2013 Fall Foray 11 to Niagara on the Lake
Date: | Wednesday, October 9, 2013 |
Conditions: | Sunny, clear, cool in morning, warming |
Attendees: | 7 (Richard Schwarz, Jenny Chan, John Bukovec, Monike Lepinksi, Shafiz Mohamed, Umberto and Linda Pascal) |
Foray Leader & Reporter: | Tim Myles |
Myxomycetes (Slime Moulds):
- Lycogala epidendrum, wolf’s milk slime mould
Ascomycetes (Sac Fungi):
- Chlorencoelia versiformis, yellowish cups on rotten log
- Daldinia vernicosa, zoned black fungus on dead branches
Basidiomycetes (Club Fungi)
Puffballs:
- Lycoperdon perlatum, gem-studded puffballs in cluster on ground
Tooth Fungi:
- Irpex lacteus, milk –white toothed polypore
Bracket Fungi:
- Meripilus sumsteini, giant polypore, at base of large tree, probably oak. Or the next?
- Fomitopsis spraguei, Sprague’s polypore?
- Tyromyces chioneus, white cheese polypore on dead wood
- Trametes hirsuta, hairy bracket, on fallen dead branches
- Trametes versicolor, turkey tail, on fallen log
- Daedaleopsis confragosa, rubbery maze pore bracket, on dead branches
- Laetiporus cincinatus, chicken of the woods, at base of oak (orange and white, not yellowish)
- Phlebia tremellosus, “wiggly squiggly, or trembling Merulius, on rotten log
- Grifola frondosa, hen of the woods, at base of tree
- Trichaptum biforme purple toothed brackets, on fallen log
- Stereum complicatum wrinkled parchment, on logs
- Stereum hirsutum, hairy parchment, on logs
Boletes:
- Gyroporus castaneus, chestnut bolete on the ground in woods
Mushrooms:
- Entoloma abortivum, aborting entoloma
- Agaricus placomyces, flat top or maybe Psathyrella echiniceps?
- Coprinus plicatilis, Japanese parasol
- Hypholoma sublateritius, smoky-gilled brick cops
- Psathyrella piluliformis, clustered Psathyrella
- Crepidotus crocophyllus, saffron-gilled oysterette
- Hebeloma crusuliniforme, poison pie
- Inocybe geophylla, white fibrehead
- Armillaria mellea, honey mushroom
- Armillaria ostoyae, dark honey mushroom
- Lepista saeva, purple-stemmed agaric
- Lepista irina, iris scented Lepista
- Mycena galericulata, common Mycena
- Panellus stipticus, luminescent Panellus
- Tricholoma pessundatum, red brown Trich
- Cortinarius near fulvoochrascens, colorful Cort