Forest Park - Feb 2, 2020

A whopping 23 people showed up in Forest Park in search of fungi. So far, 83 species have been identified (with several collections of hysterioid fungi in the hopper, as it were. We visited the pine grove (by Myrtle Ave. & Park Lane South), an area we rarely make it to, in search of the resinicolous ascomycete Sarea resinae – and found several collections (also some very nice oyster muchrooms!). Unfortunately for the pine grove, Sigrid Jakob found a large fruiting of Heterobasidion irregulare on a White Pine stump. This polypore is a serious pathogen of conifer, and its presence is a bad sign for the grove. On a brighter note, Hymenochaete rubiginosa received a new common name, “False Tree Bacon,” due to its superficial resemblance to Punctularia strigosozonata, aka “Tree Bacon.”…

*=new to park   **=new to city

 

Ascomycetes

Annulohypoxylon annulatum
Apiosporina morbosa
*Barbatosphaeria barbirostris
Berkleasmium conglobatum
*Bertia moriformis
Biscogniauxia atropunctata
*Biscogniauxia mediterranea
Chlorociboria aeruginascens
*Coccomyces strobi
Creosphaeria sassafras
Daldinia childiae
Diatrype stigma
*Endothia gyrosa
*Erysiphe liriodendri
Eutypa limiformis
*Eutypella leprosa
Gliocladium polyporicola
*Graphostroma platystomum
*Hypoxylon perforatum
Hypoxylon rubiginosum
Hypoxylon howeanum
Immotthia atrograna
Kretzschmaria deusta
Lachnum virgineum
*Lophodermium sp.
Mollisiaceae sp.
Nitschkia broomeana
Patellaria atrata
Peroneutypa scoparia
Phaeocalicium polyporaeum
**Propolis sp.
Pseudolachnea hispidula
Rosellinia corticium
*Sclerococcum stygium
Whalleya microplaca
*Xylaria liquidambaris
*Zythia resinae
 

Crusts & Parchment

Botryobasidium sp.
Corticium roseum
Hydnoporia olivacea
Hymenochaete rubiginosa
False Tree Bacon, where it was dubbed with its common name
*Merulius tremellosus
Peniophora albobadia
Peniophora cinerea
Peniophora incarnata
Plicatura crispa
Punctularia strigosozonata
Radulomyces copelandii
Steccherinum ochraceum
Stereum complicatum
*Stereum gausapatum
Stereum sp.
Xylobolus frustulatus
 

Cyphelloid Fungi

Merismodes fasciculata
 

Gasteromycetes

Apioperdon pyriforme
*Calvatia cyathiformis
 

Gilled Fungi

Flammulina velutipes
Hypholoma lateritium
*Mycena semivestipes
Panellus stipticus
Pleurotus ostreatus
Schizophyllum commune
 

Jelly Fungi

Dacrymyces sp.
Exidia crenata
Myxarium nucleatum
 

Myxomycetes

*Trichia sp.
 

Polypores

Cerioporus leptocephalus
Fulvifomes robiniae
*Heterobasidion irregulare
Irpex lacteus
Ischnoderma resinosum
Lentinus brumalis
*Neofavolus sp.
*Perenniporia medulla-panis
Phellinus sp.
(resupinate, on oak log/ another somewhat reflexed on a standing oak)
Porodisculus pendulus
Trametes betulina
Trametes gibbosa
Trametes hirsuta
Trametes versicolor
Trichaptum biforme
 

Toothed Fungi

*Donkia pulcherrima
(old)