Central Park - May 9, 2026

A slow, casual walk in Central Park after a visit to the exhibition of watercolors by Julien Alphonse Lignier at Victoria Munroe Gallery on the Upper East Side. ~12 people on a short ~2hr walk interrupted by rain

*=new to park   **=new to city

 

Ascomycetes

Biscogniauxia marginata
Camillea tinctor
Cryptovalsa prominens
Endothia gyrosa
Eutypa sp.
Eutypella leprosa
Graphostroma platystomum
Hypoxylon perforatum
Immotthia atrograna
Macrodiplodiopsis desmazieri
Mollisiaceae sp.
*Patellaria sp.
Phaeocalicium polyporaeum
Podosphaera erigerontis-canadensis
on Erigeron Smuts
*Podosphaera septentrionalis
on Geum canadense
Xylaria liquidambaris
 

Crusts & Parchment

Hyphodontia sp.
Peniophora albobadia
Radulomyces copelandii
Stereum complicatum
Stereum fasciatum
 

Gilled Fungi

Agrocybe sp.
Candolleomyces candolleanus
Coprinellus flocculosus
Coprinellus sect.-Micacei
Panellus stipticus
 

Jelly Fungi

Auricularia sp.
Dacrymyces chrysospermus
 

Lichens

Candelaria concolor
Flavoparmelia caperata
Phaeophyscia rubropulchra
Physcia stellaris
 

Poroid Fungi

Daedaleopsis confragosa
Fulvifomes robiniae
Ganoderma sessile
Trametes betulina
Trametes conchifer
Trametes lactinea
Trametes versicolor
Trichaptum biforme
 

Rusts

Gymnosporangium clavipes
on Juniperus virginiana
Gymnosporangium globosum
on Juniperus virginiana
*Puccinia liliacearum
on Ornithogalum
 

Smuts

*Vankya heufleri
on Erythronium americanum