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Newsletter of Feb 24, 2016 OMPHALINA OMPHALINA, Newsletter of Foray Newfoundland & Labrador, Has No Fixed Schedule of Publication, and No Promise to Appear Again V OMPHALINISSN 1925-1858 Vol. VII, No 2 Newsletter of Feb 24, 2016 OMPHALINA OMPHALINA, newsletter of Foray Newfoundland & Labrador, has no fixed schedule of publication, and 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-profit 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 (printed copy also archived) <collections.mun.ca/cdm/search/ collection/omphalina/>. Labrador and disseminate the knowledge gained. The content is neither discussed nor approved by the Board of Directors. Therefore, opinions expressed do not represent the views of the Board, Webpage: www.nlmushrooms.ca the Corporation, the partners, the sponsors, or the members. Opinions are solely those of the authors and uncredited opinions solely those of the Editor. ADDRESS Foray Newfoundland & Labrador Please address comments, complaints, contributions to the self-appointed Editor, Andrus Voitk: 21 Pond Rd. Rocky Harbour NL seened AT gmail DOT com, A0K 4N0 … who eagerly invites contributions to OMPHALINA , dealing CANADA with any aspect even remotely related to mushrooms. E-mail: info AT nlmushrooms DOT ca Authors are guaranteed instant fame—fortune to follow. Authors retain copyright to all published material, and submission indicates permission to publish, subject to the usual editorial decisions. Issues are freely available to the BOARD O F DIRECTORS CONSULTANTS public on the FNL website. Because content is protected by authors’ copyright, editors of other publications wishing to use any material, should ask first. No picture, no paper. Michael Burzynski Material should be original and should deal with the mycota PRES I DEN T of Newfoundland and Labrador. Cumulative index and Geoff Thurlow detailed Information for Authors available on our website. TRE A SURER MY co L O G ica L COVER Tina Leonard Dave Malloch SE C RE ta RY Morchella laurentiana Voitk, Burzynski, O’Donnell, NB MUSEU M André Arsenault type collection at unnamed location in Gros Morne National Park, 18 May, 2011. One of two new morel Jim Cornish AUD ito R Gordon Janes species from our province, just described in the Jamie Graham BO nn ELL COLE JA N ES scientific press. Scientific names include the names Robert MacIsaac of the authors, a custom we have generally eschewed Anne Marceau LEG A L CO UNSEL to avoid nominal clutter. But this time… Andrew May Erin McKee The names of both were chosen by the readers of BROTHERS & BURDE N Faye Murrin OMPHALINA . Note the gracious preference for regional Michele Piercey-Normore accuracy over jingoistic and vulgar self-promotion: readers were offered a name reflecting our province, Helen Spencer where it was discovered, but opted for a name Marian Wissink meaning laurentian, to reflect its presence elsewhere in the St Lawrence Basin. OMPHALINA V Vol. VII, No 2 ISSN 1925-1858 OMPHALIN Feb. 24, 2016 CONTENT Editor’s comments .................................. 2 New morels from NL Voitk et al. ........................................ 3 Empty skillet: chicken & mushroom sauce Robin Mc Grath ................................ 11 Boletus betulicola Andrus Voitk ...................................... 12 Datronia scutellata Andrus Voitk ...................................... 14 The Bishop’s sketchbook ........................ 15 Xeromphalina enigmatica Andrus Voitk ...................................... 16 Partners ......................... inside back cover Notice ...................................... back cover This issue and all previous issues available for download from the Foray Newfoundland & Labrador website <nlmushrooms.ca>. OMPHALINA Message from the Editor Happy 98th anniversary of Estonian independence! Here we are, almost two years to the day when we published our morel issue, letting you know that we have three morel species in NL, two of them apparently undescribed. Now, two years later, they are formally described, with names you and everybody else can use. Named by readers of OMPHALINA ! Come May, you should be ready, so go out looking and see whether you can identify them. Everybody eats, so many must also cook, but few send in recipes. Why is that? Thanks to Robin McGrath for her steadfastness in this regard and an appeal to the rest of the cooks—please share your creations or favourites. Boletus betulicola? You may not know the species, but if you were at the last Foray, you ate it. And from comments, apparently it is a species worth knowing. Should you have a bit of scientific curiosity, there is a good project in there to study, figure out. If you have some detective spirit in you, maybe we can find a partner to help with the technical aspect. The same goes for Xeromphalina enigmatica. No more X. campanella. Yes, read the latest: X. enigmatica is the name of our version of the orange pinwheel mushroom. You will learn that enigmatica also has a mystery to be solved: very possibly there are more species than we are prepared to recognize now. If you are curious, have the resources to collect a week or two in a few places on the mainland as well as here, we might be able to find a partner with the high tech toys to finish a good project. Just call. Happy mushrooming! andrus 2 OMPHALINA 8 7 Update: 6 5 4 Our 3 2 morels 1 0 are ecogaia named! eselensis mari3ma enelensis eohespera la1ren3ana sophis3cata cosmopolita transoceana Andrus Voitk, Kerry O’Donnell, Michael tricon3nentalis semperaeadem Beug, Michael Burzynski, Henry Mann Photo: Claudia Hanel Preliminary investigations revealed Laurentian to indicate that its distri- vol. 5, issue 2 for examples of how that at least three morel species bution is limited to the St Lawrence dramatically location, climate or grow in Newfoundland and Labra- River Basin.5 Formal description of maturity influence these characters. dor: Morchella importuna, the mulch these two species has now been ef- Because averages seem reliable but morel, and two undescribed species, fectively published, and we are glad individuals vary (for example, see Mel-19 and Mel-36.1 M. importuna is to report that the names favoured the fruiting time graph, Figure 4), do known from Europe, Asia and North by our readers were used.7 not focus on a single specimen, but 2,3 America. Mel-19 is cosmopolitan, Morels are notoriously similar mor- try to get a sense of a “population.” known from Asia, Europe and east phologically, so a definitive identi- Similarly, do not focus on a single 4 and west coasts of North America, fication frequently requires DNA character, but try to use as many as and Mel-36 is parochial known only sequence data (Figure 3). Our three you can discern. 5 from the St Lawrence River Basin. morels all belong to the M. elata If you wish to identify our species, Our readership was polled for suit- clade of black morels, inseparable then you need read no further, be- able names to describe these novel from many of their lookalike relatives. cause now you have all the informa- species. Of the several choices of- We provide an illustrated description tion you need to take up this chal- fered, eohespera won out for Mel- lenge. If your main interest is collect- 19, and laurentiana for Mel-36, both of our three species (Figures 1 & 2), including the two newly described ing morels for your table, you need with a wide margin over other can- not even have read this far, because didates (graph in title banner).6 Both species, and a tabular key (p. 5). Dif- ferentiating characters work rea- all three species are equally good names reflect the distribution of the edibles. However, if you are curious species: “eohespera” is derived from sonably well in Newfoundland and Labrador, where only three Morchella to know how we decided that two the names of Eos and Hesperus, the of our species were hitherto unde- Greek gods of sunrise and sunset, species have been identified, but may be less reliable in regions with many scribed, read on, because the remain- to symbolize its presence in the East ing discussion is devoted to the con- 4 other similar species. See OMPHALINA and West, and “laurentiana” means sideration of this question. That M. OMPHALINA 3 Figure 1. Illustration from the protologue (formal D, H: electron microscopic appearance of the spores. 7 original description), of M. eohespera (L) and M. Bars: 10 cm (A, E); 1 cm (B,F); 10 µm (C, D, G, H). laurentiana (R). A, E: morels in situ, B, F: texture of Reprinted with permission from Mycologia. ©The Mycological ridges and crypts, C, G: microstructures of ridges, and Society of America. Figure 2. M. importuna. This species is readily ladder-like cross ridges that delimit equal-sized crypts. recognized by its copious appearance in last season’s M. laurentiana has few cross ridges and long crypts; newly made and mulched flower beds, its cespitose M. eohespera is in between. Selected photos—real life growth pattern and the preponderance of dark-edged will not always favour you with such clear differences. 4 OMPHALINA M. laurentiana M. eohespera M. importuna cross ridges number moderate few many angle acute (almost obtuse (oblique cross right angles from straight up and ridges) (horizontal cross vertical down) ridges) shade light darker nearly black crypts few, vertical more, mostly longer many, as long as than wide wide sulcus clear fine cross ridges clear stem angled at base straight straight growth pattern singly singly cespitose calciphilia calcareous bedrock limestone barrens or probably not calcareous bedrock significant? ground disturbance anthropogenic wilderness or past mulched new disturbance 20 + anthropogenic garden a year years ago disturbance before season (average, for mid-May early June late May Bay of Islands region) sterile elements cylindrical to subclavate to subclavate to subcapitate capitate subcapitate Key in tabular form of characters differentiating the three known Morchella species in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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