Over 80 people attended the first spring walk with the WPMC at Hartwood Acres in Allegheny County. Despite rain in the forecast, conditions were mostly dry and temperatures were mild. Forty species of fungi — mostly comprised of polypores, crust fungi, and a few jelly mushrooms — were collected and displayed at the end of the walk.
Species identified by Garrett Taylor, John Plischke III, John Stuart, Jim Tunney, La Monte Yarroll, Adam Haritan, and others.
Photograph by Kim Plischke. Species list entered by Adam Haritan.
List of species found on the walk at Hartwood Acres:
(), Akanthomyces aculeatus
(Smoky Polypore), Bjerkandera adusta
(Tumbling Puffball), Bovista pila
(Thin-maze Flat Polypore), Daedaleopsis confragosa
(Beech Jelly Roll), Exidia glandulosa
(Brown jelly roll), Exidia recisa
(Artist’s Conk), Ganoderma applanatum
(Yellow-red Gill Polypore), Gloeophyllum sepiarium
(), Hydnochaete olivaceus
(Northern Brown Crust), Hymenochaete tabacina
(Milk-white Toothed-Polypore), Irpex lacteus
(Resinous Polypore), Ischnoderma resinosum
(Chicken Mushroom; Sulphur Shelf), Laetiporus sulphureus
(AKA Morganella pyriformis), Lycoperdon pyriforme
(Crystal Brain), Myxarium nucleatum
(Hexagonal-pored Polypore), Neofavolus alveolaris
(Luminescent Panellus, bitter oyster), Panellus stipticus
(Giraffe spots), Peniophora albobadia
(Dyer’s pollypore or velvet-top fungus), Phaeolus schweinitzii
(Mustard Yellow polypore), Phellinus gilvus
(Black-footed Polypore), Polyporus badius
(Winter polypore), Polyporus brumalis
(Cinnabar Red Polypore), Pycnoporus cinnabarinus
(Split Gill), Schizophyllum commune
(Pigskin Poison Puffball), Scleroderma citrinum
(ochre spreading tooth), Steccherinum ochraceum
(Crowded Parchment), Stereum complicatum
(False Turkey-tail), Stereum ostrea
(AKA Poronidulus conchifer), Trametes conchifer
(Lumpy bracket), Trametes gibbosa
(), Trametes pubescens
(Turkey-tail), Trametes versicolor
(Witches’ Butter), Tremella mesenterica
(Conifer Polypore), Trichaptum abietinum
(Violet Toothed-Polypore), Trichaptum biforme
(), Trichaptum subchartaceum
(), Trichia favoginea
(Ceramic Parchment) Xylobolus frustulatus
Species not currently on club’s life list:
Propolis farinosa
Flavoparmelia caperata
Mycena sp.
Photos by Kris Murawski and Kim Plischke.
I haven’t been able to figure out the Mycena, but I have the micro on iNat, I’ll look again but I don’t think it’s on mycoquebec, or if so it’s not like the picture. A couple small ones that didn’t make it to the table from my case, Lycogala epidendrum, and Sarea resinae.
Wonderful turnout. Glad to see so many anxious to explore and cute pup.
I caught a rude reminder during the foray that it’s always tick season. Be careful out there, fellow foragers!