Annual Mushroom Fair
Join visiting fungi expert, Vera Evenson, Curator at the Sam Mitchel Herbarium of Fungi, Denver Botanic Gardens, for an ACES Annual Mushroom Fair! Learn all you ever wanted to know about mushrooms - a wide variety of specimens will be exhibited, identified and examined up close. Come prepared to look at various mushrooms under a microscope, make spore prints, learn about their intricate ways and how important they are to the whole ecosystem. Come to ACES for a fun filled afternoon learning about mushrooms - you're welcome to bring your own mushrooms to share and learn about, not to mention you'll get to discuss which ones are the choice edible varieties!
Date: July 30, 2016 1:00 PM-4:00 PM
Location: Hallam Lake | 100 Puppy Smith Street, Aspen | 970.925.5756
Event website: aspennature.org
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