Another warm Black Friday saw a group of intrepid social distancing mushroom hunters meet at Hartwood acres to see what bargains we could find. With only a couple of days of frosts in the weeks before Black Friday there were high hopes for a wide range of species including some terrestrial gilled mushrooms. The group split with Cara Coulter and some hunters exploring the conifer section of Hartwood Acres to the north of the mansion and the main group visiting “Mushroom Valley” to the south. Meanwhile Judy Mackenroth went for a very socially distanced solo walk and contributed her list to this report.
In 2016 we found a rarely observed Clitocybe cokeri but hadn’t seen it since. This year I’m pleased to announce that we found it again. In the intervening time it has undergone a name change so is now know as Pseudoomphalina cokeri. On iNaturalist there is only one other site in the US where it has been identified we presume it is a more common but overlooked species.
There were quite a few new to the club species. One of them is a mushroom (or mold) that grows on another mushroom. The species is Epicoccum nigrum and it grows on old puffballs and was found and identified by Judy using club mycologists John Plischke III book. We found another mushroom mold growing on the base of a Clavulina coralloides (White Coral Fungus) specimen, Helminthosphaeria clavariarum, it’s also in John’s book. We found a Multiclavula mucida (White Green-algae Coral) specimen in the mushroom valley. It’s an interesting species as it forms a symbiotic relationship with algae although it is not a lichen. Most fungi that form relationships with algae are Ascomycota but Multiclavula mucida is a Basidiomycete. Judy found a related species, Multiclavula corynoides, that is new to the club. It has a club like head rather than a straight club shape. A new to the club mycena species was identified by Cara Coulter, Mycena griseoviridis, along with one that is known. Mycena epipterygia (Yellow-stalked Fairy-helmet). The Mycena epipterygia is quite fun as it was very sticky. Both were in the conifer section of the woods. Cara also found Rhizomarasmius pyrrhocephalus, a marasmius like small mushroom with a dark colored tough and long stem, almost like a rhizomorph. Last of the new species that I am going to mention was Xylodon paradoxus a crust mushroom that at first glance you might think is Irpex lacteus, the Milk-white Toothed Polypore. On closer inspection you can see that it it is actually interesting shaped pores rather than tooth pores of Irpex lacteus, hence the common name Split Porecrust. Another way to differentiate them is that Irpex lacteus tends to have cap-like margins that extend beyond the substrate while Xylodon paradoxus does not.
If you were playing the fall bingo the walk would have been a great way to add to the board. We found 16 of the 25 species in one walk. Sadly you would not have been able to score a bingo.
And of course there was a selection of unidentified species on the table too.
Species list entered by Richard Jacob. Identifications by Cara Coulter, Richard Jacob, Judy Macenroth and others.
List of species found on the walk at Black Friday walk at Hartwood Acres:
( Pear-shaped Puffball ), Apioperdon pyriforme
(Honey Mushroom), Armillaria gallica
(Purple Jelly Drops), Ascocoryne sarcoides
(Yellow Fairy Cups), Bisporella citrina
(Smoky Polypore), Bjerkandera adusta
(Dryad’s Saddle, Pheasant Polypore), Cerioporus squamosus
(Mossy Maze Polypore), Cerrena unicolor
(White Coral Fungus), Clavulina coralloides
(Fragrant Funnel), Clitocybe fragrans
(White-egg Bird’s-nest Fungus), Crucibulum laeve
(), Diatrype stigma
(Brown jelly roll), Exidia crenata
(Beech jelly roll), Exidia glandulosa
(Velvet foot; Enokitake), Flammulina velutipes
(Mustard Yellow Polypore), Fuscoporia gilva
(Deadly galerina), Galerina marginata
(Artist’s Conk), Ganoderma applanatum
(), Ganoderma curtisii
(Soft Artist’s Conk), Ganoderma lobatum
(), Gloeoporus dichrous
(Hen of the Woods / Sheep Head), Grifola frondosa
(), Helminthosphaeria clavariarum
(False Chanterelle), Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca
(Oak Curtain Crust fungus), Hymenochaete rubiginosa
(Brick top), Hypholoma lateritium
(Red Cushion Fungi), Hypoxylon fragiforme
(Resinous Polypore), Ischnoderma resinosum
(Chicken Mushroom; Sulphur Shelf), Laetiporus sulphureus
(Wolf’s Milk Slime), Lycogala epidendrum
(), Merulius tremellosus
(), Multiclavula mucida
(Yellow-stalked Fairy-helmet), Mycena epipterygia
(Blue mycena), Mycena subcaerulea
(Coral Spot Fungus), Nectria cinnabarina
(Hexagonal-pored Polypore), Neofavolus alveolaris
(Luminescent Panellus, bitter oyster), Panellus stipticus
(Giraffe spots), Peniophora albobadia
(Jelly Leaf), Phaeotremella foliacea
(), Phlebia incarnata
(), Phlebia radiata
(Oyster Mushroom), Pleurotus ostreatus
(Crimp gill), Plicaturopsis crispa
(), Pseudoomphalina cokeri
(Cinnabar Red Polypore), Pycnoporus cinnabarinus
(Asian beauty), Radulodon copelandii
(), Radulomyces paumanokensis
(Late Fall Oyster), Sarcomyxa serotina
(), Serpula himantioides
(Crowded Parchment), Stereum complicatum
(False Turkey-tail), Stereum ostrea
(Multicolor Gill Polypore), Trametes betulina
(Lumpy bracket), Trametes gibbosa
(), Trametes hirsuta
(Turkey-tail), Trametes versicolor
(Violet Toothed-Polypore), Trichaptum biforme
(Fringed Tubaria), Tubaria furfuracea
(Dead Man’s Fingers), Xylaria polymorpha
(Ceramic Parchment) Xylobolus frustulatus
Species not currently on clubs life list:
Epicoccum nigrum
Heterobasidion annosum
Multiclavula corynoides
Mycena griseoviridis
Rhizomarasmius pyrrhocephalus
Xylodon paradoxus
Agaricus sp. possibily Agaricus sylvaticus (Blushing Wood Mushroom) but still working on it
Chlorphyllum sp.
Coprinellus sp.
Coprinopsis sp. possibly Coprinopsis lagopus but would have needed microscopic analysis to confirm.
Dacrymyces sp.
Gymnopilus sp.
Pluteus sp.
Postia sp.
Phycomyces sp.
Pictures by Cara Coulter, Richard Jacob, Sara Klingensmith and Judy Macenroth
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