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:
[icon style=”camera”] Akanthomyces aculeatus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Bjerkandera adusta (Smoky Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Bovista pila (Tumbling Puffball),
[icon style=”camera”] Daedaleopsis confragosa (Thin-maze Flat Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Exidia glandulosa (Beech Jelly Roll),
[icon style=”camera”] Exidia recisa (Brown jelly roll),
[icon style=”camera”] Ganoderma applanatum (Artist’s Conk),
[icon style=”camera”] Gloeophyllum sepiarium (Yellow-red Gill Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Hydnochaete olivaceus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Hymenochaete tabacina (Northern Brown Crust),
[icon style=”camera”] Irpex lacteus (Milk-white Toothed-Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Ischnoderma resinosum (Resinous Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Laetiporus sulphureus (Chicken Mushroom; Sulphur Shelf),
[icon style=”camera”] Lycoperdon pyriforme (AKA Morganella pyriformis),
[icon style=”camera”] Myxarium nucleatum (Crystal Brain),
[icon style=”camera”] Neofavolus alveolaris (Hexagonal-pored Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Panellus stipticus (Luminescent Panellus, bitter oyster),
[icon style=”camera”] Peniophora albobadia (Giraffe spots),
[icon style=”camera”] Phaeolus schweinitzii (Dyer’s pollypore or velvet-top fungus),
[icon style=”camera”] Phellinus gilvus (Mustard Yellow polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Polyporus badius (Black-footed Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Polyporus brumalis (Winter polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Pycnoporus cinnabarinus (Cinnabar Red Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Schizophyllum commune (Split Gill),
[icon style=”camera”] Scleroderma citrinum (Pigskin Poison Puffball),
[icon style=”camera”] Steccherinum ochraceum (ochre spreading tooth),
[icon style=”camera”] Stereum complicatum (Crowded Parchment),
[icon style=”camera”] Stereum ostrea (False Turkey-tail),
[icon style=”camera”] Trametes conchifer (AKA Poronidulus conchifer),
[icon style=”camera”] Trametes gibbosa (Lumpy bracket),
[icon style=”camera”] Trametes pubescens (),
[icon style=”camera”] Trametes versicolor (Turkey-tail),
[icon style=”camera”] Tremella mesenterica (Witches’ Butter),
[icon style=”camera”] Trichaptum abietinum (Conifer Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Trichaptum biforme (Violet Toothed-Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Trichaptum subchartaceum (),
[icon style=”camera”] Trichia favoginea (),
[icon style=”camera”] Xylobolus frustulatus (Ceramic Parchment)

Species not currently on club’s life list:
Propolis farinosa
Flavoparmelia caperata
Mycena sp.

Photos by Kris Murawski and Kim Plischke.