Walk leader Richard Jacob. I don’t think there has been a mushroom walk at Brady’s Run Park before and the group of 20 or so members, new and old, explored a part of the park on a very warm Saturday morning. We started up a steep hill that on to a ridge path to a plateau at the top. We found quite a variety of species considering how dry and hot it has been. Not many specimens were found on the actual ridge path but we could see that the slopes were a very nice mushroom environment with oak and moss covered ground. Quite a few species were collected at the base of the slopes alongside a stream as this area was still quite damp.
Species list entered by Richard Jacob. Identifications by Richard Jacob and La Monte Yarroll.
List of species found on the walk at Brady’s Run Park:
(Blusher), Amanita rubescens
(White Carnival Candy Slime), Arcyria cinerea
(Crown-tipped Coral Fungus), Artomyces pyxidatus
(Red-and-yellow Bolete; Bicolor Bolete), Baorangia bicolor
(Red-Mouth Bolete), Boletus subvelutipes
(Berkeley’s Polypore), Bondarzewia berkeleyi
(Black Jelly Drops), Bulgaria inquinans
(Smooth chanterelle), Cantharellus lateritius
(Coral Slime), Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa
(), Crepidotus applanatus
(Black Trumpet), Craterellus fallax
(Green Cheese Polypore), Fomitopsis spraguei
(Hairy Rubber Cup), Galiella rufa
(Artist’s Conk), Ganoderma applanatum
(Oak-loving Collybia), Gymnopus dryophilus
(Tender Nesting Polypore), Hapalopilus nidulans
(Field Bolete), Hortiboletus campestris
(Bolete Mold), Hypomyces chrysospermus
(), Inonotus dryadeus
(), Lactarius deceptivus
(Chicken Mushroom; Sulphur Shelf), Laetiporus sulphureus
(Multicolor Gill Polypore), Lenzites betulina
(Wolf’s Milk Slime), Lycogala epidendrum
(), Marasmius opacus
(Platterful mushroom), Megacollybia rodmani
(Black-staining Polypore), Meripilus sumstinei
(Luminescent Panellus, bitter oyster), Panellus stipticus
(Deer mushroom), Pluteus cervinus
(), Polyporus mori
(Elegant polypore), Polyporus varius
(Purple-bloom Russula), Russula mariae
(Dry Woods Russula), Russula silvicola
(Split Gill), Schizophyllum commune
(Pigskin Poison Puffball), Scleroderma citrinum
(Reddish Eyelash Cup), Scutellinia scutellata
(Cauliflower Mushroom), Sparassis americana
(False Turkey-tail), Stereum ostrea
(Black-footed Marasmus), Tetrapyrgos nigripes
(), Trametes elegans
(Turkey-tail), Trametes versicolor
(Bitter Bolete), Tylopilus felleus
(White Cheese Polypore) Tyromyces chioneus
We also found Honey mushroom rhizomorphs.
Pictures by Richard Jacob
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