Thu, Feb 25
|Santa Cruz Area
Virtual Mushroom ID Class, February 2021
Back by popular demand, we are conducting our second two-part virtual mushroom ID class using Zoom. You will collect mushrooms on your own, and learn how to ID them during the sessions.
Time & Location
Feb 25, 2021, 7:00 PM – Mar 01, 2021, 9:00 PM
Santa Cruz Area, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
About This Event
The class is aimed at students who have a serious interest in learning how to identify mushrooms and are willing to put in the time and effort to learn. We are planning to hold the class over two separate sessions, the first on Thursday, February 25th from 7-8 pm and the second on Monday, March 1st from 7-9 pm.
In the first session, Phil Carpenter and assistants will use the common field guides Mushrooms Demystified and Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast to go through the process of putting names on several mushrooms. Of course, questions and discussions can occur as well. Between the two dates, everyone is required to collect some mushrooms and put names on them as best you can based upon the lessons given in the first session.
The second session will be a discussion of the mushrooms which have been named, going over the process used to arrive at the name, with instruction to correct the identification if it was misnamed. By necessity this will need to be done one specimen at a time. As many as possible will be covered in the time allotted.
Photo: Collybia nuda. © kikeda (CC-BY-NC) (inaturalist.org, obs. 330151493)