Puget Sound Mycological Society General Meeting Speaker Heather Dawson on "Truffles, truffles, truffles: Celebrating their Diversity" 3501 NE 41st St, Seattle, WA, USA & Online https://www.psms.org We are rapidly approaching Truffle season here in the Pacific Northwest, and our January speaker Heather Dawson is a PhD candidate at the University of Oregon studying Truffles. With her dog Rye, Heather not only searches for the edible truffles in the forest - but she is also endeavoring to get a handle on truffle diversity in our region. Now more than ever, truffles are gaining in popularity. Our Oregon white and black truffles are highly sought after for their culinary value. But the Pacific Northwest is a hotspot of truffle biodiversity, and home to over 350 species of NON-culinary truffles. Heather spends much of her time in the woods looking for hypogeous fungi with her truffle dogs - not just the edible ones - but the non-culinary ones as well. Their diversity might surprise you. So, please join us Tuesday evening, January 14th, 7:30 pm at the Center for Urban Horticulture / University of Washington - to hear more about Heathers exciting research and the diversity of hypogeous fungi (truffles) in our area." This meeting is both in person & virtual (Zoom) and is free and open to the public! Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/98938057877?pwd=FLrSlhtOgVPg7FnIM6C3wV1rbUGbii.1#success
