Workdays

…the soil Planting seeds and seedlings Harvesting produce Staking tomatoes and other plants Adding leaf mulch to the beds and wood chips to the pathways Watering and weeding Spraying organic…

Happy Birthday, Psilocybe!

…when ingested metabolizes into psilocin, a potent hallucinogen.2 Prior to shipping the specimens to Utah, Dr. Cotter photographed them for inclusion in our online catalog, mycoportal.org. One specimen (NCU-F-0009757) stood…

Albion Reed Hodgdon

…with the goal of cutting and clearing the timber on a section of their father’s lot. The idea was not to make money, but to increase the value of the…

William Battle Cobb

…specimen labels as “W. B. Cobb.” Most specimens are fungi collected in Orange County, though a handful of vascular plant specimens have been cataloged as well. As more of our…

Arthur Stanley Pease

…the southeast can be searched at sernecportal.org; our fungi collection can be searched at mycoportal.org Pease was a scholar of the classics and a respected amateur botanist. While Pease published…

Arthur Stanley Pease

…be searched at sernecportal.org; our mycological collection can be searched at mycoportal.org Pease was a scholar of the classics and a respected botanist. While Pease published extensively in his field…

Walter Charles Blasdale

and V. F. Lenzen. 2011. Walter Charles Blasdale, Chemistry: Berkeley. The Regents of The University of California http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb2t1nb146;NAAN=13030&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00002&toc.depth=1&toc.id=&brand=calisphere 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Shasta,_California 3. Blasdale, W. C. 1900. A chemical study of the…