The National Botanic Garden of Wales is to host Wales’ first Fungus Day on

Sunday 14th October 2012

11am – 12pm. Meet the Waxcaps. A walk to an internationally important waxcap-rich meadow on Waun Las NNR. Meet Bruce Langridge at the Great Glasshouse western entrance. The meadows are likely to be wet or even boggy in places so you might want to wear waterproof footwear.

12.30 – 1.15pm. Wood-rotting Fungi – a short walk to look at how a fungus rots a tree. Meet Tudor Davies at the Great Glasshouse western entrance.

1– 2pm & 2.45 – 3.30pm. Fungi books display. Venue Theatr Boatnica

- 2.45pm. Professor Lynne Boddy will give the inaugural Wales Fungus Day Lecture on ‘What We Don’t Know About Fungi’. Venue: Theatr Botanica

3.30 – 4.30pm. Fairy Ring Frolics – a walk to the Garden’s fungal hotspots uncovering mythological and scientific secrets of fairy rings. Meet Bruce Langridge & Tudor Davies at the Great Glasshouse western entrance.

11.30am – 3pm. Marvellous Mushroom Menu including slippery jack, oyster, jelly ear and field mushrooms, and mushroom cupcakes. Venue: Seasons Restaurant

12 -2pm. Live shiitake cooking and tasting with Maesyffin Mushrooms. Venue: Great Glasshouse Stage

11am – 4pm. Family activities run by the British Mycological Society including microscopes & balloons. Venue: Great Glasshouse

11am – 4pm. Woodturning fungi demonstration with Les Bryan. Venue: Great Glasshouse

All Day – From Another Kingdom, the UK’s first major exhibition on fungi that is on tour from Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Venue: Great Glasshouse

10am – 4.30pm. A fungus recording blitz around the Garden and its adjoining Waun Las NNR. If you’d like to take part, contact Bruce Langridge (details below)

For more information, contact Bruce Langridge on bruce.langridge@gardenofwales.org.uk or phone Bruce on 01558 667162.

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Linked to Wales Fungus Day, there will be a nationwide search for Wales’ largest fairy ring. The Welsh public will be asked to look for, measure, photograph and possibly identify the biggest fairy ring on their patch in the weeks leading up to Wales Fungus Day.  A rolling record of these finds will be viewable on our Fairy Ring page.