A good sized crowd of club members and non members met on at the Pleasant Valley Park parking lot. After a short question and answer session concerning seasonable mushrooms, common mushroom edibility fallacies like cooking mushrooms with a penny we moved into the forest with our guide Pia van de Venne of Friends of Murryisville Parks and followed Hank’s trial. Undergrowth was fairly high preventing much mushroom hunting until we came upon areas of Oak where we stated to find lots of different species. We found quite a few Amanita citrina var citrina and Laccaria ochropurpurea (Purple-gilled Laccaria) along with a number of boletes and smaller things. One interesting find was the Blue-green stain Chlorociboria sp. We normally find the just the stained wood but this day we were lucky and found the fruiting bodies too. There are two near identical Chlorociboria sp. Chlorociboria aeruginascens and Chlorociboria aeruginosa and the only way to quickly confirm the species is by looking at the spores. The spores of C. aeruginosa are reported to be longer, minimum length of 10μm, than those of C. aeruginascens, 6 to 8μm. I took the specimen home and examined the spores and can confirm the dimensions as around 6 x 1.5μm and confirm the identification of C. aeruginascens.
Species list entered by Richard Jacob. Species identified by Blaine Sanner and Richard Jacob.
List of species found on the walk at Pleasant Valley Park:
(), Amanita abrupta
(), Amanita citrina var citrina
(Yellow Fairy Cups), Bisporella citrina
(Red-Mouth Bolete), Boletus subvelutipes
(Smooth chanterelle), Cantharellus lateritius
(Coral Slime), Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa
(Blue-green Stain), Chlorociboria aeruginascens
(Crested Coral Fungus), Clavulina cristata
(Spindle Shaped Orange Coral), Clavulinopsis aurantiocinnabarina
(Iodine Cort / Viscid Violet Cort), Cortinarius iodes
(Carbon Balls), Daldinia concentrica
(Aborted Entoloma), Entoloma abortivum
(Frost’s Bolete; Candy Apple Bolete), Exsudoporus frostii
(Bolete Mold), Hypomyces chrysospermus
(Amethyst Tallow-gill or Amethyst Deceiver), Laccaria amethystina
(Purple-gilled Laccaria), Laccaria ochropurpurea
(Chicken Mushroom; Sulphur Shelf), Laetiporus sulphureus
(Gem-studded Puffball), Lycoperdon perlatum
(), Marasmius capillaris
(Bleeding Mycena), Mycena haematopus
(Walnut Mycena), Mycena luteopallens
(Sulfur Tuft), Naematoloma fasciculare
(Luminescent Panellus, bitter oyster), Panellus stipticus
(Gilled Bolete), Phylloporus rhodoxanthus
(Dryad’s Saddle, Pheasant Polypore), Polyporus squamosus
(), Polyporus varius
(Purple-bloom Russula), Russula mariae
(Pigskin Poison Puffball), Scleroderma citrinum
(Reddish Eyelash Cup), Scutellinia scutellata
(Turkey-tail), Trametes versicolor
(Violet Toothed-Polypore), Trichaptum biforme
(White Cheese Polypore), Tyromyces chioneus
(Red-Cracked Bolete), Xerocomellus chrysenteron
(Rooted Collybia) Xerula furfuracea
Species not currently on clubs life list:
Various red capped Russula sp.
Honey mushroom rhizomorphs
Leccinum sp,
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