Foraging for Fungi in Your Backyard
Make friends with your local fungi! Want to learn more about the incredible fungi who call Pittsburgh home? Join Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club Identifier Stephen Bucklin for a presentation where he shares information on the numerous roles fungi… Read More
Boletes with Scott Pavelle
We faced some unexpected technical challenges with the streaming for this meeting and could not link the stream to the published URL. Our apologies to all those that tuned in but missed the show. The clubs bolete specialist… Read More
Observation of Behavioral Interactions Between Forest Fauna and the Cracked Cap Polypore Using iNaturalist Data
A presentation from July’s 2020 online meeting on the Observation of Behavioral Interactions Between Forest Fauna and the Cracked Cap Polypore Using iNaturalist Data by Daniel Gillies. Observation of Behavioral Interactions Between Forest Fauna and the Cracked Cap… Read More
Slime Molds by La Monte Yarroll
A presentation from July’s 2020 online meeting on Slime Molds by La Monte Yarroll.
Polypores and Crusts by Judy Mackenroth
A presentation from July’s 2020 online meeting on Polypores and Crusts by Judy Mackenroth.
June meeting online – Looking for Summer FUNgi
WPMC identifier and board member Fluff Berger presents “Looking for Summer FUNgi”. Summer brings out some of the most unusual, colorful and delicious fungi. Slow down while hiking and keep your eyes roving to find these beautiful mushrooms.
May meeting online: Heavy Metal Contamination in Edible Mushrooms
On May 19th we held our first online meeting. Rather than the traditional cultivation night which we were not able to host due to meeting restrictions we had a talk on a new project: Heavy Metal Contamination in… Read More
EarthWeek: Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club Talk – Live on 7pm 21st April
This was recorded live at 7pm April 21st as part of the Carnegie Science Center Something to WATCH: For our #EarthWeek Toadstool Tuesday finale, Richard Jacob – a scientist, amateur mycologist, and past president of the Western Pennsylvania… Read More
March 2020 meeting
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic we were not able to hold our first meeting of the year. However, we don’t want you to miss out and we are now making both presentations available here. We already know… Read More
Can I eat that? Also known as the edible mushroom year talk.
This talk has been presented at a club meeting and the 2019 mushroom education class by Richard Jacob. The plan was to make it into a page on the website but that hasn’t happened yet. Until it does… Read More
Psychedelic Mushrooms: A New Age of Treatment?
Psychedelic Mushrooms: A New Age of Treatment? Presented by Past-President Richard Jacob, Ph.D. at the March 2019 meeting. Psychedelic mushrooms are becoming less controversial by the year. The presentation covers the mushrooms and chemicals involved, their usage, effects,… Read More
Fungi Features
The second talk of the new year taken from our archives of presentations from talks at meetings or education classes. This presentation was part of last years education class. If you want to move beyond identifying some easy… Read More
Capturing Wild Mushrooms
Over the year club members give a number of talks at meetings or education classes. We like to publish as many of them as possible over the lean months of winter when there are not many walks happening… Read More
DNA Barcoding workshop presented at NEMF 2017
A presentation from Richard Jacob There were quite a few talks and workshops at this years NEMF meeting at Stratton Mountain Resort in Stratton Vermont with two or even three scheduled at the same time. At the workshop there… Read More
Coral fungi of Western PA
A presentation from Richard Jacob Last years educational talk on Corals. The talk covers the different coral fungi families and species found in Western Pennsylvania.
Introduction to Jelly, Club and Corals
A presentation from John Stuart Last years educational talk on Jelly, Club and Corals. The talk covers the identifying features of each group.
Lactarius Update (from 2011)
A presentation from John Stuart From the archives we have an educational talk on Lactarius mushrooms both on the biology of the genus and the species local to pittsburgh.
Importance of mushrooms in woods and forests & WPMC Barcoding Project
A presentation from Richard Jacob This was a presentation given at The Annual Fair Shake a fund raiser for Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services that Pennsylvania and Ohio introduced the WPMC and covered the project. Check out Fair Shake’s… Read More
Mushroom Cultivation For Food and Medicine
A presentation from Mark Spear At last weeks cultivation meeting Mark Spear gave an introduction to mushroom cultivation around the world and brief instructions for growing mushrooms at home.
Soil Ecology and Agriculture
A presentation from Dr. Sarah Meiss, Associate Professor, California University of PA Dr. Sarah Meiss gave an excellent talk at the April 2015 meeting on how she became interested in mycology and some of her current work including… Read More
Safety Advisory
A presentation from Richard Jacob As the mushroom season starts I would like to advise our members on two issue effecting our safety in the woods this year.
Introduction to Polypores
A presentation from Jack Baker, Dick Dougall, Joyce Gross, Jim Tunney and La Monte Yarroll What are polypores and what do they do — Jim Tunney Classification and identification tips — La Monte Yarroll Species Identification — Jack Baker, Joyce Gross,… Read More
DNA Sequence results from Duke – part 1
A presentation from Richard Jacob Work is under way to interpret the DNA barcodes returned by Duke university. This presentation covers an overview of the results and look in further detail at 4 of the samples.
Edible Wild Mushrooms
A presentation from John Stuart There are quite a few edible mushrooms that can be found in Western Pennsylvania and this short talk covers some of the easier to identify ones.
Genera Within the Bolete Family
A presentation from John Stuart with contributions from the Western Pa Mushroom Club Picture of Strobilomyces “floccupus” by Joyce Gross
Mushroom Identification to Genus
A presentation from John Stuart with contributions from the Western Pa Mushroom Club
Morel Madness presentation from May 4, 2014
Meeting presentation by Dick Dougall & Jim Wasik
Poisonous Wild Mushrooms
Meeting presentation by John Stuart
Common Purple Mushrooms
October 2009 meeting presentation by John Stuart
Ascomycota overview
May 2011 meeting presentation by John Stuart
Medicines or Toxins?
September 2013 meeting presentation by Frank Lotrich, M.D., Ph.D. Fungi are in their own separate kingdom. They are not plants. They are not animals. And they’ve evolved their own unique set of chemicals, sugars, polysaccharides, proteins, and assorted… Read More
Introduction to DNA Barcoding talk
May 2013 meeting presentation by Richard Jacob The beginnings of the WPMC DNA barcoding project, an introduction to DNA barcoding and the first results.
Winter Tree ID by Mathew Erb
April 2012 meeting presentation by Mathew Erb, Director of Urban Forestry at Tree Pittsburgh We all know about the importance of tree identification when it comes to mushroom hunting, but how can we identify trees when the leaves aren’t… Read More