Mycologist and Ranger Paul Trusty led our walk. John Plischke III identified Mucronella bresadolae as an especially rare species. It’s beautiful tiny white teeth right on the substrate. At first glace La Monte Yarroll thought it was a slime mold Ceratiomyxa, but closer examination revealed it to be an actual fungus.

Species list entered by La Monte Yarroll.

List of species found on the walk at South Park Mushroom Mania:
[icon style=”camera”] Amanita muscaria var. guessowii (Fly Agaric),
[icon style=”camera”] Auricularia auricula (Tree-ear / Wood Ear),
[icon style=”camera”] Clitocybe clavipes (Fat-footed Clitocybe),
[icon style=”camera”] Crepidotus mollis (Jelly Crep/Soft Stumpfoot),
[icon style=”camera”] Daedaleopsis confragosa (Thin-maze Flat Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Ganoderma applanatum (Artist’s Conk),
[icon style=”camera”] Gymnopus dryophilus (Oak-loving Collybia),
[icon style=”camera”] Gyroporus castaneus (Chestnut Bolete),
[icon style=”camera”] Lactarius chelidonium (),
[icon style=”camera”] Laccaria ochropurpurea (Purple-gilled Laccaria),
[icon style=”camera”] Lycogala epidendrum (Wolf’s Milk Slime),
[icon style=”camera”] Lycoperdon pyriforme (AKA Morganella pyriformis),
[icon style=”camera”] Metatrichia vesparium (),
[icon style=”camera”] Mucronella bresadolae (),
[icon style=”camera”] Mutinus elegans (Elegant Stinkhorn),
[icon style=”camera”] Mycena leaiana (Orange Mycena),
[icon style=”camera”] Mycena luteopallens (Walnut Mycena),
[icon style=”camera”] Phanerochaete chrysorhiza (),
[icon style=”camera”] Pleurotus pulmonarius (Summer Oyster),
[icon style=”camera”] Polyporus radicatus (Rooting Polypore),
[icon style=”camera”] Scleroderma citrinum (Pigskin Poison Puffball),
[icon style=”camera”] Scleroderma michiganense (),
[icon style=”camera”] Stereum complicatum (Crowded Parchment),
[icon style=”camera”] Suillus americanus (American Slippery Jack; Chicken Fat Suillus),
[icon style=”camera”] Suillus granulatus (Dotted-stalk Suillus; Granulated Slippery Jack),
[icon style=”camera”] Trametes versicolor (Turkey-tail),
[icon style=”camera”] Trichaptum biforme (Violet Toothed-Polypore)

Pictures by John Plischke III