Fabulous weather for a walk through the cathedral area of Cook Forest State park surrounded by towering Hemlock trees. A huge range of species were found and identified on this walk with many making their way to the display tables at the Lincoff Memorial foray in North Park the next day or selected for DNA barcoding. Amazingly 26 species new to the club were identified by club mycologists and identifiers. The area is so diverse with fungi that there were still unidentified species on the tables at the end of the day. Walk leader Garrett Taylor also led some smaller expeditions in the afternoon to other areas in the park to pick up a few more species not found in the Hemlock groves.

Species list entered by Richard Jacob. Species identified by Richard Jacob, Judy Mackenroth, John Plischke III, Walt Sturgeon, Garrett Taylor, La Monte Yarroll and others.

List of species found on the walk at Cook Forest State Park:
[icon style=”camera”] Abortiporus biennis (),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita abrupta (),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita amerifulva (American Orange-Brown Ringless Amanita),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita amerirubescens (Blusher),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita bisporigera (Destroying Angel),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita brunnescens (Cream Colored Cleft-foot Amanita),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita ceciliae (Strangulated Amanita),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita citrina f. lavendula (),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita farinosa (Powder Cap Amanita),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita flavoconia (Yellow Patches),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita rhacopus (Shaggy Sister Ringless Amanita),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita submaculata (),
[icon style=”camera”] Aureoboletus innixus (Clustered Brown Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Austroboletus gracilis (Graceful Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Baeospora myosura (Conifer Cone Baeospora),
[icon style=”camera”] Bisporella citrina (Yellow Fairy Cups),
[icon style=”camera”] Boletus pallidus (Pallid Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Butyriboletus brunneus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Calocera cornea (Yellow tuning fork),
[icon style=”camera”] Calostoma cinnabarina (Stalked Puffball in Aspic),
[icon style=”camera”] Cantharellus lateritius (),
[icon style=”camera”] Cantharellus minor (Small Chanterelle),
[icon style=”camera”] Cantharellus tenuithrix (American Common Chanterelle; American Golden Chanterelle),
[icon style=”camera”] Cantharellus tubaeformis (),
[icon style=”camera”] Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa (Coral Slime),
[icon style=”camera”] Chlorociboria aeruginascens (Blue-green Stain),
[icon style=”camera”] Chlorophyllum molybdites (Green-spored Lepiota),
[icon style=”camera”] Clavulina cristata (Crested Coral Fungus),
[icon style=”camera”] Clavulinopsis aurantiocinnabarina (Spindle Shaped Orange Coral),
[icon style=”camera”] Collybia familia (),
[icon style=”camera”] Collybia tuberosa (Tuberous Collybia),
[icon style=”camera”] Coprinellus micaceus (Mica Cap),
[icon style=”camera”] Cordyceps militaris (Trooping Cordyceps),
[icon style=”camera”] Cordyceps ophioglossoides (),
[icon style=”camera”] Cortinarius armillatus (Bracelet Cort / Red Banded Cort),
[icon style=”camera”] Cortinarius corrugatus (Corrugated Cap Cort),
[icon style=”camera”] Cortinarius harrisonii (),
[icon style=”camera”] Cortinarius iodes (Iodine Cort / Viscid Violet Cort),
[icon style=”camera”] Cortinarius semisanguineus (Red-gilled Cort),
[icon style=”camera”] Craterellus fallax (),
[icon style=”camera”] Craterellus ignicolor (Flame-colored Chanterelle),
[icon style=”camera”] Cuphophyllus pratensis (),
[icon style=”camera”] Dacrymyces chrysospermus (Orange Jelly; Witches’ Butter),
[icon style=”camera”] Dacryopinax spathularia (Spathula Shapped Yellow Jelly),
[icon style=”camera”] Daedalea quercina (Thick-maze Oak Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Daedaleopsis confragosa (Thin-maze Flat Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Elaphomyces granulatus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Fomitopsis pinicola (Red Bealted Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Fomitopsis spraguei (Green Cheese Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Ganoderma applanatum (Artist’s Conk),
[icon style=”camera”] Ganoderma curtisii (),
[icon style=”camera”] Ganoderma tsugae (Hemlock Varnish-shelf),
[icon style=”camera”] Gymnopus dryophilus (Oak-loving Collybia),
[icon style=”camera”] Gymnopus subnudus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Gyroporus castaneus (Chestnut Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Helminthosphaeria clavariarum (),
[icon style=”camera”] Helvella crispa (White Saddle),
[icon style=”camera”] Helvella elastica (),
[icon style=”camera”] Helvella macropus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Hydnellum scrobiculatum (),
[icon style=”camera”] Hydnum repandum (Sweet Tooth Hedgehog Fungus),
[icon style=”camera”] Hydropus fuliginarius (),
[icon style=”camera”] Hygrophorus marginatus (Orange-gilled Waxy-cap),
[icon style=”camera”] Hygrophorus miniatus (Fading Scarlet Waxy-cap),
[icon style=”camera”] Hypholoma capnoides (),
[icon style=”camera”] Hypocrea pulvinata (Polypore hypocrea),
[icon style=”camera”] Hypocrea sulphurea (),
[icon style=”camera”] Hypomyces armeniacus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Hypomyces cervinigenus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Hypomyces polyporinus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Hypoxylon fragiforme (Red Cushion Fungi),
[icon style=”camera”] Irpex lacteus (Milk-white Toothed-Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Ischnoderma benzoinum (),
[icon style=”camera”] Laccaria laccata (Common Laccaria; Deceiver Laccaria),
[icon style=”camera”] Lactarius chrysorrheus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Lactarius cinereus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Lactarius corrugis (Corrugated-cap Milky),
[icon style=”camera”] Lactarius hygrophoroides (Hygrophorus Milky),
[icon style=”camera”] Lactarius lignyotus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Lactarius vinaceorufescens (Yellow Latex Milky),
[icon style=”camera”] Lactifluus volemus (Fishy Milkcap),
[icon style=”camera”] Leccinum longicurvipes (),
[icon style=”camera”] Lentinellus ursinus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Leotia atrovirens (Green-headed Jelly Club),
[icon style=”camera”] Leotia lubrica (Yellow Jelly Babies),
[icon style=”camera”] Lycoperdon curtisii (),
[icon style=”camera”] Lycoperdon perlatum (Gem-studded Puffball),
[icon style=”camera”] Marasmius opacus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Marasmius scorodonius (Garlic Mushroom),
[icon style=”camera”] Morganella pyriformis (Pear-shaped Puffball),
[icon style=”camera”] Multiclavula mucida (),
[icon style=”camera”] Mycena leaiana (Orange Mycena),
[icon style=”camera”] Panellus stipticus (Luminescent Panellus, bitter oyster),
[icon style=”camera”] Phaeohelotium epiphyllum (),
[icon style=”camera”] Phaeolus schweinitzii (Dyer’s pollypore or velvet-top fungus),
[icon style=”camera”] Phallus ravenelii (Ravenel’s stinkhorn),
[icon style=”camera”] Pholiota squarrosoides (),
[icon style=”camera”] Phyllotopsis nidulans (Mock Oyster),
[icon style=”camera”] Physarum polycephalum (Many-headed slime mold),
[icon style=”camera”] Piptoporus betulinus (Birch Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Pseudoboletus parasiticus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Pseudohydnum gelatinosum (),
[icon style=”camera”] Ramaria stricta (),
[icon style=”camera”] Ramariopsis kunzei (),
[icon style=”camera”] Rickenella fibula (Orange Moss Agaric),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula aeruginea (),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula compacta (Firm Russula),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula dissimulans (Blushing russula ),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula laurocerasi (Almond Scented Russula),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula mariae (),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula peckii (),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula variata (Variegated Russula),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula vinacea (),
[icon style=”camera”] Scleroderma citrinum (Pigskin Poison Puffball),
[icon style=”camera”] Scutellinia scutellata (Reddish Eyelash Cup),
[icon style=”camera”] Sebacina schweinitzii (Jellied False Coral),
[icon style=”camera”] Serpula himantioides (),
[icon style=”camera”] Sparassis spathulata (),
[icon style=”camera”] Stemonitis splendens (Chocolate Tube Slime),
[icon style=”camera”] Suillus granulatus (Dotted-stalk Suillus; Granulated Slippery Jack),
[icon style=”camera”] Suillus spraguei (Painted Suillus),
[icon style=”camera”] Syzygites megalocarpus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Tapinella atrotomentosa (Velvet-footed Pax),
[icon style=”camera”] Thelephora terrestris (),
[icon style=”camera”] Thuemenella cubispora (),
[icon style=”camera”] Trametes versicolor (Turkey-tail),
[icon style=”camera”] Tricholomopsis sulfureoides (),
[icon style=”camera”] Tubifera ferruginosa (Raspberry slime mold),
[icon style=”camera”] Tylopilus felleus (Bitter Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Tylopilus rubrobrunneus (Reddish-Brown Bitter Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Tyromyces chioneus (White Cheese Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Tyromyces fragilis (),
[icon style=”camera”] Xanthoconium affine (Spotted Bolete)
[icon style=”camera”] Xeromphalina campanella (Fuzzy-foot),
[icon style=”camera”] Xerula furfuracea (Rooted Collybia),
[icon style=”camera”] Xylaria cornu-damae ()

Species not currently on clubs life list:
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita kryorhodon (),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita rooseveltensis (),
[icon style=”camera”] Boletopsis grisea (),
[icon style=”camera”] Boletus miniato-pallescens (),
[icon style=”camera”] Chromelosporium fulvum (),
[icon style=”camera”] Clavaria cristata var. laciniata (),
[icon style=”camera”] Clavulina ornatipes (),
[icon style=”camera”] Cortinarius collinitus (), or [icon style=”camera”] Cortinarius mucosus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Cortinarius pulchrifolius var. odorifer (),
[icon style=”camera”] Cortinarius squamulosus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Coryne atrovirens (),
[icon style=”camera”] Fomitopsis ochracea (),
[icon style=”camera”] Guepinia helvelloides (),
[icon style=”camera”] Holwaya mucida (),
[icon style=”camera”] Isaria tenuipes (),
[icon style=”camera”] Lactarius atroviridis (),
[icon style=”camera”] Lactarius nitidus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Laetiporus huroniensis (),
[icon style=”camera”] Lycoperdon curtisii (),
[icon style=”camera”] Postia fragilis (),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula ochroleucoides (),
[icon style=”camera”] Sebacina concrescens (),
[icon style=”camera”] Singerocybe adirondackensis (),
[icon style=”camera”] Symphytocarpus trechisporus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Tricholoma sublvrem (),
[icon style=”camera”] Tricholoma subsejunctum (),

Comments:
Cladonia cristatella, commonly known as the British soldiers lichen