Tilden Fungus Fair 2020

David Rust of Bay Area Mycological Society helps the public identify mushrooms.

The 2020 mushroom season has so far been sort of whimper due to a cold dry start. A little bit of punctuated rain at the end of December at least brought on the saprophytic fungi, but it seems some of mycorrhizals might just sit this year out, which made it a very interesting year for the Tilden Fungus Fair. Collections came in from multiple sources and some how lasted the expanded two days, although some specimens became better insect observational piles by the last day.

This is still one of the best Free fungi fairs of the bay area, because the general public can get up close and personal with a large diversity of fungi and have experts around the tables to ask questions of.

Some of the table full of mushrooms at the Tilden Fungus Fair

lots of people got the chance to get hands on with many of our local mushrooms

Ranger Trent Pearce does his best to keep a tally of what mushrooms have come into the fair