Cool Plants and their Fungal Friends

Monotropa hypopithys, a mycoheterotroph (Source: wnps.org)

Check out this upcoming presentation by Andy MacKinnon… 

Plants are fascinating; fungi are fascinating. But for sheer entertainment value, it’s difficult to beat plants plus fungi!

Fungi have been associated with plants since the earliest plants colonized land, and are requisite partners of almost all of our familiar Pacific Northwest plants. Join Andy in this exploration of the fruitful union of two of his favorite Kingdoms. The photo above is of

Saturday, February 27; 1:00 pm
San Juan Island Grange, 152 1st Street, Friday Harbor, WA
Sponsored by the San Juan Islands Chapter of the Washington Native Plant Society
(Presentation preceded by annual business meeting at 12:00 which is open to the public)

About the speaker: Andy MacKinnon is a forest ecologist who lives in Metchosin BC. Until his retirement in 2015, he worked for the BC Forest Service for three decades, mostly on BC’s coast, where he was responsible for ecosystem classification and mapping and a program of forest ecology research focused on old growth structure and composition, effects of climate change, and BC’s native plants and fungi. Andy has also been involved in defining and implementing ecosystem-based management in Haida Gwaii and BC’s Central Coast (the ‘Great Bear Rainforest’). He has co-taught rainforest ecology field courses in Bamfield (for the University of Victoria) and Haida Gwaii (for UBC). Andy is co-author of six best-selling books about plants of western North America including the popular field guide: Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast. He’s an Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University, and a Professional Forester and Professional Biologist in BC.

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