The Gary Lincoff Memorial Foray
The Gary Lincoff Memorial Foray will be held on Saturday, September 21st : Walks, presentations, auction, book signing, sales, table-walk, mushroom feast. Rose Barn, Pearce Mill Rd, North Park, McCandless Township, PA, 15101. We plan to combine this with a… Read More
About the Club
The Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club was created to promote the enjoyment, study, and exchange of information about wild mushrooms. Everyone who has an interest in wild mushrooms is welcome to become a member. Activities include regular meetings, projects… Read More
Bolete Filter
The Bolete Filter is a triage (A Synoptic Key) for North American Boletes developed by Scott Pavelle with lots of input from other club members and country wide experts and hosted by the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club. Tradition… Read More
Newsletter
March to April newsletter has been published
Welcome to the 2019 mushroom season. The first newsletter of the year has been published and members should have received a copy by email or through the post. The March to April newsletter has lots of information about… Read More
Species list from Bird Park Winter walk on 02/03/2019
Species list entered and identified by Jim Tunney. List of species found on the walk at Bird Park Winter walk: Auricularia americana (Tree-ear / Wood Ear), Daldinia concentrica (Carbon Balls), Flammulina velutipes (Velvet foot; Enokitake), Galerina marginata (Deadly galerina),… Read More
Species list from Black Friday walk at Camp Guyasuta on 11/23/2018
Big turnout for today’s Black Friday Mushroom Walk to benefit Camp Guyasuta. We had 24 people, from non-members to WPMC Mycologists. There was quite a freeze on the Thursday and many of the larger mushrooms that we found… Read More
Species list from Chatham University Eden Hall campus Fall festival on 11/04/2018
WPMC joined Chatham University at the Eden Hall campus for their Fall festival. We took a group of people into the forest to search for autumn mushrooms. On the walk from the parking lot to the meeting point… Read More