Vancouver Mycological Society

4th Annual Spring Mushroom Celebration
2025-06-01 10:00 - 17:00 (America/Vancouver) | The Usual: VanDusen, Floral Hall, 5151 Oak St, Vancouver, BC, V6M 4H1, Canada
It’s another year of hosting our annual spring mushroom celebration and we couldn’t be more excited to be showing off more of Vancouver’s fungal offerings! This year, we are switching things up to offer more interactive and engaging workshops and presentations, including cooking demos, dyes, talks from experts, and cultivation. We hope that the day will have something for everybody! Come by Floral hall to peruse the range of fungal specimens that grow in and around Vancouver, get answers and assistance with your pressing mushroom-related curiosities, and visit with vendors selling merch and mushrooms alike.

Hours: 10am to 5pm, June 1st 2025

Entry fee: $5, kids under 12 free

Venue is wheelchair accessible

A reminder that this event is held in Floral Hall, and admission is not associated with the nearby VanDusen Botanical Gardens – though their spring blooms are probably worth their own visit!

This event is held on Ancestral, Traditional, and Unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

Monthly Meeting: Fungal Collections of the UBC Herbarium
2025-06-10
Greetings VMS! And a big welcome to our new members from the Spring festival..
Apologies for the late announcement this month, I promise this one is worth the wait!
Fungal collections at the UBC Herbarium: Overview and recent developments
Presentation by Justin Ngo
7pm Tuesday, June 10th @ Floral Hall (5251 Oak St.)
Justin Ngo is one of two Curatorial Assistants under Karen Golinski at the Bryophyte, Lichens, and Fungi Collections at the UBC Herbarium, located in the Beaty Biodiversity Museum. He graduated from UBC with a Bachelor of Science studying predominantly plant biology, though many of the courses he has taken as an undergraduate student have touched upon the immense physiological and molecular complexity of the fungi. Having worked at the UBC Botanical Garden and the Temporal Ecology Lab in Forestry before beginning this position, he has had experience in handling delicate botanical material and managing large databases.
The UBC Herbarium in the Beaty Biodiversity Museum holds more than 91 thousand accessioned dried fungus and lichen specimens, serving as a key resource for fungal and lichenological research, university education and public outreach. The two collections, which emphasize B.C. specimens, are housed in 90 specially-designed cabinets in a unique, publicly-accessible space. Specimen cabinets are punctuated by stunning displays, including shadowboxes illustrating a species of Cortinarius named for Oluna Ceska, and an artful presentation of the Sherman Brough lichen-dyed wool collection.
UBC is part of a global effort to increase the visibility and usability of herbarium collections by making data and images available online through publicly-accessible data portals. We deeply appreciate the pioneering efforts of Dr. R.F. Scagel, who initiated the process of recording UBC specimen metadata in 1981. With the assistance of student and community volunteers, we have made substantial progress in processing a large backlog of specimens. Soon, with the help from mycological community members, we will start uniting specimen records with images from the Mushroom Observer and other sources to further facilitate biodiversity discovery and appreciation.
Doors at 7, Talk at 7:30
As always, we would love to see your specimens at our monthly mushroom table for identification and admiration. Be sure to check out what unique Spring finds are at the May display.

Love the talk? Your VMS membership allows you to access an archive of several past talks on our website for your marathoning pleasure. As always, masks are encouraged in indoor spaces and for all in-person events!

VMS is still hybrid and we would love to see you virtually if you can’t make it in person! You can join us live through Zoom and there will be a Zoom recording in our members’ archive:
Topic: June Meeting
Time: Jun 10, 2025 07:30 PM Vancouver
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86901348247?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 869 0134 8247
Passcode: [REDACTED]
