
Join us for a pop-up walk in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Saturday January 27th! Please note that we are meeting at a different location than usual. For this walk we will be joined by members of the NYC Nature Drawing Club, who will collect specimens for their meetup at Open Source Gallery. Unfortunately, enrollment for that meetup is at capacity, but stay tuned for future events by this lively club.
Bring lunch, water and paper bags for collecting specimens. Bring your hand lens, a knife, a tackle box, and your keen senses.
We highly recommend using the iNaturalist app (IOS, Android) to document the fungi you find. Find out how to use it here.
If you’ve never been on a mushroom walk with us before, here is what to expect.
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We look forward to seeing you on Saturday!
Are there any mushrooms when it’s cold outside?
We will not encounter the abundance of fleshy mushrooms that we normally do during the summer and fall. However, there will be plenty of wood decomposers like jellies, basidiomycete crusts, ascomycetes, and polypores, in addition to some gilled fungi that prefer the cold weather. (Be sure to ask your walk leader about fungi that make their own antifreeze).
Members are encouraged to lead pop-up walks!
If you are interested in leading or co-leading a pop-up walk please respond to this email. No taxonomic knowledge is required. The only prerequisite is familiarity with the club’s walk route in a specific park.