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Please join us this Sunday, September 4th, from 11am to 4:30pm at the Chicago Botanic Garden for the annual Illinois Mycological Association Show. We will be celebrating the richness of fall mushrooms in Illinois with an exhibit of 50 to 100 varieties of mushrooms on display. Come discuss them and have your questions answered by our experts.
We are proud to present two exciting speaker to this years show. Renown mycological educator, Dr. Tom Volk (Univ. of Wisconsin-La Crosse) will be speaking on the subjects of "Toads and Toadstools: what old wives (and old husbands) have to tell us about mushrooms" and "Superheroes of the fungal world" at 1pm and 3pm. Also the author of Illinois Mushrooms, Joe McFarland, will talk about "Fungi in the
Ancient World: How mushrooms changed civilization".
There will be A children's education area and mushrooms books and t-shirts will be for sale at the show. Please come and join us to learn more about how mushrooms and fungi are important to your life!
Andrew Wilson
IMA President
Please join us this Sunday, September 4th, from 11am to 4:30pm at the Chicago Botanic Garden for the annual Illinois Mycological Association Show. We will be celebrating the richness of fall mushrooms in Illinois with an exhibit of 50 to 100 varieties of mushrooms on display. Come discuss them and have your questions answered by our experts.
We are proud to present two exciting speaker to this years show. Renown mycological educator, Dr. Tom Volk (Univ. of Wisconsin-La Crosse) will be speaking on the subjects of "Toads and Toadstools: what old wives (and old husbands) have to tell us about mushrooms" and "Superheroes of the fungal world" at 1pm and 3pm. Also the author of Illinois Mushrooms, Joe McFarland, will talk about "Fungi in the
Ancient World: How mushrooms changed civilization".
There will be A children's education area and mushrooms books and t-shirts will be for sale at the show. Please come and join us to learn more about how mushrooms and fungi are important to your life!
Andrew Wilson
IMA President
In the future, this site will feature:
- the Top Ten questions people ask us about fungi
- our club’s calendar of events, showing our monthly meetings, club dinners, and group forays (in the member section)
- a key to the mushrooms of the Chicago area
- our database of historical biographies of mycologists
- a glossary of mycological terms
