Come along and develop your mushroom identification skills! We will provide the fungi, but you can bring yours too!

Do you want to learn how to identify mushrooms and trees and/or share your ID skills with others? Then this event is for you.

With the mushroom season in full swing, we are holding a mushroom identification session. South London Mushroom Club members have gone on a forage and collected lots of mushrooms, and we brought them back to London. If you have any mushrooms you'd like to identify, please bring them along. In this session, we will look at how to identify mushrooms and try to identify as many of the collected mushrooms as possible.

Mushroom identification can initially seem overwhelming due to the sheer variety of mushroom species. We will learn which features to look for and compare the collected specimens with field guides and mushroom identification books. We'll look at how to distinguish different fungi families, genera and species.

Hopefully, we'll also cover beginner-friendly species such as chanterelles, penny buns, bay boletes, amethyst deceivers, hedgehog fungus, or winter chanterelles to help you on your mushroom foraging journey.

All levels of experience and knowledge regarding fungi are welcome. In fact, everyone is welcome. The South London Mushroom Club Events are donation-based and you can give as much as you can afford.

The suggested donation is £10 to support the mushroom club; £5 to cover the costs of room hire, refreshments and snacks; and less if you cannot afford either of those.

Adi and Henry Setter

Core Group

South London Mushroom Club

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