Surry Garden Club Monthly Meeting - An illustrated presentation by David Porter

By any measure, interest in ‘all things fungal’ among the general public is mushrooming. We want to know more about where mushrooms come from and what they are doing out there. Our increased attention to wild foods is leading us into foraging for edible mushrooms but, at the same time, heightening our caution of poisonous ones. But for all lovers of natural beauty, it is of great pleasure that nature provides a limitless spectrum of colorful and unusual mushrooms to delight the eye and inspire the artist.
In his talk, Porter will lead an illustrated foray through a jungle of mushroom diversity, touching on common edible species and those to avoid while describing how these organisms are critical to the proper functioning of our forest ecosystems.