Nov./Dec., 2005 Volume 33 Issue 6
RETURN TO HIRAM….mini-foray
time.
by Pauline
Munk
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
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
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
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
68.
Lepiota
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
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.Trametes conchifer