A group of Friends of Murrysville Parks and club members joined us for a walk at Townsend park. It was a sunny day and a great time to be in the park. After the recent dry spell the rain has come back to Pittsburgh and we are starting to see a few more terrestrial mushrooms although no amanitas and only one bolete and russula species on this walk. There were a number of interesting mushrooms including an unknown Trametesthat bruised a pink orange on picking , the psilocybin containing Pluteus americanus showing blue bruising on the stem and the delicate Elder Whitewash crust mushroom Lyomyces sambuci that Judy identified and is new to the clubs life list. We would like to thank everyone for being conscientious by wearing masks and social distancing which makes these walks possible.
Update: The Trametes species is actually Steccherinum ochraceum Ochre Spreading Tooth. We did not recognize the morphology (shape) of the specimen.
Update 2: One of the foragers found a tiny slime mold on a stick. This has now been identified as Physarum globuliferum at it is the first time it has been found or identified by the club.
Species list entered by Richard Jacob. Species identified by Judy Mackenroth and Richard Jacob.
List of species found on the walk at Townsend park:
(Meadow Mushroom / Field Mushroom), Agaricus campestris
(Honey Mushroom), Armillaria gallica
(Honey Mushroom), Armillaria mellea
(Crown-tipped Coral Fungus), Artomyces pyxidatus
(Yellow Fairy Cups), Bisporella citrina
(Ash-tree Bolete), Boletinellus merulioides
(Brown Dunce Cap), Conocybe tenera
(Flat Crep), Crepidotus applanatus
(White jelly fungus), Ductifera pululahuana
(Green Cheese Polypore), Fomitopsis spraguei
(Soft Artist’s Conk), Ganoderma lobatum
(Oak-loving Collybia), Gymnopus dryophilus
(Milk-white Toothed-Polypore), Irpex lacteus
(Chicken Mushroom; Sulphur Shelf), Laetiporus sulphureus
(Freckled Dapperling), Lepiota aspera
(Malodorous Lepiota), Lepiota cristata
(Reddening Lepiota), Leucoagaricus americanus
(Onion-stalk Parasol), Leucocoprinus cepistipes
(Luminescent Panellus, bitter oyster), Panellus stipticus
(Locust polypore), Perenniporia robiniophila
(Summer Oyster), Pleurotus pulmonarius
(), Pluteus americanus
(Black-footed Polypore), Polyporus badius
(), Poronidulus conchifer
(Cinnabar Red Polypore), Pycnoporus cinnabarinus
(Asian beauty), Radulomyces copelandii
(Orange Moss Agaric), Rickenella fibula
(Split Gill), Schizophyllum commune
(Dingy Twiglet), Simocybe centunculus
(), Steccherinum ochraceum
(Crowded Parchment), Stereum complicatum
(False Turkey-tail),) Stereum ostrea
(Black-footed Marasmus), Tetrapyrgos nigripes
(), Trametes hirsuta
(), Trametes pubescens
(Turkey-tail), Trametes versicolor
(Violet Toothed-Polypore), Trichaptum biforme
(Ceramic Parchment) Xylobolus frustulatus
Species not currently on clubs life list:
Incoybe sp.
Red Russula species
(Elder whitewash), Lyomyces sambuci
(), Leucocoprinus birnbaumii
Slime mold Physarum globuliferum
Pictures by Richard Jacob
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