After and all-day class Judith Mackenroth and La Monte Yarroll took our fourteen ALT Naturalists into the woods at Salamander Park. One of the Naturalists knows the park well and gave us a bit of its history as a quarry and later a habitat for Spring Salamanders. Rain fell beforehand to conditions were muddy, but spirits were high. We had a very lively identification session with lots of questions and heavy use of reference books.

Species list entered by La Monte H.P. Yarroll.

List of species found on the walk at Salamandar Park with the Allegheny Land Trust:
[icon style=”camera”] Artomyces pyxidatus (Crown-tipped Coral Fungus),
[icon style=”camera”] Calocera viscosa (Yellow Tuning Fork),
[icon style=”camera”] Cerrena unicolor (Mossy Maze Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Coprinus atramentarius (Alcohol inky),
[icon style=”camera”] Ductifera pululahuana (White jelly fungus),
[icon style=”camera”] Exidia glandulosa (Beech Jelly Roll),
[icon style=”camera”] Hemitrichia clavata (),
[icon style=”camera”] Lycogala epidendrum (Wolf’s Milk Slime),
[icon style=”camera”] Marasmius rotula (Pinwheel Marasmius),
[icon style=”camera”] Megacollybia rodmani (Platterful Mushroom),
[icon style=”camera”] Mycena leaiana (Orange Mycena),
[icon style=”camera”] Pachyella clypeata (),
[icon style=”camera”] Panaeolus foenisecii (The Lawn Mowers Mushroom),
[icon style=”camera”] Parasola plicatilis (Japanese Umbrella Inky),
[icon style=”camera”] Polyporus squamosus (Dryad’s Saddle, Pheasant Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Polyporus varius (),
[icon style=”camera”] Poronidulus conchifer (),
[icon style=”camera”] Pycnoporus cinnabarinus (Cinnabar Red Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Resupinatus applicatus (Black Jelly Oyster),
[icon style=”camera”] Schizophyllum commune (Split Gill),
[icon style=”camera”] Scutellinia scutellata (Reddish Eyelash Cup),
[icon style=”camera”] Stereum complicatum (Crowded Parchment),
[icon style=”camera”] Stereum ostrea (False Turkey-tail),
[icon style=”camera”] Trametes hirsuta (),
[icon style=”camera”] Trametes versicolor (Turkey-tail),
[icon style=”camera”] Tremella mesenterica (Witches’ Butter),
[icon style=”camera”] Trichaptum biforme (Violet Toothed-Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Xylaria polymorpha (Dead Man’s Fingers)

Pictures by La Monte Yarroll and Cecily Franklin.