Palisades-Kepler State Park September 13, 2014 Foray with Naturalist Adventures and Prairie States Mushroom Club
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Palisades-Kepler State Park September 13, 2014 Foray with Naturalist Adventures and Prairie States Mushroom Club Agaricus sp. Aleurodiscus oakesii = Hophornbeam Disc or Oak Bark Eater Amanita vaginata = Gray Grisette Armillaria sp. = Honey Mushroom Artomyces pyxidatus = Clavicorona pyxidata; Crown Coral Auricularia auricular = Tree Ears; a jelly fungus Bisporella citrina = Yellow Fairy Cups Boletus spp. = fleshy mushrooms with tubes instead of gills Bondarzewia berkeleyi = Berkeley’s Polypore Calocera cornea = Yellow Tuning Fork Cantharellus cibarius = Yellow Chanterelle Crepidotus spp. = like little Oysters but with brown spores Crucibulum leave = Kettledrum Bird’s Nest Fungus Dacryopinax spathularia = Yellow Jelly Fan Daldinia concentrica = Carbon Balls or Cramp Balls with concentric interior zones Discomycetes = several representatives of the group of ascomycete cup fungi Ductifera pululahuana = Exidia alba; white jelly fungus Entoloma abortivum = Cottage Cheese Mushroom parasitizing Honey Mushroom Ganoderma applanatum = Artist’s Conk Gliophorus psittacinus = Hygrophorus psittacinus; Parrot Mushroom Gyroporus castaneus = Chestnut Bolete Helvella elastic = Elfin Saddle with smooth stipe Hymenoscyphus fructigenus = Stalked Nut Cup Hypomyces chrysospermus = Bolete Mold Inocybe sp. = Fiber Head Ischnoderma resinosum = Thin Skin Resin Polypore Laccaria amethystina Laccaria laccata Laccaria ochropurpurea (purple gills) Lactarius hygrophoroides (mild white latex not staining brown like L. volemus) Lactarius subplinthogalus (distant gills; acrid white latex staining salmon) Laetiporus sulphureus = Chicken-of-the-Woods or Sulphur Shelf Leotia lubrica = Yellow Jelly Babies Lepiota sp. Lycoperdon cf. curtisii = small puffball with connivent spines Lycoperdon perlatum = Gem-studded Puffball Marasmius rotula (wire stem and gills attached to collar at apex of stipe) Marasmius siccus = Pinwheel Marasmius Mycena haematopus = Bleeding Mycena Mycena leaiana = Lady Lion; emarginate gills with orange edge Mycena luteopallens = Yellow Hickory Nut Mycena Mycena spp. Omphalotus olearius (= Clitocybe illudens; Jack-O-Lantern glows in the dark) Panellus stipticus (= Panus stipticus; glows in the dark) Phaeocalicium polyporaeum = Fairy Pins; tiny black columns on Purple Tooth Phellinus gilvus = Tiger Eye Polypore Phlebia incarnata = Merulius incarnates; wrinkled undersurface Pleurotus ostreatus = Oyster Mushroom Pluteus cervinus = Deer Mushroom Polyporus varius = pileus with radial fibers; P. elegans is smooth Psathyrella cf. echiniceps = Weeping Widow; mottled black gills Ramaria cf. aurea Ramaria stricta = coral mushroom on wood; branches with pointed tips Russula mariae = purple pileus; not R. mairei of the R. emetica group Russula virescens = Mossy Green Russula Russula spp. Sarcoscypha occidentalis = Stalked Red Cups Scelroderma cepa = Smooth Earthball Scleroderma citrinum = Scleroderma aurantium/vulgare; Scaly Earthball Schizophyllum commune = Split Gill Spinellus fusiger = Mycena Mold (zygomycete parasite on Bleeding Mycena) Stereum complicatum = Orange Log Leaves Stereum ostrea = False Turkey Tail or Log Leaves Strobilomyces floccopus = Old Man of the Woods Bolete Trametes elegans = Daedaleopsis ambigua; Ambiguous Polypore Trametes versicolor = Turkey Tail used in traditional oriental medicine Tremella fuciformis = translucent jelly fungus Tremellodendrum pallidum = False Coral Jelly Trichaptum biforme = Purple Tooth Tricholomopsis platyphylla = Spring Mop or Platterfull Mushroom Tyromyces sp. = spongy white polypore Xeromphalina kauffmanii = Kauffman’s Little Mushroom Xerula megalospora = Oudemansiella radicata with smooth stipe Xylaria sp. = Dead Man’s Fingers .