In honour of Halloween, let’s look at something that can make PEI’s trees look decidedly eerie: Old Man’s Beard Lichens ( Usnea  spp.)...

Welcome back to Mushroom Monday, your weekly look at some of PEI’s easy-to-identify fungi. Mushroom identification doesn’t get much...

Welcome back to Ask a Naturalist, your own personal Google for information on all things natural on PEI. I’ve had a few questions about...

Welcome back to Mushroom Monday, your weekly look at some of PEI’s easy-to-identify fungi. Today’s mushroom is large, showy, common, and...

If you’ve attended any of my wild plant workshops, you’ll have heard me say “don’t eat white berries”. While there is one edible, native,...

Welcome back to Mushroom Monday, your weekly look at some of PEI’s easy-to-identify fungi. Today it’s one of our common polypores,...

PEI’s landscape is full of wild fruits right now, but not all are edible. Let’s look at two of the species I’ve been getting a lot of...

Welcome back to Mushroom Monday, your weekly look at some of PEI’s easy-to-identify fungi. Last week we explored the Russula group (aka...

When you hear the words ‘endangered species’, I’m betting animals like Piping Plover and Monarch Butterflies – or maybe Elephants and...

Welcome back to Mushroom Monday, your weekly look at some of PEI’s easy-to-identify fungi. Today it’s not one species, but a group: the...

It’s been a great growing season on PEI, and our fall fruits are showing the result. Wild berries are everywhere right now, including the...

Welcome back to Mushroom Monday, a weekly look at some of PEI’s easy-to-identify fungi. The word ‘mushroom’ usually brings to mind...

Humans think in decades, forests operate in centuries, but the land’s timeframe spans hundreds of millions of years.  We can read...

Welcome back to Mushroom Monday, a weekly look at some of PEI’s beginner-level fungi. Today it’s the distinctive Ornate-stalked Bolete (...

Fall and fresh food go hand in hand. PEI’s backyard gardens are full of vegetables, our farm fields are ready for harvest, and wild fruit...

Welcome back to Mushroom Monday, a weekly look at some of PEI’s easy-to-identify fungi. Today it’s the beautiful Purple-gilled Laccaria...

Of PEI’s roughly 1,500 species of plants, only seven – less than one half of one percent – have no chlorophyll and can’t make food from...

September marks the return of Mushroom Mondays! Let’s start the season with some common, easy-to-identify choice edibles: Meadow...

Welcome back to Ask a Naturalist: your own personal “Google” for information on all things natural on PEI.  Judging by the more than 50...

PEI’s salt marshes are among our most under-appreciated habitats: they’re wet, smelly, buggy, and have few showy,...