Meet at 7:00 pm, room 115, Science Building (Building 16) at Lane Community College in Eugene.

Our June speaker is Leon Shernoff, editor of Mushroom, the Journal who will give a talk about Boletes entitled “Boletes come of age”

Once upon a time, all gilled mushrooms were placed in the genus Agaricus. Back then, all pored mushrooms were also placed in the genus Boletus. While Agaricus has long since been split into hundreds of smaller groups, the boletes have only had a few genera broken off. But mycologists have been getting better at defining the species in small groups of mushrooms that were previously considered “complexes” — the honey mushrooms and the chicken mushrooms, for example. Come and learn what some of those small groups in the boletes are, and why some of them are now being recognized as new genera. As with the honey and chicken mushrooms, these new distinctions help us do better in our determinations of mushroom identity and edibility.