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Wanted: Amanita smithiana
October 30, 2024 Dr. Colleen Cowdery of the Oregon Poison Center is seeking samples of Amanita smithiana (Smith’s Amanita) for a toxicology study. Amanita smithiana is a West Coast mushroom, first described from Olympic Hot Springs, Washington. It’s sometimes confused with the edible Tricholoma…
Wanted: Amanita parasites
August 11, 2024 Most of you are familiar with Hypomyces lactifluorum, an ascomycete fungus that attacks Russula brevipes (short-stemmed Russula), turning them into “Lobster mushrooms”. Another Hypomyces species which attacks mushrooms is H. hyalinus, which parasitizes different Amanita species. Now researchers want your help…
Wanted: Dead Man’s Fingers
August 7, 2024 Update Oct 30 2024. Samples no longer needed. Hayden Houck reports: “I’m reaching out to follow up about this request and my project. I received a lot of emails from mycologists and foragers who saw your announcement, and I’m super grateful…
“Rare Fungi Discovered”- The Moss
Learn more @ https://mailchi.mp/3779487b2b77/march2024?e=0fbab95de4 The Moss is Columbia Land Trust’s monthly e-newsletter. Cedar Creek Natural Area is a 640-acre forest in Columbia County, Oregon. We conserved this land in 2021 and the high-quality, intact forest with diverse structure is ideal habitat for plants, fungi, and…
2024 January Survivor’s Banquet
Back in the cold winter month of January, OMS members gathered together to share the warmth of homemade food, myco-minded comradery, and to celebrate that our mushroom identification skills and field safety let us “survive” to forage another year! This year we had a…
Lost Mushroomer Season
(Photo from 2022 Clackamas County Search and Rescue mission.) A brand-new Facebook post serves as a reminder of the hazards of getting lost while mushrooming. For the sixth time this fall, the Skamania County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue team was called to search…
Mushroom Church?
In France, local governments and religious organizations are looking for ways to save disused churches. A recent Christian Science Monitor article discusses how many of these historic sites are being preserved by converting them to other uses like are concert venues, hotels, and nightclubs….
Update: Montana Morel Deaths
I earlier reported[1] a mass mushroom poisoning which sickened 51 people and resulted in 3 hospitalizations and 2 deaths. The Montana Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS), working with FDA, has now issued its final case report.[2] The culprit: consumption of uncooked or…
OMS Scholarship Winners publish new papers
Recent issues of Mycologia1 feature brand-new publications by past OMS Scholarship winners. Korena Mifune is the lead author of a paper2 published online in Mycologia on June 1. The paper details findings about mychorrizal fungi in “canopy soils” — thick mats of organic matter…
