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Newsletter of Sep 15, 2012 V OMPHALIN ISSN 1925-1858 Vol. III, No 9 Newsletter of Sep 15, 2012 OMPHALINA OMPHALINA is the lackadaisical newsletter of Foray Newfoundland & Labrador. There is no schedule of publications, no promise to appear again. Its primary purpose is to serve as a conduit of information to registrants of the upcoming foray and secondarily as a communications tool with members. Issues of OMPHALINA are archived in: is an amateur, volunteer-run, community, Library and Archives Canada’s Electronic Collection <http://epe. not-for-profi t organization with a mission to lac-bac.gc.ca/100/201/300/omphalina/index.html>, and organize enjoyable and informative amateur Centre for Newfoundland Studies, Queen Elizabeth II Library, mushroom forays in Newfoundland and where a copy is also printed and archived <http://collections. mun.ca/cdm4/description.php?phpReturn=typeListing.php&id= Labrador and disseminate the knowledge 162>. gained. The content is neither discussed nor approved by the Board of Directors. Therefore, opinions Webpage: www.nlmushrooms.ca expressed do not represent the views of the Board, the Corporation, the partners, the sponsors, or the members. Opinions are solely those of the authors ADDRESS and uncredited opinions solely those of the Editor. Foray Newfoundland & Labrador 21 Pond Rd. Please address comments, complaints and contribu- Rocky Harbour NL tions to the largely self-appointed Editor, Andrus Voitk: A0K 4N0 seened AT gmail DOT com, CANADA E-mail: info AT nlmushrooms DOT ca … who eagerly invites contributions to OMPHALINA, deal- ing with any aspect even remotely related to mushrooms. Authors are guaranteed instant fame—fortune to follow. BOARD OF DIRECTORS CONSULTANTS Authors retain copyright to published material, and submis- sion indicates permission to publish, subject to the usual editorial decisions. Issues are freely available to the public Michael Burzynski on the FNL website. Because content is protected by authors’ copyright, editors of other publications wishing to use any PRESIDENT material, should ask fi rst. Geoff Thurlow COVER TREASURER MYCOLOGICAL Faye Murrin Wood rot—good rot, fi ber art portrait of a cut rotting Dave Malloch balsam fi r stump by Maria Voitk. The small cubes SECRETARY NB MUSEUM represent Carbon building blocks released back to Andrus Voitk the triosphere. Page 4 offers the choice of the same Past PRESIDENT AUDITOR cover with Maria’s photo, for readers unable to relate Rick Squire Randy Batten to artsy visible Carbon building blocks. ERNST & YOUNG Jim Cornish Demarcated territories occupied by different fungi Jamie Graham LEGAL COUNSEL are readily seen. Read the lead article to learn what this picture tells us. Tina Leonard Andrew May BROTHERS & BURDEN Every mushroom that you pick from the ground or Anne Marceau elsewhere arises from a similar fungus in its own Maria Voitk space, associated with other organisms either helping Marian Wissink or threatening it. The scale and the relationships may differ, but the concept is the same for all fungi, even if it is not always as demonstrably visible, as it is for those living in wood. OMPHALINA V Vol. III, No 9 OMPHALIN ISSN 1925-1858 Sep. 15, 2012 CONTENT Editor’s comments ................................. 2 Foray matters ......................................... 3 Second cover .......................................... 4 Rot in art or rotten art? Andrus Voitk ..................................... 5 Dacrymyces chrysospermus Jim Cornish ...................................... 8 Fungi on polypores Leif Ryvarden .................................... 10 Rotters’ gallery Andrus Voitk ..................................... 12 The Bishop’s sketchbook ........................ 17 Stenocybe pullulata Tõnu Naelapea ................................. 18 Gloeophyllum sepiarium Andrus Voitk ....................................... 19 Partners ........................... inside back cover Foray Notice ........................... back cover This issue and all previous issues available for download from the Foray Newfoundland & Labrador website <nlmushrooms.ca>. OMPHALINA WelcomeWelcome to our rrotot iissue.ssue Of coursecourse, the googoodd rereaderader thethe wiwildernesslderness made madea a huhugege concontributiontribution totowardward oourur of OMPHALINA has encountered rot before, in every own interest in the outdoors. Perhaps all the worry issue, we daresay. If 90% of all organic matter is about getting children interested in nature could be decomposed by fungi, then any publication devoted quelled by letting them read and then giving them to fungi will discuss rotters over and over. That unstructured free time to act out their imagination in said, it is still good to devote an issue to the subject the outdoors on their own? formally, in order to bring it to focus. Henceforth the good reader will recognize rot when she sees it. MEMBERSHIP Rot allows us to bring out of hiding many weird and wonderful fungi that we often overlook. Some With the beginning of our foray, the memberships for obvious reason. A rotters’ gallery toward the of those of you not joining us this time come to an end is topped off by a contribution from an author end. Should you wish to continue your membership, unfamiliar with the world of fungi. He did the story please download and fi ll out a Membership Form in a few hours on a challenge by the Editor, just to from our website, and send in with payment. Then show that anybody could write about mushrooms— you’ll get FUNGI without interruption. We pay for something obvious to every reader of OMPHALINA. FUNGI once a year, right after the foray, so if that is Ergo, any reader could work up a contribution your wish, please make sure your payment arrives to (please do so to make this journal more colourful). our Treasurer before October 15. If you are parting And Glynn Bishop captures a gallery rotter in water ways, it has been a pleasure travelling with you, we colour. We close the issue with a familiar example of thank you for the company and wish you a good rotters of the unrottable. Everything rots: if we knew journey wherever your new path takes you. You can more about them, we should write about the fungi still download OMPHALINA for free from our website, decomposing CDs. but it will no longer be sent to your e-mail address. The date of publication is as close as we can manage to the autumnal equinox, ringing in an Happy mushrooming! end to summer. September 15 is Felt Hat Day, the day gentlemen exchanged their lighter and cooler andrus summer headgear for chapeaux made of felt, getting ready for winter. This is a joyful time for mycophiles, because autumn is peak season for the mushrooms we enjoy. Within a week of autumn’s beginning, our foray starts. For us, toiling away at the cramped editorial suites of OMPHALINA, September 15 has a personal connection. It is the birthday of James Fenimore Cooper. As a child we were enthralled by his Leatherstocking Tales; The Last Mohican lives within us yet. Looking back, there is no doubt that these romantic tales of 2 OMPHALINA Foray matters… The 2012 foray is fully subscribed. Registrations are closed and a few names are on the waiting list. Thank you for your interest and support, and sincere apologies to the few latecomers we could not accommodate this year. This is our fourth year with a waiting list—the message is clear—but the fi rst time we have actually had to turn people away. It is a very uncomfortable thing to do. FRIDAY MYCOBLITZ. This year’s foray begins you arrive earlier, please be patient—the Registrars with a mycoblitz of Stockton Path Provincial Park are at the Lockston Park Mycoblitz. (map below). Be at the Administrative Building INFORMATION. Please make sure that you read before 12:00 noon, Friday, September 28, 2012, all the pertinent information about the Foray, both when teams disperse. If you come later, everybody general and specifi c, on our website. will be gone. Bring your own drink and lunch to eat on the trail, because there are no stores nearby. If you cannot make it, we’ll see you at the reception at Terra Nova Hospitality Home after 4:00 PM! Should OMPHALINA 3 V OMPHALINISSN 1925-1858 Vol. III, No 9 Newsletter of Sep 15, 2012 OMPHALINA ROTTEN ART or ROT IN ART? Andrus Voitk You can enjoy the spectacular cover decay—good decay” at the 2009 increasing layers of meaning, like go- for its dramatic effect, pleasing foray. Tom enlightened us about ing from annual ring to annual ring, colour harmony, disturbing symme- the error of equating rot with lack right to the pith of the tree. try, or for any number of other ap- of beauty. Only the unenlightened, To understand what the picture pealing features. One of the things who do not understand, relegate tells us, we need to review the that increases enjoyment for art rot to the evil forces of the dark components of a tree in cross sec- lovers, is fi nding overtones of com- side. tion. It has three parts, each with its plexity in art, in addition to the aes- Forests are nature’s carbon bank, own function: bark, sapwood and thetic attributes of colour and form. but the account is neither static, nor heartwood, the middle of which is If you recognize the subject of the for only making deposits. Nature’s the pith. Like our skin, the bark en- cover picture, you begin to search banking is forever in fl ux, with velops the tree, protects it against for symbolism and “meaning”. Im- steady deposits and withdrawals, invasive hostile agents and prevents mediately obvious is the remarkable and rot is nature’s way to withdraw evaporation of inner juices. The sap- amount of rot in the wood, covered carbon building blocks, so that new wood is the active, live part of the up by apparently normal bark. No organisms can be regenerated tree, fi lled with vascular channels, doubt this will lead some to make a forever. Followers of Volk recognize through which water and nutrients connection with the adage, “beauty the beauty of this system bared for travel from and to other sections of is skin deep”.
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