AUGUSTA, Maine – How much do we really know about those familiar mushrooms sprouting on forest floors? Those ubiquitous capped mushrooms are often of the Amanita family, and the tools of modern molecular biology recently led to an amazing discovery about their evolutionary past. Come to this event, hosted by famed mycologist Britt Bunyard, PhD, to learn more about these fascinating fungi on Saturday, April 13th at 9:30 am at the Lithgow Public Library.
A popular evangelizer on all things fungal, Bunyard has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, PBS’s NOVA and Wisconsin Foodie television programs, and in The Atlantic, Forbes, Saveur, Women’s World, and others. He is the founder, publisher, and editor-in-chief of the mycology journal Fungi. Bunyard has worked academically (and played very amateurishly) as a mycologist his entire career, editing and writing scientifically for many research journals, popular science magazines, guidebooks and books, and is the co-author of The Amanitas of North America, scheduled for publication in 2019.
As with all of Lithgow’s events, this event is free and open to the public.
Lithgow Library is located at 45 Winthrop Street in Augusta. For more information, please call the library at (207) 626-2415 or visit our website at www.lithgowlibrary.org
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