Beech Brook - Aug 23, 2025

It was quite dry, so we were not surprised that there were few mushrooms to be found. The area where we walked burned last year during the late summer/fall drought. Some of the ground cover that would hold moisture had burned away as well as some dead and vulnerable trees that made up the overstory. No sign of pyrophilic mushrooms either.

*=new to park   **=new to city

 

Ascomycetes

Annulohypoxylon annulatum
Biscogniauxia marginata
Chlorociboria aeruginascens
Chlorosplenium chlora
Diatrype decorticata
*Diatrype undulata
Diatrype virescens
gone black
*Endothia gyrosa
Geohypha terrestris
Hyalorbilia inflatula
Hypoxylon fragiforme
*Hysterobrevium mori
*Immotthia atrograna
Jackrogersella cohaerens
*Lachnum sp.
Mollisiaceae sp.
Nectriaceae sp.
Cosmospora sp. s.l. on a pyrenomycete
Neonectria faginata
*Orbilia dryadum
*Peziza varia
*Podosphaera violae
on Viola
*Purpurepithecium minus
Scutellinia olivascens
*Whalleya microplaca
Xylaria longipes
 

Coral & Club Fungi

*Artomyces pyxidatus
 

Crusts & Parchment

Hydnophlebia chrysorhiza
Radulomyces copelandii
Stereum complicatum
Stereum lobatum
Stereum striatum
Tomentella sp.
s.l.
Tulasnella aurantiaca
Xylobolus frustulatus
 

Cyphelloid Fungi

Henningsomyces candidus
 

Fiber Fans & Vases

Thelephora sp.
 

Gasteromycetes

Scleroderma cepa
Scleroderma citrinum
 

Gilled Fungi

Amanita sect.-Vaginatae
Gymnopilus sp.
*Hygrocybaceae sp.
Inocybe sp.
Lactifluus piperatus
Mycena leaiana
Oudemansiella furfuracea
Oudemansiella sp.
Panellus stipticus
Pluteus cervinus-complex
*Pluteus seticeps
Pluteus sp.
*Russula nigricans
Russula parvovirescens
Russula sp.
Schizophyllum commune
Typhrasa gossypina
 

Jelly Fungi

Exidia crenata
 

Lichens

*Candelaria concolor
Flavoparmelia caperata
Porpidia albocaerulescens
 

Myxomycetes

Lycogala sp.
 

Poroid Fungi

*Bjerkandera fumosa
larger than adusta, has a funky smell
Cerioporus leptocephalus
Daedaleopsis confragosa
Fomes excavatus
Ganoderma lobatum
Gloeoporus dichrous
Hapalopilus rutilans
Laetiporus cincinnatus
Meripilus sumstinei
Neofavolus sp.
Rigidoporus populinus
Trametes betulina
burned black in the fire
Trametes gibbosa
*Trametes pubescens
Trametes versicolor
Trichaptum biforme
Tyromyces chioneus