Bringing Mushroom Terminology Down to Earth with Anna DeMers

Are you stuck foraging and working with the mushrooms that you know, while many of the others remain hard for you to identify? During this workshop you will learn different features of mushrooms and their terminology related to the gills, caps and stipes (stems), so that you can better utilize your books and resources. Throughout the learning, we will practice noticing features and using terminology to describe a variety of wild mushrooms that the instructor brings to the class and ones that we gather together in the woods during a short foray.
Participants will:
• Learn the terminology that help you recognize patterns in mushroom families.
• Gain confidence in using macroscopic (visible to the eye) mushroom features to better distinguish and identify mushrooms to family and sometimes species on your own in the field.