Walk leader Jack and Valerie Baker. About 60 people turned up for the walk, a lot of them new to mushrooms. It was a hot, dry day but shady and cooler in the woods. Sixty-four identifiable species were found. Only two people found a good quantity of Chanterelles as they went off on their own to explore the Devils Elbow trail–the mushrooms were hidden under fallen leaves there. Chanterelles were sparsely scattered around the Park. More Boletes were found than anything else.

Species list entered by Jack and Valerie Baker. Identifiers were LaMonte Yarrow, Dick Dougall, Brian Sanders, John Plischke III, and Jack Baker.

List of species found on the walk at North Park Walk:

[icon style=”camera”] Agaricus silvaticus (Wood Agaricus),
[icon style=”camera”] Albatrellus ovinus (Sheep Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita bisporigera (Destroying Angel),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita brunnescens (Cream Colored Cleft-foot Amanita),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita flavoconia (Yellow Patches),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita porphyri (),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita rubescens (Blusher),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita vaginata var. vaginata (Grisette),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita volvata (Volvate Amanita),
[icon style=”camera”] Aureoboletus innixus (Clustered Brown Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Baorangia bicolor (Red-and-yellow Bolete; Bicolor Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Boletus discolor (),
[icon style=”camera”] Boletus pallidus (Pallid Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Boletus subgraveolens (),
[icon style=”camera”] Boletus subvelutipes (Red-Mouth Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Boletus vermiculosoides (),
[icon style=”camera”] Bondarzewia berkeleyi (Berkeley’s Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Cantharellus confluens (),
[icon style=”camera”] Cantharellus lateritius (Smooth chanterelle),
[icon style=”camera”] Clitopilus prunulus (Sweetbread Mushroom),
[icon style=”camera”] Cryptoporus volvatus (Veiled Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Diatrype stigma (),
[icon style=”camera”] Exsudoporus frostii (Frost’s Bolete; Candy Apple Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Fomitopsis spraguei (Green Cheese Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Ganoderma applanatum (Artist’s Conk),
[icon style=”camera”] Gymnopus dryophilus (Oak-loving Collybia),
[icon style=”camera”] Hapalopilus nidulans (Tender Nesting Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Hydnochaete olivaceus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Hypomyces chrysospermus (Bolete Mold),
[icon style=”camera”] Inonotus dryadeus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Irpex lacteus (Milk-white Toothed-Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Ischnoderma resinosum (),
[icon style=”camera”] Lactarius piperatus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Laetiporus cincinnatus (Chicken of the woods),
[icon style=”camera”] Lycoperdon perlatum (Gem-studded Puffball),
[icon style=”camera”] Marasmius siccus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Megacollybia rodmani (Platterful Mushroom),
[icon style=”camera”] Neofavolus alveolaris (Hexagonal-pored Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Peniophora gigantea (),
[icon style=”camera”] Phylloporus rhodoxanthus (Gilled Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Piptoporus betulinus (Birch Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Pleurotus ostreatus (Oyster Mushroom),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula albonigra (),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula atropurpurea (),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula brevipes (),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula compacta (Firm Russula),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula crustosa (Green Quilt Russula),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula cyanoxantha (),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula fragilis (Fragile Russula),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula laurocerasi (),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula mariae (Purple-bloom Russula),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula variata (Variegated Russula),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula virescens (Green Russula),
[icon style=”camera”] Scleroderma citrinum (Pigskin Poison Puffball),
[icon style=”camera”] Stereum complicatum (Crowded 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”] Trichaptum biforme (Violet Toothed-Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Trichoglossum hirsutum (Velvety Earth-tongue),
[icon style=”camera”] Tylopilus alboater (Black Velvet Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Tyromyces chioneus (White Cheese Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Xerocomus subtomentosus (Yellow-Cracked Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Xylaria polymorpha (Dead Man’s Fingers)

Species not currently on clubs life list:
One additional species listed as Xeroconium ferruginosus but this may be misnamed.

Photos by Adam Haritan