On a warm summers day walk leader Barbara DeRiso split a large group of mushroom hunters into two groups for a walk round Hartwood acres. The recent rains that have come to the area a bit earlier than normal have resulted in a profusion of mushrooms both in abundance and variety. It was definitely the day of the boletes with 14 different species identified, many of them edible. We found a Boletinellus merulioides (Ash-tree Bolete) which I haven’t seen for a few years but are fruiting at the moment. Other edibles included chanterelles and chicken of the woods. New to the club was Stereum gausapatum (Bleeding Oak Crust), confirmation of the species name and images to follow. Another new name to the list is Amanita ameriverosa, an all white Amanita and a member of the death angle family of which Amanita bisporigera is the most famous member. The two species were separated during DNA studies and the Amanita ameriverosa name is provisional. The mature size of Amanita ameriverosa is larger than Amanita bisporigera which is currently our main field identification characteristic. Like Amanita bisporigera, Amanita ameriverosa is known to contain amatoxins. There are 67 species listed here and at least another 5 or 6 unidentified at the end of the day so quite a haul.
Species list entered by Barbara DeRiso. Species identified by Dick Dougall, John Plischke III, Richard Jacob and others.
List of species found on the walk at Hartwood Acres:
(Meadow Mushroom / Field Mushroom), Agaricus campestris
(), Amanita ameriverosa
(The Yellow Caesar), Amanita banningiana
(Coker’s Amanita), Amanita cokeri
(Yellow Patches), Amanita flavoconia
(Tawny Grisette), Amanita fulva
(Blusher), Amanita rubescens
(Crown-tipped Coral Fungus), Artomyces pyxidatus
(Clustered Brown Bolete), Aureoboletus innixus
(Red-and-yellow Bolete; Bicolor Bolete), Baorangia bicolor
(Ash-tree Bolete), Boletinellus merulioides
(Pallid Bolete), Boletus pallidus
(Red-Mouth Bolete), Boletus subvelutipes
(), Boletus vermiculosoides
(Berkeley’s Polypore), Bondarzewia berkeleyi
(Yellow Tuning Fork), Calocera viscosa
(Smooth chanterelle), Cantharellus lateritius
(Peppery bolete), Chalciporus piperatus
(Common Wood Ciboria), Ciboria peckiana
(Anise Scented Clitocybe), Clitocybe odora
(White Dunce Cap), Conocybe lactea
(Iodine Cort / Viscid Violet Cort), Cortinarius iodes
(White-egg Bird’s-nest Fungus), Crucibulum laeve
(Spathula Shapped Yellow Jelly), Dacryopinax spathularia
(Oak-loving Collybia), Gymnopus dryophilus
(Bolete Mold), Hypomyces chrysospermus
(Amanita Mold), Hypomyces hyalinus
(), Inonotus dryadeus
(Milk-white Toothed-Polypore), Irpex lacteus
(), Lactarius piperatus
(), Lactarius quietus
(Chicken of the woods), Laetiporus cincinnatus
(Chicken Mushroom; Sulphur Shelf), Laetiporus sulphureus
(), Leccinum albellum
(), Leccinum longicurvipes
(Gem-studded Puffball), Lycoperdon perlatum
(Pinwheel Marasmius), Marasmius rotula
(), Marasmius siccus
(), Marasmius sullivantii
(Platterful Mushroom), Megacollybia rodmani
(Pear-shaped Puffball), Morganella pyriformis
(Hexagonal-pored Polypore), Neofavolus alveolaris
(Luminescent Panellus, bitter oyster), Panellus stipticus
(), Phlebia incarnata
(Gilled Bolete), Phylloporus rhodoxanthus
(Oyster Mushroom), Pleurotus ostreatus
(Gray Bolete), Retiboletus griseus
(Purple-bloom Russula), Russula mariae
(Green Russula), Russula virescens
(Pigskin Poison Puffball), Scleroderma citrinum
(Reddish Eyelash Cup), Scutellinia scutellata
(Crowded Parchment), Stereum complicatum
(Bleeding Oak Crust), Stereum gausapatum
(False Turkey-tail), Stereum ostrea
(Old Man-of-the-woods), Strobilomyces strobilaceus
(Black-footed Marasmus), Tetrapyrgos nigripes
(), Thelephora terrestris
(Turkey-tail), Trametes versicolor
(Jellied False Coral), Tremellodendron schweinitzii
(Violet Toothed-Polypore), Trichaptum biforme
(False Black Velvet Bolete), Tylopilus atratus
(Bitter Bolete), Tylopilus felleus
(White Cheese Polypore), Tyromyces chioneus
(Red-Cracked Bolete), Xerocomellus chrysenteron
(Carbon Antlers), Xylaria hypoxylon
(Dead Man’s Fingers), Xylaria polymorpha
(Ceramic Parchment) Xylobolus frustulatus
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Pictures by Dick Dougall and Richard Jacob.
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