New Mexico Mycological Society
- February 1999
February Meeting
Ruth Bronson will present
a basic
program on the parts of the mushrooms that are needed to identify a
species.
Our meeting will be at the Natural History Museum on
February 2nd at 7:30pm. I realize this falls on Groundhog Day, but
members need not bring any stuffed critters to celebrate this event. In
case any do show up, a certain member has assured us that they will
be shot on sight.
Last Month's Meeting
Larry Weingarten brought up a couple of subjects at the January Meeting.
One was a plan to build some wooden frames for organizing and showing
mushrooms at Forays and other opportunities for public display. These
will be similar to those used at the 1997 NAMA Conference at Copper
Mountain. We will have more information on these in the next month or two.
Larry also encouraged members to pursue our plan to compile a set of
slides of common New Mexico Mushrooms. This can and should be a collective
effort. More information about the species lists is oulined below.
Field Trip to Alamosa
At the last meeting I brought up a suggestion to hold a field trip to the
Rakhra Mushroom facility in Alamosa, Colorado. We did this last in March
of 1995, and found the visit both enjoyable and informative. Although I
have not set a date yet, I suspect we may go again in March and probably
on a Saturday. I intend to include as part of this trip a visit to the
nearby alligator farm. If any members have suggestions about date or other
logistical matters, please contact
me. I suspect we will want to work out some carpooling arrangements,
and I will do what I can to coördinate that.
Bob Chapman's Talk
Bob Chapman gave a wonderful talk which consisted of two parts. He had
arrived at the meeting with a wheelbarrow full of mushroom books, each of
which he introduced and described lovingly.
Bob then discussed Amanita variations and identification,
illustrated by a nice set of slides.
List of Common Species
Bob Chapman and Ted Stampfer have put together two
lists of mushrooms: 38
gilled and 40
non-gilled. They agreed on these lists for the NMMS
slides of
"local" mushrooms. They request that members view these lists and comment
on possible changes, deletions, or additions. However, if someone wants to
add a species, they need to delete another to keep the total number the
same. We would like these comments by the next meeting. If anyone has
slides which they believe would be suitably representative of any of these
species, please let us know.
Current proposed list of species
History of NMMS Officers
NMMS thanks Pat Brannen for graciously filling in the blanks
on the
club history page.