Topics will include:

• interesting finds this April
• a recent incident of the house-eating fungus (Meruliporia incrassata) in Orange County
• fungal form, repeated evolution, and the time-bound nature of living systems

Free educational resources:

• Pictorial key for identifying fungi. "The Wheels" from Fungi of Temperate Europe (Laessoe and Petersen, 2019)
• Collecting and documenting macrofungi for identification and scientific study (LAMS Spore Print, February 2023)
• Spanish-language introduction to fungi by Sneha Ganguly
• The Fungi of California
• MushroomExpert.com

Rudy Diaz
Resident Mycologist,
Los Angeles Mycological Society