Meetings
2025 Meeting Updates
- Meetings are now in the Sturm Auditorium, in the Freyer – Newman Center (FNC)
- All entry and exit for after hours plant society meetings will now go through the Freyer – Newman Center main entrance. The Pinon Gate will be closed no matter the location of your meeting.
- After entering through the main gate, the Freyer-Newman Center front doors will be unlocked from 7:10PM to 7:50PM
- If you arrive before/after the doors are unlocked, you can have someone from the inside let you in
CMS meetings are open to the public. They begin at 7 pm with a half hour in which members may bring in mushrooms to “show and tell,” or ones they want identified by CMS members who are experts. The evening’s program begins between 7:15 and 7:30, usually featuring an illustrated talk by a mycologist or a recognized authority in another field. The meeting ends at approximately 9pm.
Upcoming Meetings
Annual Cook & Taste!
Annual CMS Cook & Taste Potluck! Location: Denver Botanic Gardens: Mitchell Hall After 7PM enter via Piñon Gate (to the right of main entrance) 7:00 [...]
Dr. Robert Blanchette
Dr. Robert Blanchette is a mycologist and plant pathologist whose groundbreaking work has reshaped how we understand fungi's role in forest ecosystems. Speaker Bio: Dr. [...]
Recent Meeting Recordings
Alan Rockefeller - High Tech Tools for Modern Mycology
Tradd Cotter: Mushrooms, Molds, and Mycorrhizae: The Amazing Kingdom of Fungi
Michael Beug: Fantastic Fungi to Save Body, Mind, Spirit, and the Planet
Jess Loeffler: The fungi that feed plants
Larry Evans - Mushrooms of the Bolivian Rainforest