A return to the Pleasant Valley Park in collaboration with Friends of Murrysville Parks saw a mixture of over twenty  members and non-members take a longer than expected walk around the park. We normally try to make to back to the starting point in two hours but ended up taking a bit more of a perimeter route than expected and returned far later. However, we did find a lot of the choice edible Honey mushrooms, both Armillaria gallica with a bulbous base and the larger Armillaria mellea species, along with aborted entoloma’s that are the result of the Entoloma abortivum attacking the honey mushrooms. The park has mixed woods with both sections of red and white pine and larger sections of deciduous mixed oak, maple hickory and other species. This resulted in the wide range of fall mushrooms found and of course there were some unidentified ones on the table.

Species list entered by Richard Jacob and Scott Pavelle.

List of species found on the walk at Pleasant Valley Park:
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita amerifulva (American Orange-Brown Ringless Amanita),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita amerirubescens (Blusher),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita bisporigera (Destroying Angel),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita citrina var citrina (),
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita muscaria var. guessowii (Fly Agaric),
[icon style=”camera”] Armillaria gallica (Honey Mushroom),
[icon style=”camera”] Armillaria mellea (Honey Mushroom),
[icon style=”camera”] Ascocoryne sarcoides (Purple Jelly Drops),
[icon style=”camera”] Bisporella citrina (Yellow Fairy Cups),
[icon style=”camera”] Clavulina cristata (Crested Coral Fungus),
[icon style=”camera”] Clavaria fragilis (White worm coral),
[icon style=”camera”] Crucibulum laeve (White-egg Bird’s-nest Fungus),
[icon style=”camera”] Entoloma abortivum (Aborted Entoloma),
[icon style=”camera”] Exidia recisa (Brown jelly roll),
[icon style=”camera”] Gyroporus castaneus (Chestnut Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Helminthosphaeria clavariarum (),
[icon style=”camera”] Hygrocybe flavescens (),
[icon style=”camera”] Hygrophorus miniatus (Fading Scarlet Waxy-cap),
[icon style=”camera”] Hypholoma fasciculare (Sulfur tuft),
[icon style=”camera”] Hypomyces chrysospermus (Bolete Mold),
[icon style=”camera”] Hypomyces hyalinus (Amanita Mold),
[icon style=”camera”] Laccaria laccata (Common Laccaria; Deceiver Laccaria),
[icon style=”camera”] Laccaria ochropurpurea (Purple-gilled Laccaria),
[icon style=”camera”] Lactarius chelidonium (),
[icon style=”camera”] Lactarius vinaceorufescens (Yellow Latex Milky),
[icon style=”camera”] Laetiporus cincinnatus (White-Pored Chicken of the Woods ),
[icon style=”camera”] Laetiporus sulphureus (Chicken Mushroom; Sulphur Shelf),
[icon style=”camera”] Lentinellus ursinus (),
[icon style=”camera”] Lycogala epidendrum (Wolf’s Milk Slime),
[icon style=”camera”] Megacollybia rodmani (Platterful Mushroom),
[icon style=”camera”] Marasmius capillariss (),
[icon style=”camera”] Morganella pyriformis (Pear-shaped Puffball),
[icon style=”camera”] Mycena galericulata (Common Mycena; Rosy-gill Fairy-helmet),
[icon style=”camera”] Mycena haematopus (Bleeding Mycena),
[icon style=”camera”] Mycena inclinata (Clustered bonnet / oak-stump bonnet cap),
[icon style=”camera”] Mycena luteopallens (Walnut Mycena),
[icon style=”camera”] Neofavolus alveolaris (Hexagonal-pored Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Panellus stipticus (Luminescent Panellus, bitter oyster),
[icon style=”camera”] Phlebia incarnata (),
[icon style=”camera”] Pleurotus pulmonarius (Summer Oyster),
[icon style=”camera”] Polyporus badius (Black-footed Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Psathyrella delineata (Wrinkled-cap Psathyrella),
[icon style=”camera”] Ramaria stricta (),
[icon style=”camera”] Resupinatus applicatus (Black Jelly Oyster),
[icon style=”camera”] Russula mariae (Purple-bloom Russula),
[icon style=”camera”] Schizophyllum commune (Split Gill),
[icon style=”camera”] Scleroderma citrinum (Pigskin Poison Puffball),
[icon style=”camera”] Scutellinia scutellata (Reddish Eyelash Cup),
[icon style=”camera”] Stemonitis splendens (Chocolate Tube Slime),
[icon style=”camera”] Stereum complicatum (Crowded Parchment),
[icon style=”camera”] Stereum ostrea (False Turkey-tail),
[icon style=”camera”] Suillus granulatus (Dotted-stalk Suillus; Granulated Slippery Jack),
[icon style=”camera”] Trametes gibbosa (Lumpy bracket),
[icon style=”camera”] Trametes pubescens (),
[icon style=”camera”] Trametes versicolor (Turkey-tail),
[icon style=”camera”] Tremella reticulata (),
[icon style=”camera”] Trichaptum biforme (Violet Toothed-Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Tubaria furfuracea (Fringed Tubaria),
[icon style=”camera”] Tylopilus felleus (Bitter Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Xylaria polymorpha (Dead Man’s Fingers),
[icon style=”camera”] Xylobolus frustulatus (Ceramic Parchment)

Pictures by Becca Winterhoff and Richard Jacob