Nov./Dec., 2005 Volume 33 Issue 6

Ohio Mushroom Society

The Mushroom Log

RETURN TO HIRAM….mini-foray time.

by Pauline Munk

Saturday, September 17, 2005 fourteen folks arrived on a gray, dreary morning to foray for fungi. We welcomed two students of Dr. Matt Hils, 2 nearby residents and eight OMS members. For those of you who attended the dry summer foray here two months ago, the J.H. Barrow Field Station in September offered far more specimens. Even though the recent rainfall had been sparse our trek along the short loop trail provided over 60 species. After a quick lunch on the Hiram campus at their Arts & Cultural Festival we returned to the challenging task of identification. Seven of us worked under the guidance of Dr. David Miller. 58 specimens were certain leaving over 10 unknowns, much better than last summer’s collection. Our smelliest, much like propane gas, was Phyllotopsis nidulans. The two less obvious coral specimens proved too much for me---very handsome but defying those book descriptions: Ramaria stricta and R. botrytis maybe? I have new found respect for this group described by Arora as “ motley, artifical grouping”(for Clavulina) and “ it is the largest and most complex (for Ramaria). We also had some tapioca looking growth which would suggest a Tremella but oh the confusion! There was so much to work on but we ran out of time. The gray day held right until the very end. Upon loading the cars the rains came! Perfect timing for a great fungi filled day at Hiram’s field station. Thank you Matt Sorrick, our host.

Hiram Species List at the J. H. Barrow Field Station

Agarics

Amanita sp.

Amanita vaginata

Amanita virosa

Armillaria mellea

Cantharellus cibarius

Clitocybe gibba

Collybia dryophila

Coprinus micaceus

Cortinarius sp.

Entoloma abortivum

Hygrocybe sp.

Inocybe sp.

Laccaria ochropurpurea

Lepiota cepaestipes

Lyophyllum decastes Marasmius rotula

Mycena leiana

Mycena sp.

Panellus stipticus

Paxillus involutus

Pholiota squarrosa

Pholiota terrestris(?)

Phyllotopsis nidulans

Pleurotus ostreatus

Pluteus cervinus

Russula aeruginea

Russula brevipes

Russula rosacea

Russula teniceps

Xerula furfuracea 

Beetle

Forked Fungus Beetle Bolitotherus cornutus often found in association with Ganoderma applenatum collected by Matt Sorrick, identified by Bob Bartolotta

Boletes

Boletus parasiticus

Gyrodon merulioides

Gyroporus castanea

Leccinum sp.

Suillus americanus

Suillus grevellei

Polypores

Daedaliopsis confragosa

Ganoderma applanatum

Laetiporus sulfurous

Polyporus badius

P. conchifer

P. mori

P. radicatus

P. squamosus

Schizophyllum commune

Stereum ostoyea

Trametes elegans

T. versicolor

Trichaptum biforme

Tyromyces chioneus

Puffballs, etc.

Crucibulum leave

Gauteria morchelliformis

Lycoperdon perlatum

Scleroderma citrinum

Tooth Fungi

Hericium coralloides

Steccherinum septentrionale

Corals

Ramaria botrytis (?)

R. stricta (?)

Ascomycetes

Hypomyces chrysosperma

H. hyalinus

Fall Foray at Dawes Arboretum 

The fall foray this year at Dawes Arboretum on Oct. 1 & 2.was a great success. There were about 35 members attending, with only a very few visitors, probably because of the location change (to a spot rather off-the-beaten-track), but it served our purposes fairly well. About 11 banded together at the Jacktown Pub for a pre-foray dinner Friday evening.

Morning forays were followed by our usual excellent lunch put together by our hospitality crew from dishes brought by our culinarally-skilled membership.

On Saturday afternoon, during the pm forays, Dick Grimm was presented with a birthday card as this was his birthday. Thus fortified, he spent the better part of Saturday afternoon teaching some of our new beginners as only he, with his patience and long years of experience, can do. Walt, Jerry, and others helped with the ID’ing of the many fungi found. These are listed below. After the afternoon forayers returned, Walt did his usual great job at giving a table walk and referring specifically to several unusual finds. Amongst these were Agrocybe arvalis, which grows from an attached sclerotium, which is a hard knot of fungal tissue which is a storage organ. Also Macrocystidia cucumis, both of these from Dawes. Globifomes graveolens was collected at Flint Ridge. A Boletus curtisii, brought in from Adams Co., was, along with the A. arvalis, both firsts for OMS. 2 collections of a rare (possibly undescribed) but locally abundant Amanita were brought in from Granville.

Also found were both forms of an oddball polypore. Abortiporus biennis is the name for the “normal” stage of it, of which Arora says “Misshapen fruiting bodies are usually found with pores covering much or most of the mushroom---the best fieldmark of this otherwise unimposing, profoundly forgettable, pitiful excuse for a polypore.” He must have gotten up on the wrong side of the bed the day he wrote that! But wait, maybe not, for Michael Kuo (on Mushroom-Expert.com) says “a true oddball—a gnarly, messy-looking mass of irregular white pores that exude a reddish juice and bruise reddish brown. There is hardly a cap or a stem to speak of…” The other form is a finger-like stage with all surfaces covered by pores called Ceriomyces terrestris, (thanks to John Plischke III for this name). Both forms produce (sexual) basidiospores typical of mushrooms, but also (asexual) chlamydospores. I guess polypores can be fun too.

Finger-shaped form (Ceriomyces terrestris)

(courtesy of John Plischke III)

“Normal” form of Abortiporus biennis (courtesy of Michael Kuo, 2004, November). Retrieved from the MushroomExpert.Com Web site: http://www.mushroomexpert.com/abortiporus_biennis.html

Another puzzling find was a Lepiota with a brown cap and a membranous annulus. These were still quite young, with no fully mature specimens found. Lepiota was clearly its genus, but the species eluded “us”, (which is really Walt, the true expert). I was pushing for L. cortinarius, because of the somewhat cobwebby annulus; plus I had just introduced my class to Hygrophorus russula and I thought another example of borrowing a genus name to describe a species would be instructive. That didn’t last long; Walt turned to a Dutch expert, who ID’ed it as L. aspera = L. acutosquamosa, a name that still stands as of now.

Lesson to this saga? It’s much better to have a range of stages of a mushroom to be able to see how it changes as it moves from button to mature specimen since they often change their appearance considerably.

Sunday morning we had 2 talks: Dr. Joe Strong of Elyria described and illustrated with beautiful slides the fungi he has been collecting at Lorain Co. MetroPark’s Sandy Ridge Reservation for the past 3 years; Walt Sturgeon spoke on “Big Fleas, Little Fleas, Mushrooms and Their Habitats” with an emphasis on the many fungi that are parasitic on other fungi.

OHIO MUSHROOM FORAY at DAWES ARBORETUM: SPECIES LIST, OCT 1-2 2005.

1. Abortiporus biennis

2. Agaricus placomyces

3. Agrocybe acericola

4. Agrocybe arvalis (only OMS record)

5. Agrocybe praecox

6. Aleuria aurantia orange peel fungus

7. Amanita alba

white grisette

8. Amnanita cf ceceliae

9. Amanita muscaria

fly agaric

10. Amanita volvata

11. Armillaria mellea honey mushroom

12. Armillaria ostoyae

13. Auricularia auricula cloud ear

14. Bisporella citrina

15. Boletus firmus

16. Calvatia craniformis purple spored puffball

17. Calvatia cyathiformis skull shaped puffball

18. Cantharellus lateritius smooth chanterelle

19. Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa slime mold

20. Cheiminophyllum candissimus

21. Clavicorona pyxidata crown coral

22. Climacodon septentrionale

northern tooth

23. Clitocybe nuda

blewet

24. Clitocybe odora anise clitocybe

25. Clitocybe subconnexa

26. Conocybe filaris

27. Conocybe lacteal

28. Coprinus atramentarius

29. Coprinus comatus

30. Coprinus disseminatus

31. Coprinus micaceus

mica cap

32. Coprinus plicatilis Japanese parasol

33. Coprinus variegatus

34. Crepidotus applanatus

35. Crepidotus mollis

36. Crucibulum laeve

bird’s nest

37. Cyathus striatus

striate bird’s nest

38. Daldinia concentrica

King Alfred’s cakes

39. Ductifera puluahuana

40. Entoloma abortivum hunter’s heart

41. Fuligo septica

scrambled egg slime mold

42. Galerina autumnalis Deadly Galerina

43. Galiella rufa

44. Ganoderma applanatum

artist conk

45. Ganoderma lucidum

ling chih

46. Geastrum saccatum

earth star

47. Gymnopus dryophilus

48. Gymnopus subnudus

49. Gyrodon merulioides

ash bolete

50. Gyroporus castaneus chestnut bolete

51. Hapalopilus rutilans

52. Hematrichia clavata

slime mold

53. Hohenbuehelia angustatus

54. Humaria species

55. Hypomyces chrysospermus

golden hypomyces

56. Hypomyces species

57. Hypsizygus ulmarius

elm oyster

58. Irpex lacteus

59. Ischnoderma resinosum resinous polypore

60. Laccaria amethystina

61. Laccaria laccata

62. Laccaria ochropurpurea

63. Laccaria species

64. Laetiporus sulphureus sulphur shelf

65. Leccinum species

66. Lentinellus ursinus

67. Lentinus levis

68. Lepiota americana

69. Lepiota aspera

70. Lepiota cristata

71. Lepiota nigrodisca

72. Lepiota rubrotincta

73. Leucoagaricus naucinus

74. Leucopaxillus species

75. Leucopholiota decorosa

76. Lycoperdon perlatum gem studded puffball

77. Lycoperdon pyriforme pear shaped puffball

78. Macrocystidia cucumis

79. Marasmius delectans

80. Marasmius nigrodisca

81. Marasmius rotula

82. Marasmius siccus

83. Marasmius species

84. Marasmius sullivantii

85. Megacollybia platyphylla broad gill

86. Meripilus sumstinei

giant polypore

87. Metatrichia vesparium slime mold

88. Mycena inclinata

89. Mycena iodiolens

90. Mycena leaiana

orange mycena

91. Mycena luteopallens walnut mycena

92. Mycena pura

93. Omphalotus illudens

jack-o-lantern

94. Panellus stipticus luminescent Panellus

95. Peziza repanda

96. Phellinus gilvus

97. Phlebia tremellosa

98. Pholiota aurivella

99. Pholiota squarrosoides

100. Pholiota spumosa

101. Phyllotopsis nidulans

102. Pleurotus ostreatus oyster mushroom

103. Pluteus atricapillus deer mushroom

104. Pluteus aurantiorugosus

(rare in Ohio)

105. Pluteus petasatus

106. Pluteus species

107. Polyporus badius

108. Polyporus mori

109. Polyporus squamosus dryad’s saddle

110. Polyporus varius

111. Psathyrella candolleana

112. Psathyrella delineata

113. Psathyrella septentrionale

114. us alboluteus

115. Ramaria stricta

116. Russula mariae

mary’s russula

117.Russula species

118.Sarcoscypha occidentalis

119.Schizophyllum commune

split gill

120.Scleroderma citrina pigskin poison puffball

121.Scleroderma verrucosum

122.Scorias spongiosa

123.Scutellinia scutellata eyelash cup

124.Stereum complicatum

125.Stereum ostrea

126.Strobilomyces floccopus

old man of the woods

127.Stropharia hardii

128.Stropharia rugosoannulata

(pale form)

129.Suillus granulatus

130.