INHS scientist Andrew Miller offers advice on how to forage for morel mushrooms this spring, and how to distinguish them from false morels in this interview with NBC 5 DFW.
Spring mushroom hunting is here: what you need to know
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New Herbarium/Fungarium Collections Manager
We have a new Herbarium/Fungarium Collections Manager! Please contact Jamie Minnaert-Grote for your herbarium/fungarium needs.
New Herbarium Curatorial Assistant
Tiffany Bone began working as the Herbarium Curatorial Assistant for the NSF ADBC LBCC digitization project. She will digitize 100,000 lichen and bryophyte specimens over the next year.
Alan Parker donates gasteromycetes specimens
We received 439 specimens of gasteromycetes from the Alan D. Parker private mycological collection.
Databasing lichens at EIU
Over 4800 lichen specimens at Eastern Illinois University have been databased. The Illinois Natural History Survey Fungarium (ILLS) will acquire the fungal specimens at EIU in 2012.