Intro to Pacific Northwest Mushrooms

Recordings from all six classes are posted under the Class Recordings link below. I will continue to post more content here throughout the season and events that all course attendees are welcome to attend.

Class Recordings

Mushroom Basics

What are mushrooms
How do they eat and grow
Broad categories

iNaturalist

Ways you can use iNaturalist for identification, learning new mushrooms, their distribution, and seasonality

Safety

Summer Mushrooms

Key Summer Mushrooms

Boletes

Mushrooms with spongy pores on the underside
*with some exceptions

Bolete Taxonomy and Groupings

A brief overview on bolete groupings and their family structure

Interactive Treemap

Explore a treemap to learn more about different groups of boletes

Popular Edible Mushrooms

Mapping Tools

Various mapping websites, applications, and tips for how to use them for mushroom-finding

(Google Maps, Maps.me, Gaia GPS, precipitation, soil temperature, soil moisture)

(In Progress: Avenza, and USGS)

Foraging Areas

A growing list of descriptions for key forested areas around Washington

Fairly Complete: Olympic Peninsula, Kitsap Peninsula, Darrington

Others In Progress

The Most Seriously Toxic Mushrooms

A simple guide on mushrooms containing seriously toxic amatoxins

Books

A short review summarizing some of the popular books in our region

Candy Stick

If you see this plant, remember where you saw it. You might be able to find matsutake here in the future

Pacific Northwest Trees

Includes short summaries for many common PNW trees. Longer page for Cottonwood with more to come