October 24 2010 Sunday The 31st Annual Vancouver Mycological Society Mushroom Show from 11am – 4pm at the Vandusen Botanical Garden, Floral Hall, West 37th and Oak Street. $3 admission at the door, children under 12 free. Wheelchair accessible. Parking free. Mushrooms are Everywhere! The show provides displays of identified mushrooms and other fungi, with their edible, poisonous or dubious status. Also we have displays, speakers, slide shows, books and roving experts on cultivation, preservation, gourmet cooking, medicinal use, hunting, ecology, and cultural use. Bring your own specimens for identification!
Update on 2010 Show details: Mushroom experts speaking this year will include Paul Kroeger, Terry Taylor and Sharmin Gamiet. The famous tempura mushrooms are returning this year, plus wild and cultivated mushrooms and, new this year, a mycorrhizal mushroom table! All are welcome - please bring yourself, your family, your specimens for ID, and your ever-curious-about-fungi mind! whee! - frog
Is this a yearly event? Because if it is, I may try to time a B.C. forest visit with this in a few years.
Yes, it's held every year in October, and for the past decade, possibly two, it has been in the same location. The date is booked well in advance, so please don't hesitate to contact the VMS at info@vanmyco.com at whatever point you are planning your schedule. It is an impressive event - huge mushroom display, great diversity of species & types of displays, lots of experts to talk with, tasty things to eat ... OK I'm starting to reiterate the event description, but it really is something not to be missed! -frog
