A wonderful warm Indian summer day with clear skies and beautiful leaf colors. A medium sized crowd talk a walk at Deer Lakes park in search of mushrooms. Plenty of Disk golf players were out and once they realized we were looking for mushrooms started to give up tips offs to where they had seen some and in one case handed me a giant puffball that they had found. Over 70 species identified including a number of edibles like Honey mushrooms, Blewits, Oysters and Bear’s Head Tooth. There were even a couple of lonely chanterelles that had not realized their season had finished.

Species list entered by La Monte Yarroll. Species identified by Dick Dougall, Richard Jacob, Jim Tunney and La Monte Yarroll.

List of species found on the walk at Deer Lakes Park:
[icon style=”camera”] Agrocybe acericola (Maple Agrocybe),
[icon style=”camera”] Aleuria aurantia (Orange Peel Fungus),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita citrina var citrina (),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita muscaria var. guessowii (),
[icon style=”camera”] Armillaria mellea (Honey Mushroom),
[icon style=”camera”] Ascocoryne sarcoides (Purple Jelly Drops),
[icon style=”camera”] Aureoboletus innixus (Clustered Brown Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Bisporella citrina (Yellow Fairy Cups),
[icon style=”camera”] Bjerkandera adusta (Smoky Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Calvatia gigantea (Giant Puffball),
[icon style=”camera”] Cantharellus lateritius (Smooth chanterelle),
[icon style=”camera”] Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa (Coral Slime),
[icon style=”camera”] Clitocybe clavipes (Fat-footed Clitocybe),
[icon style=”camera”] Clitocybe nuda (Blewit),
[icon style=”camera”] Clitopilus prunulus (Sweetbread Mushroom),
[icon style=”camera”] Cortinarius iodes (),
[icon style=”camera”] Cyclocybe erebia (),
[icon style=”camera”] Daedaleopsis confragosa (Thin-maze Flat Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Entoloma abortivum (Aborted Entoloma),
[icon style=”camera”] Galerina marginata (Deadly galerina),
[icon style=”camera”] Ganoderma applanatum (Artist’s Conk))
[icon style=”camera”] Gymnopus dryophilus (Oak-loving Collybia),
[icon style=”camera”] Gymnopus androsaceus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Hemitrichia calyculata (),
[icon style=”camera”] Hemitrichia serpula (),
[icon style=”camera”] Hericium coralloides (Bear’s Head Tooth),
[icon style=”camera”] Irpex lacteus (Milk-white Toothed-Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Laccaria ochropurpurea (Purple-gilled Laccaria),
[icon style=”camera”] Lacrymaria velutina (Weeping widow),
[icon style=”camera”] Lactarius quietus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Laetiporus sulphureus (Chicken Mushroom; Sulphur Shelf),
[icon style=”camera”] Lentinellus ursinus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Leotia lubrica (Yellow Jelly Babies),
[icon style=”camera”] Lepiota cristata (Malodorous Lepiota),
[icon style=”camera”] Lycogala epidendrum (Wolf’s Milk Slime),
[icon style=”camera”] Lycoperdon perlatum (Gem-studded Puffball),
[icon style=”camera”] Macrolepiota procera (),
[icon style=”camera”] Maramiellus candidus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Morganella pyriformis (Pear-shaped Puffball),
[icon style=”camera”] Mutinus elegans (Elegant Stinkhorn),
[icon style=”camera”] Mycena haematopus (Bleeding Mycena),
[icon style=”camera”] Mycena leaiana (Orange Mycena),
[icon style=”camera”] Neofavolus alveolaris (Hexagonal-pored Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Omphalotus illudens (Jack-o’-lantern),
[icon style=”camera”] Phaeomarasmius erinaceellus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Phellinus gilvus (Mustard Yellow polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Phlebia tremellosa (),
[icon style=”camera”] Pholiota aurivella (),
[icon style=”camera”] Pleurotus ostreatus (Oyster Mushroom),
[icon style=”camera”] Pleurotus pulmonarius (Summer Oyster),
[icon style=”camera”] Pluteus cervinus (Deer mushroom),
[icon style=”camera”] Polyporus badius (Black-footed Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Poria spissa (Orange Poria),
[icon style=”camera”] Psathyrella delineata (),
[icon style=”camera”] Rickenella fibula (Orange Moss Agaric),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula brevipes (),
[icon style=”camera”] Schizophyllum commune (Split Gill),
[icon style=”camera”] Scleroderma citrinum (Pigskin Poison Puffball),
[icon style=”camera”] Scutellinia scutellata (Reddish Eyelash Cup),
[icon style=”camera”] Scutellinia subhirtella (Orange Eyelash Cup),
[icon style=”camera”] Serpula lacrimans (),
[icon style=”camera”] Stereum complicatum (Crowded Parchment),
[icon style=”camera”] Stereum hirsutum (Hairy Parchment),
[icon style=”camera”] Stereum ostrea (False Turkey-tail),
[icon style=”camera”] Tetrapyrgos nigripes (Black-footed Marasmus),
[icon style=”camera”] Trametes elegans (),
[icon style=”camera”] Trametes versicolor (Turkey-tail),
[icon style=”camera”] Tremella foliacea (Jelly Leaf),
[icon style=”camera”] Trichaptum biforme (Violet Toothed-Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Tyromyces chioneus (White Cheese Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Xeromphalina kauffmanii (),
[icon style=”camera”] Xylaria cornu-damae ()

Species not currently on clubs life list:
Collybia “megastipes” is possibly a collybia species with an extra think stem.
Russula species

Pictures by Richard Jacob and Constance Sorgen.