The annual Dorothy Fornof Foray at Deer Lakes park was held in July instead of the normal June this year. It is often one of the first walks where we see chanterelles and black trumpets. When the weather has been accommodating we can also find a lot of bolete, amanita and russula species. Technically I can say that we did see some chanterelles and black trumpets but it was pretty much in the singular range. There were plenty of other species in the area to keep our interest including a very nice Pleurotus levis (veiled oyster) specimen and the less frequently observed Hemistropharia albocrenulata that had us puzzled at the identification table.

We typically meet before the walk at the second car park on Kurn Rd and then drive to the third lake on Cattail Dr. Unfortunately we missed a few late arrivals who ended up walking in different locations. Next year we’ll try meeting at the destination car park instead and see how that works out. If we missed you I apologize. I have added some of the species that the other walkers found and posted to iNaturalist to the species list as there were some nice finds.

Species identified by Barbora Batokova, Robert Bosiljevac, Richard Jacob, Mike Henry and Dawn Wehman. Species list entered by Richard Jacob.

Fungi:
[icon style=”camera”] Abortiporus biennis (),
[icon style=”camera”] Allodus podophylli (Mayapple Rust),
[icon style=”camera”] Artomyces pyxidatus (Crown-tipped Coral Fungus),
[icon style=”camera”] Aureoboletus auriporus (Sour Gold-Pored Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Aureoboletus innixus (Clustered Brown Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Bondarzewia berkeleyi (Berkeley’s Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Boletus subluridellus (Red Mouth Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Caloboletus inedulis (),
[icon style=”camera”] Cantharellus flavolateritius (),
[icon style=”camera”] Craterellus fallax (Black Trumpet),
[icon style=”camera”] Crepidotus applanatus (Flat Crep),
[icon style=”camera”] Crepidotus mollis (Jelly Crep/Soft Stumpfoot),
[icon style=”camera”] Exidia crenata (Brown jelly roll),
[icon style=”camera”] Galiella rufa (Hairy Rubber Cup),
[icon style=”camera”] Ganoderma curtisii (),
[icon style=”camera”] Gerronema strombodes (The Golden-gilled Gerronema),
[icon style=”camera”] Hemistropharia albocrenulata (),
[icon style=”camera”] Hortiboletus campestris (Field Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Hypomyces chrysospermus (Bolete Mould),
[icon style=”camera”] Infundibulicybe gibba (Common Funnel),
[icon style=”camera”] Lactifluus volemus (Fishy Milkcap),
[icon style=”camera”] Laetiporus cincinnatus (White-Pored Chicken of the Woods ),
[icon style=”camera”] Leccinum rugosiceps (Wrinkled Scaber-Stalk),
[icon style=”camera”] Lycogala epidendrum (Wolf’s Milk Slime),
[icon style=”camera”] Marasmius rotula (Collared Parachute),
[icon style=”camera”] Marasmius siccus (Orange Pinwheel),
[icon style=”camera”] Marasmius sullivantii (),
[icon style=”camera”] Megacollybia rodmanii (Eastern American Platterful Mushroom)
[icon style=”camera”] Neofavolus alveolaris (Hexagonal-pored Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Pleurotus levis (),
[icon style=”camera”] Pleurotus pulmonarius (Summer Oyster),
[icon style=”camera”] Pluteus cervinus (Deer mushroom),
[icon style=”camera”] Radulomyces copelandii (Asian beauty),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula crustosa (Green Quilt Russula),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula mariae (Purple-bloom Russula),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula parvovirescens (Blue-green Cracking Russula),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula subsulphurea (),
[icon style=”camera”] Schizophyllum commune (Split Gill),
[icon style=”camera”] Scleroderma cepa (),
[icon style=”camera”] Simocybe centunculus (Dingy Twiglet),
[icon style=”camera”] Stereum complicatum (Crowded Parchment),
[icon style=”camera”] Stereum lobatum (),
[icon style=”camera”] Tetrapyrgos nigripes (Black-footed Marasmus),
[icon style=”camera”] Trametes versicolor (Turkey-tail),
[icon style=”camera”] Tyromyces chioneus (White Cheese Polypore)

Species missing from list:
Amanita Sect. Roanokenses (A. subcokeri or daucipes)
Amanita Sect. Amidella
Scutellinia sp.
Inocybacea (anise aroma)
Russula sp – multiple
Antrodia sp