High Rock Park - Feb 21, 2026

The snow melted enough to squeeze in a fun walk at High Rock Park before the next snow storm. Some of our favorite cold weather mushrooms showed up. Merismodes (probably fasciculata, but you have to scope it to be sure, right?), Myxarium nucleatum, Tectella patellaris. There was a sighting of Angelina rufescens. And a small Xylaria that covered with a tiny spherical slime mold. ~ 10 people on a ~4.5 hr. walk. Temperatures in the high 30s, low 40s.

*=new to park   **=new to city

 

Ascomycetes

Angelina rufescens
Annulohypoxylon annulatum
Aurantioporthe corni
*Berkleasmium concinnum
Biscogniauxia atropunctata
Biscogniauxia mediterranea
Camillea punctulata
Chlorosplenium chlora
*Dasyscyphella nivea
Diatrype decorticata
Diatrype virescens
Endothia gyrosa
Hypomyces aurantius
Hypoxylon fragiforme
Hypoxylon rubiginosum
Jackrogersella cohaerens
Kretzschmaria deusta
Mollisiaceae sp.
Nemania sp.
Nitschkia broomeana
Orbilia sp.
Patellaria sp.
Phaeocalicium polyporaeum
**Phyllosticta leucothoe
on Leucothoe sp.
*Propolis farinosa
Rhytisma acerinum
Rosellinia corticium
Rosellinia subiculata
Trichoderma sp.
Xylaria liquidambaris
Xylaria sp.
Zythia resinae
 

Atractiellomycetes

Helicogloea compressa
 

Crusts & Parchment

Athelia sp.
Botryobasidium sp.
Hydnophlebia chrysorhiza
Hydnoporia olivacea
Hydnoporia tabacina
Peniophora albobadia
Peniophora cinerea
Phlebia radiata
Plicatura crispa
Radulomyces copelandii
*Steccherinum bourdotii
Steccherinum ochraceum
Stereum complicatum
Stereum fasciatum
Xylobolus frustulatus
 

Cyphelloid Fungi

Merismodes sp.
 

Gasteromycetes

*Scleroderma polyrhizum
 

Gilled Fungi

Mycena meliigena
Mycena sp.
Panellus stipticus
Psathyrellaceae sp.
Resupinatus trichotis-IN01
Schizophyllum commune
*Tectella patellaris
 

Jelly Fungi

Auricularia sp.
Calocera cornea
Dacrymyces sp.
Exidia crenata
Exidia nigricans
Myxarium nucleatum
Naematelia aurantia
Tremella mesenterica
 

Lichens

Candelaria concolor
Flavoparmelia caperata
Phaeophyscia rubropulchra
Physcia millegrana
Porpidia albocaerulescens
 

Myxomycetes

Lycogala sp.
 

Poroid Fungi

Ceriporia purpurea
Cerrena unicolor
Daedaleopsis confragosa
Irpex lacteus
Trametes conchifer
Trametes hirsuta
Trametes versicolor
Trichaptum biforme