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Amanita Ocreata on Vancouver Island? Theory Suggests That a Less Earth-Shaking by Shannon Berch Possibility Could Have Played a Role Fungifama The Newsletter of the South Vancouver Island Mycological Society April 2006 Introducing the SVIMS Executive for 2006 Monthly Meetings: President Christian Freidinger [email protected] 250-721-1793 April 6: Slime! Mushrooms have it too. Vice President Speaker: Dr. Mary-Lou Florian Gerald Loiselle. [email protected] Treasurer Today fungal colonies are called Chris Shepard [email protected] biofilms because they excrete a slimy film - Membership the film of the biofilm -attached to every Andy MacKinnon [email protected] Secretary (interim) surface on which they live. The film is a buffer Joyce Lee [email protected] between the fungal structures and the 250-656-3117 environment and surface, whether it be air, Foray Organizers Adolf and Oluna Ceska [email protected] soil, rock or water. The film is the site for 250-477-1211 oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange, water Jack and Neil Greenwell [email protected] storage, enzymatic activities and protection Fungifama Editors Shannon Berch [email protected] from antibiotics and toxic metals. 250-652-5201 Heather Leary [email protected] May 4: Truffling in 250-385-2285 Publicity Spain by Shannon Joyce Lee [email protected] Berch, SVIMS, Webmaster Victoria BC Ian Gibson [email protected] 250-384-6002 Directors at large June 1: President’s Kevin Trim [email protected] Picnic - details TBD 250-642-5953 Richard Winder [email protected] Memories of the SVIMS 250-642-7528 September, 2006 Survivors Banquet Rob Gemmel [email protected] Foray, identification Refreshments Organizers Gerald and Marlee Loiselle [email protected] workshop and mushroom cookery at Sooke 250-474-4344 Harbour House organized by Kevin Trim. Marcie Gauntlet [email protected] SVIMS list serve master Adolf Ceska [email protected] Sept 7: An Introduction to Fall Mushrooms To broadcast a message to SVIMS members via email: by John Dennis, SIMS, Victoria BC [email protected] SVIMS web site: www.svims.ca Oct 5: Mushrooms and their Habitats in Dues: $20.00 per year per household, payable in January by the Amazon Jungle of Brazil by Jean cheque made out to SVIMS or by cash at meeting. Johnson, SVIMS, Victoria BC and Mushroom Meetings: First Thursday of the month (no meetings Madness December, January, July, and August), 7:00 p.m. sharp at the Pacific Forestry Centre, 506 Burnside Rd W, Victoria. Lots of free parking. The meeting room is near the main entrance door. Non- Nov 2: Mushroom Identification DVD by members welcome. Taylor Lockwood and Elections. Visit: www.fungiphoto.com/Treasurechest/MIT/mit 1 Prez Sez way is to use a “dehumidifier”. Second-hand By Christian Freidinger dehumidifiers are often found at garage and The Earth’s axis, raisins and pickles have yard sales. The dehumidifier is basically a a lot to do with each other. Because of the heat pump, like a fridge, which moves the inclined axis of the Earth, the seasonal ambient air over the cold side of the system climates of the earth yield seasonal to let the moisture condense and collect in a fruitfulness. Most living creatures have bucket and then warm it up to even more developed therefore some kind of storage reduce the relative moisture. It is often used mechanisms to better get over the lean times. in moist, warm climates to improve the air So have humans. We developed a whole quality by reducing the humidity. range of different preserving methods to Setting up an arrangement where the air preserve the ‘fruits’ for future times of need is constantly circulated through some and to keep other interested creatures away. produce trays produces a dehumidifier with a Interestingly, we acquired tastes, which find very fast and efficient drying effect. It can be the flavour created by most preservation used not only for mushrooms but also for any methods quite appealing. type of juicy fruits. Dried Boletus, plums, We use salts and sugars, we sterilize and pears, apples, they all can be dried to such a freeze, we distill with heat or frost, we use degree, that when stored properly, no several bacteria, we smoke and brine. And we additional preservatives are necessary. So, dry fruits, meats, and mushrooms. Drying find a working (!) dehumidifier at a garage preserves many mushrooms perfectly well, sale (around 15-25$) and together we will get sometimes even enhances their flavour. them to work before the fall’s bounty. Drying has many advantages: storage needs less space, no cooling energy is needed, no LOCAL EVENTS AND FORAYS: special bulky containers are necessary, any amount can be removed for cooking, no Summer weekend trips with Joyce Anyone interested in camping, hiking and maybe seeing a fungus or two this summer contact Joyce. Destination ideas: Della Falls, Carmanah, Strathcona or Bamfield. email:[email protected] or 744-3644 SVIMS Annual Fall Foray Oct. 13, 14, 15, 2006 Organized by Jack and Neil Greenwell Lake Cowichan Education Centre $83 per person, room and board for Friday night, Saturday and breakfast Sunday Swapping prizes at the Survivors Banquet. Swan Lake Mushroom Show chemicals, salts, etc. are added. October 29, 2006 But food drying has some dangers as well. Swan Lake Nature Centre The drying process should be as quick as possible to prevent other creatures from SVIMS will soon have a Library! Can you multiplying. Bacterial decay can produce help us build it? If you have library some very harmful substances. Drying with contributions or suggestions for inclusions heat or outdoors (we have a very moist contact SVIMS Librarian. Donations of climate here) is not good enough. books, files, DVDs, CDs, tapes or any A better and far more effective way is to information related to mycology, ecology or rigorously dry the air around the produce thus food are welcome. Phone 744-3644 or forcing the evaporation of water. The easiest email [email protected] 2 FAR AWAY EVENTS AND FORAYS: www.shuswaplakemushroomfestival.com/ NAMA FORAY Newfoundland & Labrador Foray – Sept. 17-20 August, 2006 15-17, 2006 – Avalon Peninsula Hinton, Alberta Forays of 6-10 people will be conducted in This year the Edmonton Mycological Society various provincial and federal parks. Early will host NAMA in the foothills of the Rocky registrants get a discount and are assigned Mountains. Some of the specific sites more desirable accommodations. Faculty: identified are located within the ecologically Michael Burzynski, Dave Malloch, Faye diverse study areas of the Foothills Model Murrin, Ron Peterson, Stan Pieda, Greg Forest, including such areas as undisturbed Thorn, Andrus Voitk, Gary Warren. For more and disturbed habitats; boreal, montane, and information check the website at: subalpine forests and wetlands. There will be www.hnhs.ca/mushrooms. some foraying from canoes along a pristine creek joining several beautiful lakes in William 7th Annual Yachats Village Mushroom Switzer Provincial Park. For more information Fest or to register, visit the NAMA website at October 20 - 22, 2006 www.namyco.org. Yachats, Oregon, USA Phone 541-547-3530 or 800-929-0477 The Querétaro Mushrooming Mission Fax +01-931-964-2200 July 9 - 16, 2006 www.yachats.org/events.html Querétaro, Mexico www.wildmushrooms.ws OTHER MYCOLOGICAL EVENTS: Cowichan Salmon/Mushroom Festival "Wonderful-Oaxaca" Foray Excursion October 28 & 29, 2006 August 6 - 13, 2006 Organized by Ingeborg Woodsworth Oaxaca, Mexico [email protected] www.wildmushrooms.ws INTERESTING MYCOLOGICAL WEB SITES Crested Butte Wild Mushroom Festival It's Morel Season! 17-20 August 2006 http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/morel.html Crested Butte, Montana http://crested-butte-wild-mushroom-festival.com/ Have you got an interesting article, Alaska’s Wild Mushrooms – August 25-27, anecdote, poem or website to share? 2006 – Homer, Alaska We’ll include it in Fungifama. Email your Contact Mary Jane and Tony Lastufka at 907- submission to [email protected]. 235-3633; [email protected]; www.tentandbreakfastalaska.com. ARTICLES OF INTEREST Manning Park Foray September 8 – 10, 2006 Reflections on Mushroom Poisoning – Vancouver Mycological Society Part I By Michael Beug. From his http://www.vanmyco.com/ presentation at the March SVIMS meeting Typically there are about 70 cases of Sicamous & Shuswap Lake Wild human mushroom poisoning and 30 cases of Mushroom & Food Festival animal poisonings that are reported to NAMA September 18 - 24, 2006 for all of North America. Poison Control Needed: mushroom guides for tours Centers receive about 10 times this number For more information or to volunteer, call of calls but the vast majority of their calls 250-836-2220 involve calls where there are no symptoms – 3 usually where a child was seen looking at a their milk. To spot a Destroying Angel look for mushroom or handling it and the parents have white gills and a white spore print, a cup-like gone into a state of panic. Of the calls to volva at the base of the stipe and a ring on PCCs, only about 0.5% of the total are the stipe. The problem is that handling can regarding mushrooms. obliterate the ring and the volva is below the About 1% of the people that are made ill ground surface and is easily missed. The by mushrooms die as a result. Most years resemblance to the choice edible Paddy there are no deaths due to ingestion of toxic Straw mushroom of Asia is striking. People mushrooms, but in years where the fruitings also mistake these mushrooms for edible are abundant there can be several deaths in a species of Amanita. year. The over-all average is about 1 death Amanita muscaria var. muscaria (109 per year due to deadly mushrooms and 1 people poisoned) is probably the most death every 4 years due to severe allergic famous of all toxic mushrooms.
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