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Among FungiCascade Mycological Society Newsletter November 2006 Vol. 7 Issue 4

26th MUSHROOM SHOW A TRIUMPH2006 Mount Pisgah Mushroom

Show another success CMS Eugene - Over 2,800 people attendedthis year’s annual Mount Pisgah ArboretumMushroom Show (display presented by theCascade Mycological Society). This year 258species of mushrooms were collected, identifiedand displayed. While not a record number ofmushrooms, it was an impressive showing givenweather conditions prior to the show.

Eight species were new to our show thisyear (listed below). The labels and label holderswere new this year as well and they were a big hit(thanks to Mark Williams). This was our secondyear in the new White Oak Pavilion and it only getsbetter with age and experience.

Thanks go out to all who participated orhelped put on the show. A special thanks go to PegBoulay, Bruce Newhouse, CMS and its members,and Marcia Peeters and her class. Without the hardwork of everyone, the show would not happen.

New Species Identified at the 2006 Show:1. Dermocybe huronensis var. huronensis 2. Leccinum holopus var. holopus 3. Clitocybe odora var. pacifica 4. Gastroboletus turbinatus 5. Rhytisma acerinum 6. Lepiota glabridisca 7. Discina perlata8. Suillus helenae

To the right isCMS’s newestmushroom ID’er,w/ a Suillus sp. C a m a s P e a r lSuzanne Tate

This year’s Best of Show MushroomHericium abietis

Found by Leslie Scott

CMS November General MeetingThe Cascade Mycological Society welcomes

all to a presentation by Jim Wells of Oregon WildEdibles. Jim will be speaking about the commercial,social, and economic issues of mushroom harvesting.Jim's expertise includes the collection and marketingof truffles and other fungi. Date: Thursday,November 9. Time: 7:30-9:00 PM. Place: Room 115,building 16 (Science Building), Lane CommunityCollege Main Campus.

CMS meetings are held the second Thursdayof the month September-May. For more information,please contact Kyle at 463-5447. Kyle HammonScience Division Chair Lane Community College4000 E 30th Ave Eugene OR [email protected] (541)463-5447

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November Foray ScheduleNov. 11th Sat. to the coast. Led by Grace Pugh andMolly Widmer Nov. 19th Sun. destination TBA; Leader TBA.

CMS forays are usually on the week-ends.We leave from the South Eugene High Schoolparking lot (north east side at 19th and Hilyard), at9:00 a.m. Carpooling is encouraged. Make sureyou dress appropriately for the weather and hikingin the woods. It’s also a good idea to bring awhistle, a basket and/or some small paper bags,water, and a lunch. We ask that you sign a waiverto protect CMS from liability in case you injureyourself or get lost.

General Meeting ScheduleNov. 9 Thurs. Jim Wells, Oregon Wild Edibles.(See details on page 1.)Dec. 14 Thurs. This will be the annual growersseminar. It is an introduction to growingmushrooms for yourself at home. It will befollowed up by a six hour workshop on Sat. Dec.16th for a more advanced, hands on instruction.Learn to grow Oyster and Shitake mushrooms. Ifyou are interested contact Kyle at 463-5447. Or bye-mail at: [email protected] Jan. 11th Thurs. Charlie LeFevre, will discusstruffles and the Oregon Truffle Festival.

CMS meetings are held the secondThursday of the month September-May. For moreinformation, please contact Kyle at 463-5447. [email protected] (541)463-5447

New Rain Brings New MushroomsMeredith Allen

Reports from weekend forays (11/04/06) to thecoast indicate that last week's rain has invigorated thismushroom season. Scouting sites for the LCCmushroom class, Marcia Peeters reports findingseveral Boletus edulis and more Trichalomamagnivolare buttons than she has collected on anyone field trip in many years. She also found a verynice Sparassis crispa, a few Cantharellus cibariusvar. roseocanus, lots of Leccinum, various boletes,suillus, Amanita muscaria in all its splendor, a few A.franchetti, some polypores, lots of Russulas, and a lotof other interesting mushrooms.

In spruce forest south of Florence, our groupfound plentiful chanterelles and a couple of agingBoletus edulis. Shiny pink Gomphidius buttonsstudded the trail like slimy gems and the Suillusfruitings are set to take over the forest. We foundother miscellaneous boletes: B. mirabilis, B. bicolor?,Leccinum, a strange gel-textured polypore, and somelovely irridescent "dermocybes" (Cortinariuscinamoneus and C. ???). Mushroom season is notover. It's just too bad that the rain did not arrive intime for the show.

A Most Unusual Specimen

The Three Stiped Boletus (Boletus chrysenteron ?)


Fun Fungal FactsBrought to you by Meredith Allen

Amanita’s OriginsAmanita muscaria has an extremely wide

distribution; it occurs in Europe, Asia, Africa,Australia, New Zealand, and North, Central andSouth America. In a recent issue of the journalMolecular Ecology, researchers describe usingDNA comparisons to learn its historical dispersalpatterns. Molecular Ecology, Geml et al. (15:[1]:225-39). They concluded that A. muscaria mostlikely evolved in the Siberian-Beringian region,and expanded and fragmented from there.

Monkey MycophagyMany of us have observed animals eating

mushrooms, or at least we have observed chewedup bits of mushrooms that represent the remnantsof an animal’s feast. In this area, the NorthernFlying Squirrel and Douglas’s Squirrel are knownto eat various Russula species as well as manytruffle species. Luckily for them, they tend tofocus on species other than Tuber gibbosum, themighty Oregon white truffle. In my yard, the graysquirrels relish the Boletus smithii that fruitsintermittently, and they will even sample theAgaricus xanthodermus that fruits year-round.

Wildlife biologists have observed deer andelk eat various species of Ramaria, which fruit inlate summer to early fall, when the animals are indesperate need of calories. Deer and elk also seemto enjoy Russula brevipes and R. xerampalina.Biologists have observed squirrel’s stashes ofRussulas high up in trees. Wood rats, moreabundant in the Midwest than in Oregon, will packpounds of Russulas in their nests, favoring theyoung buttons dug from the ground before theyemerge.

At least 22 species of Primates alsoconsume fungi, though most species do not eatfungi as a significant source of energy. Goeldi’smonkeys, native to the tropical rainforests of theupper Amazon River in South America, aredifferent in that regard. They spend up to 29 % oftheir time eating four species of mushroom:

Ascopolyporous polyporoides, Ascopolyporuspolychrous, Auricularia auricula and Auriculariadeclicata. The fungi is a low-quality food source forthe monkey and may contribute to its large geographicrange and low population density in relation to othersimilar species. Maybe they should expand culinaryhorizons: Russulas maybe?

Information gleaned from The Mychophile,47:4: 6-7; International Journal of Primatology(27[1]: 323-46) and Chris Melotti.

Fungi in AntarcticaA newish book chronicles the aquatic and

terrestrial fungus of Antarctica: Fungi of theAntarctic: Evolution Under Extreme Conditions (G.S.de Hoog, ed.). Many species are covered with icemost of the time, while others exist within (rather thanon the surface of) porous rock. The aquatic speciesare typcially of the genus Thelebolus and are found inassociation with mammal dung. If I am not mistaken,we had a member of that genus at the mushroom showlast year, fruiting on Homo sapiens dung. No one willadmit to collecting it.

Thailand Mushroom Research CentreThe Mushroom Research Centre is a non-

profit non-governmental organization whose aim is topromote the study of fungal diversity throughoutnorthern Thailand and Asia by training graduatestudents from the region. MRC has its base nearChiang Mai, Thailand. One of the MRC’s objectivesis to fulfill the recommendations of the Convention ofBiological Diversity and Global Taxonomy Initiativeby increasing taxonomic expertise in fungi in tropicalAsia. Students are primarily selected from Thailandand other Asian universities and are funded throughbiodiversity collaborations and grants. Studentspresently register for their higher degrees at variousUniversities in Thailand, with whom the MRC has aclose collaborations. Students live and work at theMRC.

The MRC also hosts workshops forinternational students and researchers. The firstworkshop on Fungal Taxonomy was held in July 2003at the Centre and attended by 16 multinationalstudents. In 2006, the MRC offered three one-weekto ten-day workshops in Mycological taxonomy and


Plant Quarantine The MRC comprises six mainbuildings, the laboratory, the library, the lectureroom, the main building, the museum and therestaurant. The MRC can accomodate visitingresearchers and students in four “chalets.” Thoughtoo late to register for this year, check outwww.mushroomresearchcentre.net for moreinformation about the MRC and for information onnext year’s workshops.

Mushroom Madness! FUNGAL FEAST

The CMS Board is organizing a “foray” toThe Joel Palmer House. This will be anopportunity to meet and mingle with boardmembers, celebrate (and eat) wild mushroom andshare friendship with fellow CMS members.

Members and their spouses/dates areinvited to join us for an unforgettable, five course,wild mushroom meal prepared by world class chefJack Czarnecki at the Joe Palmer House, located inDayton, Or. on Saturday, December 16th.

The meal costs $68 per person. You mayenjoy their selection of wines and beverages orbring your own ($20 corkage fee).

Please join us for an unforgettable eveningof food, fun and shrooming spirit by sending yourRSVP by Nov. 13th, with the number in your partyto reserve space.

Details later concerning possible carpooling, a truffle foray the next day, an interestingplace to stay the night, and what time we will meet.Contact Michele at: [email protected] or call338-7082.

My Little Pony checksfor staining reaction onthe stipe of a mushroomat the 2006 MountPisgah Mushroom Show.Thanks again to all theID’ers at the show thatmade it possible to ID258 species. We couldn’thave done it without you!

MYCO-PERSONALS:

P = Polypore MR = Mycorrhiza Ag = Agaric Sa = Saprobe HS =Hybrid Swarm Sl = SlimeAs=Asco O = Omnitrophic Robust, fleshy Ag in taxonomic transition seekscompanion. I’m slightly viscid, but never tacky. Ibruise easily, so please be gentle! Broad cap, stalkequal to tapered, odor mild to (sometimes) acrid.Interests: soil ramification, geotropism. Turn-Ons:Meltzer’s reagent, pleurocystidia, ornamented spores.Turn-offs: Secondary molds, parasites, delequescers.ISO slender, unwarted Agaric, Stalk/bulbproportional, spore color unimportant…. Let’s see ifwe are compatible mating types! No secondaries,please. Young, firm Shaggy Mane ready to bust up somecompacted soil with you! Maybe we can trooptogether. No delequescers. Me: O, deep-rooted and fibrillose, somewhat bulbous.You: O, flexible to cartelagenous, brightly coloredand fragrant. Please have an interesting stainingreaction and a superior, skirt-like annulus.Facultatively saprobic? Scurfy to scabrid, occasionally scabrous sporocarpseeks silky-striate significant other to comparelamellae and search for clamp connections.Evanescent veil a plus.

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MUSHROOM HAIKUBy Molly Widmer

The Russula skinsStick to my knife likeThe pellicle of life.

A little shrimpy,But still no maggots

And the flesh is crisp.

Finally I turn and leaveThis room made by trees

That contains such joy.


A Friendly ReminderTime to renew! Yes, It is that time of year

again. CMS memberships are for one year, fromJanuary 1 to December 31. Please fill out amembership form (see reverse) so that MembershipChair Cheshire Mayrsohn can check that she hasyour correct address and e-mail. If you have anymembership questions, please call Cheshire at 689-8189.

Welcome New MembersPlease welcome the following people to CMSmembership:This is the place where I am supposed to list thenew members. Your editor has temporarilymisplaced the list of the new members. Thisnewsletter will go out to all new, renewing andlifetime members. (I just don’t know which iswhich.) I will include the list in the nextnewsletter. Ed.

Enjoy thesepictures instead.

Best of Show: Third & Second Place

Sparasis crispa Amanita muscaria Jim Boyd Steen and Sue

CMS Board meetings are generally held on thefirst Thursday of the month in the home of aBoard member. Contact Kyle Hammon (463-5447)or Chris Melotti (746-7548) to learn the time andplace for meetings.

Officers:President: Dean JohnstonVice President: Kyle HammonSecretary: Matthew JohnsonTreasurer: Chris MelottiMembers at large: Joe Spivack

Meredith AllenGrace PughSeth MillerMichelle PakRyan Woolverton

Newsletter editor: Matthew JohnsonForay Coordinator: Grace PughWebsite: Seth MillerMembership Chair: Cheshire Mayrsohn

This is the newsletter of Cascade MycologicalSociety. It is published four times a year, on amycologically oriented schedule so expect them inlate summer, fall, winter and spring. PLEASE send articles, poems, drawings,announcements and corrections to Matthew Johnsonat [email protected] is a non-profit under 501(c)(3). Donations aretax deductible to the fullest extent allowed under thelaw.E- Mail Lists

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