Our walk today at Riverview Park. We helped to clean up some if the garbage around the area as a part of our “Earth Month” theme.

Species list entered by Jim Tunney. Species identified by Cara Coulter, John Plischke and Jim Tunney.

List of species found on the walk at Riverview Park:
[icon style=”camera”] Agrocybe praecox (Spring Agrocybe),
[icon style=”camera”] Apioperdon pyriforme ( Pear-shaped Puffball ),
[icon style=”camera”] Auricularia americana (Tree-ear / Wood Ear),
[icon style=”camera”] Biscogniauxia atropunctata (Hypoxylon canker),
[icon style=”camera”] Cerioporus squamosus (Dryad’s Saddle, Pheasant Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Crucibulum laeve (White-egg Bird’s-nest Fungus),
[icon style=”camera”] Exidia crenata (Brown jelly roll),
[icon style=”camera”] Galerina marginata (Deadly galerina),
[icon style=”camera”] Ganoderma lobatum (Soft Artist’s Conk),
[icon style=”camera”] Hydnoporia olivacea (Brown-toothed Crust Fungus),
[icon style=”camera”] Hypomyces aurantius (),
[icon style=”camera”] Myxarium nucleatum (Crystal Brain),
[icon style=”camera”] Neofavolus alveolaris (Hexagonal-pored Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Phellinus robiniae (Cracked cap polypore, Locust polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Polyporus badius (Black-footed Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Poronidulus conchifer (),
[icon style=”camera”] Punctularia strigoso-zonata (),
[icon style=”camera”] Schizophyllum commune (Split Gill),
[icon style=”camera”] Steccherinum ochraceum (ochre spreading tooth),
[icon style=”camera”] Stereum complicatum (Crowded Parchment),
[icon style=”camera”] Stereum gausapatum (Bleeding Oak Crust),
[icon style=”camera”] Trichaptum biforme (Violet Toothed-Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Xylobolus frustulatus (Ceramic Parchment)

Species not currently on clubs life list:

Sphaerotheca phytoptophila – the powdery mildew fungus associated with hackberry witches broom (John pointed this out and Cara got good pictures)
Exidia nigricans (Warlock butter) also known as [icon style=”camera”] Exidia glandulosa (Beech jelly roll). This species is likely to undergo a name change to an older species name some time in the future. It could be Exidia nigricans but E. nigricans looks to be misapplied to another species at the moment.
Resurpinatus sp.
Antrodia sp.
Armillaria sp. Shoe string mycellium
Mollisia sp.

Lichen
Parmotrema hypotropum (Lichen)
Parmelia sulcata – (hammered) shield lichen (found growing on a branch near the picnic table)
Flavoparmelia caperata – common greenshield lichen (was growing everywhere, I don’t think anyone got a picture)
Crespoa crozalsiana – a lichen I photographed on an oak tree along the trail
Phaeophyscia rubropulcra – orange-cored shadow lichen (Cara photographed it on the stone wall)
Phaeophyscia pusilloides – pom-pom shadow lichen (I photographed this one growing on sandstone…tentative ID because it is typically found on bark according to my field guide but there are pics on iNat of it growing on stone)

Pictures by Cara Coulter