First walk of the year and a big crowd! Its been a warm winter and we have an early spring. Because of this we found a number of fresh mushrooms as well as dried specimens from last year. Find of the day was definitely the Scarlet cup. The guide books often list Sarcoscypha coccineaas the common species of Scarlet cup but this is apparently only found west of the Rockies. Instead we may find Sarcoscypha austriaca, or Sarcoscypha dudleyi, in our area. The two species are indistinguishable by eye and you need to look at the spores and the hairs covering the underside of the cup with a microscope to be able to identify the exact species. I took a sample home and was able to determine that we found Sarcoscypha austriaca. Thanks to last years foray guest mycologist Michael Kuo’s MushroomExpert website for the details on that.
Walk leader La Monte Yarroll, species identified by Blaine Sanner, Richard Jacob, La Monte Yarroll and John Plischke III, Species list entered by Richard Jacob.
List of species found on the walk at South Park:
(Honey Mushroom), Armillaria mellea
(Dog Nose fungus), Camarops petersii
(Blue-green Stain), Chlorociboria aeruginascens
(Leathery Bird’s-nest Fungus / Grey Egg Birds nest), Cyathus stercoreus
(Orange Jelly; Witches’ Butter), Dacrymyces palmatus
(Thin-maze Flat Polypore), Daedaleopsis confragosa
(Carbon Balls), Daldinia concentrica
(), Diatrype stigma
(Beech jelly roll), Exidia glandulosa
(Wood ear), Exidia recisa
(Velvet foot; Enokitake), Flammulina velutipes
(Deadly galerina), Galerina marginata
(Artist’s Conk), Ganoderma applanatum
(), Gloeoporus dichrous
(Elm Oyster), Hypsizygus ulmarius
(Milk-white Toothed-Polypore), Irpex lacteus
(Multicolor Gill Polypore), Lenzites betulina
(Pear-shaped Puffball), Morganella pyriformis
(Hexagonal-pored Polypore), Neofavolus alveolaris
(Late Fall Oyster), Panellus serotinus
(Luminescent Panellus, bitter oyster), Panellus stipticus
(), Perenniporia subacida
(Dyer’s pollypore or velvet-top fungus), Phaeolus schweinitzii
(Cracked cap polypore), Phellinus robineae
(), Phlebia tremellosa
(Black-footed Polypore), Polyporus badius
(), Polyporus varius
(Cinnabar Red Polypore), Pycnoporus cinnabarinus
(), Sarcodontia setosa
(Scarlet cup), Sarcoscypha austriaca
(Split Gill), Schizophyllum commune
(), Serpula lacrimans
(Crowded Parchment), Stereum complicatum
(False Turkey-tail), Stereum ostrea
(), Trametes conchifer
(Lumpy bracket), Trametes gibbosa
(Turkey-tail), Trametes versicolor
(Violet Toothed-Polypore), Trichaptum biforme
(Fringed Tubaria) Tubaria furfuracea
(Ceramic Parchment) Xylobolus frustulatus
Comments:
There were multiple remains of Laetiporus species (chicken of the woods) but they were all white so we could not assign a species.
There were also a number of crust species that were not fully identified.
Maybe a Lyophyllum species.
Pictures by Adam Haritan and Richard Jacob
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