About 20 people attended a beautiful late-morning Sunday hike in Frick Park with Stephen Bucklin and Jim Tunney. We searched the Oak/Beech/Maple/Hickory forest covering the hills to the east of the Frick Environmental Center and discovered numerous saprophytic and ectomycorrhizal species of fungi, as well as a few slime molds. One notable find was Thuemenella cubispora, a rare ascomycete fungus, growing on a downed hardwood tree. There were also many Xanthoconium purpureum mushrooms, and several specimens of the contorted form were collected.
Species list entered by Stephen Bucklin.
List of species found on the walk at Hike with a Naturalist: Fantastic Fungi:
(Yellow Patches), Amanita flavoconia
(Smooth chanterelle), Cantharellus lateritius
(Small Chanterelle), Cantharellus minor
(Flat Crep), Crepidotus applanatus
(Thick-maze Oak Polypore), Daedalea quercina
(White jelly fungus), Ductifera pululahuana
(), Gymnopus dichrous
(Yellow Jelly Babies), Leotia lubrica
(Wolf’s Milk Slime), Lycogala epidendrum
(Luminescent Panellus, bitter oyster), Panellus stipticus
(Mustard Yellow polypore), Phellinus gilvus
(Deer mushroom), Pluteus cervinus
(Cinnabar Red Polypore), Pycnoporus cinnabarinus
(), Radulodon copelandii
(Split Gill), Schizophyllum commune
(Pigskin Poison Puffball), Scleroderma citrinum
(False Turkey-tail), Stereum ostrea
(), Thuemenella cubispora
(), Trametes hirsuta
(Turkey-tail), Trametes versicolor
(Violet Toothed-Polypore), Trichaptum biforme
(Raspberry slime mold), Tubifera ferruginosa
(White Cheese Polypore), Tyromyces chioneus
(), Tyromyces fragilis
(), Xanthoconium purpureum
(Carbon Antlers) Xylaria hypoxylon
Species not currently on clubs life list:
2 Amanita spp (unidentified, one sect Vaginatae, one section Amidella)
2 Russula spp (unidentified)
2 Lactarius spp (unidentified)
1 Inocybe sp (unidentified)
1 Pluteus sp (unidentified)
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