Last years pre-foray walk at Cook Forest State Park was dry, this year conditions were perfect. There was a both a huge variety and an abundance of specimens in the forest. We walked in two different areas, Hemlock old growth and Oak forest, and found species characteristic of both areas. There were lots of species that we do not normally see on the walks closer to Pittsburgh which made the identification all the more fun.

Species list entered by La Monte Yarroll. Species identified by Gary Lincoff, Walt Sturgeon, La Monte Yarroll, Garrett Taylor, Jim Tunney, Richard Jacob and others.

List of species found on the walk at Lincoff pre foray Cook Forest State Park:
[icon style=”camera”] Agaricus arvensis (Horse Mushroom),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita abrupta (),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita bisporigera (Destroying Angel),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita brunnescens (Cream Colored Cleft-foot Amanita),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita brunnescens var. pallida (Cream Colored Cleft-foot Amanita),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita ceciliae (Strangulated Amanita),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita cinereoconia (),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita citrina var citrina (),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita flavoconia (Yellow Patches),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita fulva (Tawny Grisette),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita muscaria (Fly Agaric),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita muscaria var. guessowii (Fly Agaric),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita rubescens (Blusher),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita submaculata (),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita vaginata var. vaginata (Grisette),
[icon style=”camera”] Arcyria cinerea (White Carnival Candy Slime),
[icon style=”camera”] Armillaria mellea (Honey Mushroom),
[icon style=”camera”] Artomyces pyxidatus (Crown-tipped Coral Fungus),
[icon style=”camera”] Austroboletus gracilis (Graceful Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Bisporella citrina (Yellow Fairy Cups),
[icon style=”camera”] Bolbitius titubans (Egg Yolk),
[icon style=”camera”] Boletus edulis (King Bolete; Porcini; Cepe; Steinpilz),
[icon style=”camera”] Boletus pallidus (Pallid Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Boletus subvelutipes (Red-Mouth Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Byssocorticium atrovirens (),
[icon style=”camera”] Calvatia craniformis (Skull Shaped Puffball),
[icon style=”camera”] Calvatia cyathiformis (Vase-shaped giant puffball / Purple Spored Puffball),
[icon style=”camera”] Cantharellus appalachiensis (Appalachian Chanterelle),
[icon style=”camera”] Cantharellus lateritius (Smooth chanterelle),
[icon style=”camera”] Cantharellus minor (Small Chanterelle),
[icon style=”camera”] Cantharellus tubaeformis (),
[icon style=”camera”] Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa (Coral Slime),
[icon style=”camera”] Chlorociboria aeruginascens (Blue-green Stain),
[icon style=”camera”] Clavulina cinerea (),
[icon style=”camera”] Clavulina cristata (Crested Coral Fungus),
[icon style=”camera”] Climacocystis borealis (),
[icon style=”camera”] Clitocybe clavipes (Fat-footed Clitocybe),
[icon style=”camera”] Clitocybe nuda (Blewit),
[icon style=”camera”] Collybia abundans (),
[icon style=”camera”] Cordyceps militaris (Trooping Cordyceps),
[icon style=”camera”] Cordyceps ophioglossoides (),
[icon style=”camera”] Cortinarius alboviolaceus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Cortinarius armillatus (Bracelet Cort / Red Banded Cort),
[icon style=”camera”] Cortinarius cinnabarinus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Cortinarius corrugatus (Corrugated Cap Cort),
[icon style=”camera”] Cortinarius harrisonii (),
[icon style=”camera”] Cortinarius iodes (Iodine Cort / Viscid Violet Cort),
[icon style=”camera”] Cortinarius limonius (),
[icon style=”camera”] Cortinarius meinhardii (),
[icon style=”camera”] Cortinarius semisanguineus (Red-gilled Cort),
[icon style=”camera”] Crepidotus applanatus (Flat Crep),
[icon style=”camera”] Crucibulum laeve (White-egg Bird’s-nest Fungus),
[icon style=”camera”] Cuphophyllus pratensis (),
[icon style=”camera”] Cyanoboletus pulverulentus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Cystoderma amianthinum var. rugosoreticulatum (),
[icon style=”camera”] Dacrymyces palmatus (Orange Jelly; Witches’ Butter),
[icon style=”camera”] Daedaleopsis confragosa (Thin-maze Flat Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Diatrype stigma (),
[icon style=”camera”] Elaphocordyceps capitata (),
[icon style=”camera”] Elaphomyces granulatus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Entoloma strictius (),
[icon style=”camera”] Exidia recisa (Wood ear),
[icon style=”camera”] Fistulina hepatica (Beefsteak Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Fomes fomentarius (Tinder Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Fomitopsis pinicola (Red Bealted Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Fomitopsis spraguei (Green Cheese Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Fuligo septica (Scrambled-egg Slime; Dog Vomit Slime),
[icon style=”camera”] Ganoderma applanatum (Artist’s Conk),
[icon style=”camera”] Gerronema strombodes (The Golden-gilled Gerronema),
[icon style=”camera”] Gloeoporus dichrous (),
[icon style=”camera”] Grifola frondosa (Hen of the Woods / Sheep Head),
[icon style=”camera”] Gymnopilus luteus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Gymnopus dryophila (),
[icon style=”camera”] Gyroporus castaneus (Chestnut Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Helminthosphaeria clavariarum (),
[icon style=”camera”] Helvella crispa (),
[icon style=”camera”] Helvella elastica (),
[icon style=”camera”] Helvella macropus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Hydnellum scrobiculatum (),
[icon style=”camera”] Hydnochaete olivaceus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Hydnum repandum (Sweet Tooth Hedgehog Fungus),
[icon style=”camera”] Hygrophorus flavescens (),
[icon style=”camera”] Hygrophorus marginatus (Orange-gilled Waxy-cap),
[icon style=”camera”] Hygrophorus miniatus (Fading Scarlet Waxy-cap),
[icon style=”camera”] Hypholoma fasciculare (),
[icon style=”camera”] Hypholoma sublateritium (Brick top),
[icon style=”camera”] Hypomyces cervinigenus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Hypomyces chrysospermus (Bolete Mold),
[icon style=”camera”] Hypomyces luteovirens (Yellow-green Russula Mold),
[icon style=”camera”] Hypomyces microspermus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Imleria badia (Bay Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Inocybe albodisca (),
[icon style=”camera”] Inocybe nigrodisca (),
[icon style=”camera”] Inonotus dryadeus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Irpex lacteus (Milk-white Toothed-Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Ischnoderma benzoinum (),
[icon style=”camera”] Ischnoderma resinosum (Resinous Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Laccaria laccata (Common Laccaria; Deceiver Laccaria),
[icon style=”camera”] Laccaria ochropurpurea (Purple-gilled Laccaria),
[icon style=”camera”] Lacrymaria velutina (Weeping widow),
[icon style=”camera”] Lactarius allardii (),
[icon style=”camera”] Lactarius camphoratus (Aromatic Milky),
[icon style=”camera”] Lactarius corrugis (Corrugated-cap Milky),
[icon style=”camera”] Lactarius deceptivus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Lactarius deliciosus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Lactarius hygrophoroides (Hygrophorus Milky),
[icon style=”camera”] Lactarius lignyotellus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Lactarius lignyotus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Lactarius pseudomucidus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Lactarius pubescens (Bearded Milkcap mushroom),
[icon style=”camera”] Lactarius serifluus (Watery Milkcap),
[icon style=”camera”] Lactarius sordidus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Lactarius subpurpureus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Lactarius subvellereus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Lactarius vinaceorufescens (Yellow Latex Milky),
[icon style=”camera”] Laetiporus cincinnatus (Chicken of the woods),
[icon style=”camera”] Laetiporus sulphureus (Chicken Mushroom; Sulphur Shelf),
[icon style=”camera”] Leccinum longicurvipes (),
[icon style=”camera”] Leccinum scabrum (Birch Scaber Stalk),
[icon style=”camera”] Leotia lubrica (Yellow Jelly Babies),
[icon style=”camera”] Lepiota aspera (),
[icon style=”camera”] Leucogloea compressa (),
[icon style=”camera”] Lophodermium pinastri (),
[icon style=”camera”] Lycogala epidendrum (Wolf’s Milk Slime),
[icon style=”camera”] Lycoperdon perlatum (Gem-studded Puffball),
[icon style=”camera”] Lyophyllum decastes (Fried Chicken Mushroom),
[icon style=”camera”] Marasmius opacus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Megacollybia rodmani (Platterful Mushroom),
[icon style=”camera”] Mycena haematopus (Bleeding Mycena),
[icon style=”camera”] Mycena inclinata (Clustered bonnet / oak-stump bonnet cap),
[icon style=”camera”] Mycena leaiana (Orange Mycena),
[icon style=”camera”] Nectria cinnabarina (Coral Spot Fungus),
[icon style=”camera”] Omphalotus illudens (Jack-o’-lantern),
[icon style=”camera”] Onnia tomentosa (),
[icon style=”camera”] Panellus stipticus (Luminescent Panellus, bitter oyster),
[icon style=”camera”] Paxillus atrotomentosus (Velvet-footed Pax),
[icon style=”camera”] Paxillus involutus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Peziza phyllogena (),
[icon style=”camera”] Phaeolus schweinitzii (Dyer’s pollypore or velvet-top fungus),
[icon style=”camera”] Phallus ravenelii (),
[icon style=”camera”] Phellodon niger (),
[icon style=”camera”] Phellodon tomentosus (Zoned cork hydnum),
[icon style=”camera”] Phlebia tremellosa (),
[icon style=”camera”] Phlebiella vaga (),
[icon style=”camera”] Pholiota alnicola (),
[icon style=”camera”] Pholiota squarrosa (Scaly Pholiota),
[icon style=”camera”] Pholiota squarrosoides (),
[icon style=”camera”] Phylloporus rhodoxanthus (Gilled Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Piptoporus betulinus (Birch Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Pleurotus ostreatus (Oyster Mushroom),
[icon style=”camera”] Psathyrella candolleana (),
[icon style=”camera”] Psathyrella conissans (),
[icon style=”camera”] Pseudoboletus parasiticus (Parasitic Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Pseudohydnum gelatinosum (),
[icon style=”camera”] Ramaria aurea (Golden Coral),
[icon style=”camera”] Ramaria formosa (beautiful clavaria, handsome clavaria, yellow-tipped- or pink coral fungus),
[icon style=”camera”] Ramaria stricta (),
[icon style=”camera”] Ramariopsis kunzei (),
[icon style=”camera”] Rickenella fibula (Orange Moss Agaric),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula brevipes (),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula compacta (Firm Russula),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula crustosa (Green Quilt Russula),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula dissimulans (Blushing russula ),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula foetens (),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula fragilis (Fragile Russula),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula granulata (),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula mariae (Purple-bloom Russula),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula modesta (),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula peckii (),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula rubescens (),
[icon style=”camera”] Scleroderma cepa (),
[icon style=”camera”] Scleroderma citrinum (Pigskin Poison Puffball),
[icon style=”camera”] Scutellinia scutellata (Reddish Eyelash Cup),
[icon style=”camera”] Sebacina incrustans (),
[icon style=”camera”] Simocybe serrulata (),
[icon style=”camera”] Stemonitis splendens (Chocolate Tube Slime),
[icon style=”camera”] Stereum complicatum (Crowded Parchment),
[icon style=”camera”] Stereum hirsutum (Hairy Parchment),
[icon style=”camera”] Stereum ostrea (False Turkey-tail),
[icon style=”camera”] Strobilomyces confusus (Old Man-of-the-woods),
[icon style=”camera”] Strobilomyces strobilaceus (Old Man-of-the-woods),
[icon style=”camera”] Suillus americanus (American Slippery Jack; Chicken Fat Suillus),
[icon style=”camera”] Suillus granulatus (Dotted-stalk Suillus; Granulated Slippery Jack),
[icon style=”camera”] Suillus placidus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Suillus spraguei (Painted Suillus),
[icon style=”camera”] Thuemenella cubispora (),
[icon style=”camera”] Trametes versicolor (Turkey-tail),
[icon style=”camera”] Trichaptum abietinum (Conifer Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Trichaptum biforme (Violet Toothed-Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Tricholomopsis decora (Decorated Mop),
[icon style=”camera”] Tricholomopsis sulfureoides (),
[icon style=”camera”] Tubifera ferruginosa (Raspberry slime mold),
[icon style=”camera”] Tylopilus felleus (Bitter Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Tylopilus indecisus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Tyromyces chioneus (White Cheese Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Tyromyces fragilis (),
[icon style=”camera”] Xerocomellus chrysenteron (Red-Cracked Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Xerocomus hortonii (Corrugated Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Xeromphalina campanella (Fuzzy-foot),
[icon style=”camera”] Xerula furfuracea (Rooted Collybia),
[icon style=”camera”] Xerula radicata (),
[icon style=”camera”] Xylaria polymorpha (Dead Man’s Fingers),
[icon style=”camera”] Xylobolus frustulatus (Ceramic Parchment)

Species not currently on clubs life list:
Agaricus sp. (large in duff under pine)
Clitocybe sp.
Diatrypella sp.
Gymnopilus sp (tiny)
Hebeloma sp. (white cap)
Hydnellum sp. ?
Hygrophorus spp.
Hymenochaete sp. ?
Inocybe spp. (3 species)
Lycoperdon sp. (pinkish brown subincarnatum?)
Russula sp. (purple cap)
Russula spp. (several other species)
Trichoglossum sp. (hirsutum?)

Comments:
Pictures by Richard Jacob, Adam Haritan and Garrett Taylor. If you recognise one of the species in an unlabeled image please comment and we will add it.

Identified as Ischnoderma benzoinum