian Schwarz (CC-BY-NC) (from inaturalist.org, ID 3570910)