Alan Rockefeller - Mushrooms of Mexico, Feb 19, 2014 (by )
This month Alan Rockefeller was our speaker Presenting the Mushrooms of Mexico 2013, showing the best of 50 gigs of photos taken during this summer's travels. There will be photos of edible, poisonous and hallucinogenic mushrooms, mushroom hunters and fungus fairs from southern Mexico. If you've followed Alan's accounts on the FFSC Google group, you'll surely want to attend this talk.
Alan is a mycologist studying the mushrooms of California and Mexico.H e has been focusing on the taxonomy and photography of Mexican mushrooms for the past seven years. Alan recently returned from five months of collecting in Mexico with extensive field work in the states of Jalisco, Colima, Michoacan, District Federal, Morelos, Puebla, Veracruz and Oaxaca. When he is not photographing mushrooms he is busy sequencing fungal DNA, photographing the microscopic features of mushrooms, hacking computers, modifying electronics and working in the IT Security field...
Recorded on behalf of the Santa Cruz Fungus Federation by Justin Pierce