Front page mushroom article in Saturday’s New York Times (10/22/11)
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/after-biblical-rains-a-glorious-crop-of-mushrooms/
“Nature adds water, and everything mushrooms” by Andy Newman
TELLURIDE XXXI – A great success – a chanterelle year !
TELLURIDE MUSHROOM FESTIVAL is Thursday, August 18 to Sunday, August 21 – it’s the place to be for me!
What winter? Almost 100 different mushrooms in NYC the winter of 2010-11. How about now?
How many mushrooms can be found over-winter in New York City? How about 50 or so? Or maybe even 100 if you’re counting.
A dozen ascomycetes, 3 jelly fungi, more than a dozen crust and parchment fungi, 30+ polypores, 5 mushrooms with gills, and 3 puffball!s
One of the best and most informative websites about mushrooms is the NEMF.org website. Here you can learn how to identify mushrooms, when and where to find them, and what to do with what you find. In addition to other features on this website, there are 3 articles on winter mushrooms. One discusses 50 or so mushrooms that occur overwinter in northeastern N.A. (and Central Park), along with Google Images. Photos of actual collections made in NYC are being put on this website now.
Some of the mushrooms found last winter in NYC….those found, so far, this winter (2012) are in bold; anything new is so noted…..
ASCOS
Black Knot of Cherry (Apiosporina morbosa)
Biscuit batter (Biscogniauxia atropunctata)
Bisporella citrina ? (new – 2012)
Chlorociboria aeruginascens (new – 2012)
Cramp Balls (Daldinia concentrica)
Smooth Black Crust (Diatrype stigma)
Bright Yellow Crust (Hypocrea sulphurea)
Carbon Cushion (Kretschmaria {Ustulina] deusta)
Dead Man’s Fingers (Xylaria polymorpha)
a tiny Xylaria sp. on a log
Common Coral Spot (Amphilogia gyrosa)
Orange-brown Carbon Balls (Hypoxylon fragiforme)
Hypoxylon howeianum (new – 2012)
Black Bumps (Hypoxylon spp.)
Stalked Hairy Fairy cup (Dasyschphus virgineus)
tiny black fungus on Trichaptum biforme (Phaeocalicium polyporaeum)
Penicillium mold on Polyporus squamosus
Mycosphaerella punctiformis (new – 2012)
Mollisia sp.
JELLIES
Wood-ear (Auricularia auricula)
Exidia nucleata (new! 2012)
Black Jelly (Exidia recisa)
Yellow Witch’s Butter (Tremella mesenterica)
PUFFBALLS & LOOK-ALIKES
Giant Puffball (Calvatia gigantea)
Pear-shaped Puffball (Lycoperdon pyriforme)
False Puffball (Scleroderma sp.)
Barometer Earthstar (Astraeus hygrometricus)
Bird’s Nest Fungus (Cyathus olla)
GILLED & GILL-LIKE MUSHROOMS
Armillaria mellea
Oyster Mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus)
Late Oyster Mushroom (Panellus serotinus)
Luminescent Panellus (Panellus stipticus)
Mock Oyster (Phyllotopsis nidulans)
Split-gill (Schizophyllum commune)
Crinkle Gill (Plicaturopsis crispa)
Bitter False Oyster (Lelntinellus ursinus)
Winter Crep (Crepidotus sp.)
Wild Enoki (Flammulina velutipes)
Deadly Galerina (Galerina autumnalis)
Psathyrella sp. (new – 2012)
Elm Oyster (Hypsizygus ulmarius) – new (2012)
“Collybia kauffmanii” (new 2012)
CRUST AND PARCHMENT FUNGI
Hymenochaete rubiginosa (new 2012)
Phlebia incarnata (new – 2012)
Trembling Merulius (Phlebia tremellosa)
Orange Radiating Crust (Phlebia radiata)
Orange cord Toothed Crust (Phanerochaete chrysorhiza)
Orange Toothed Crust (Steccherinum ochraceum)
Small, smooth Parchment (Stereum complicatum)
Hairy Yellow Parchment (Stereum hirsutum)
False Turkey-tail (Stereum ostrea)
Stereum striatum (new – 2012)
Ceramic Tile Parchment (Xylobolus frustulatus)
Smooth Oak ‘Cup’-crust (Aleurodiscus oakesii)
Corticium cf roseum
Peniophora albobadia
Peniophora spp.
stereoid fungus, white outside, brown hymenium
stereoid fungus, white outside, purple hymenium
White Crust on conifers (Phlebiopsis gigantea)
Cream cushions (Cystidiellum sp.)
others only tentatively identified as yet…..
Tomentella terrestris (new – 2012)
Cylindrobasidium laeve (new – 2012)
POLYPORES
Orange Poroid Crust (Ceriporia spissa)
Flat Maze (Daedaleopsis confragosa
Charcoal gray pore (Bjerkandera adusta)
Hexagonal-pored Polypore (Favolus alveolaris)
Artist’s Conk (Ganoderma applanatum)
Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum)
Curtis’s Ganoderma (Ganoderma curtisii)
Orange-brown gilled polypore (Gloeophyllum sepiarium)
jelly-like polypore (Gloeoporus dichrous)
Gilled polypore (Lenzites betulina)
Brown-toohed Crust (Hydnochaete olivacea)
Inonotus hispidus (new – 2012)
White-toothed Crust (Irpex lacteus)
Resinous Polypore (Ischnoderma resinosum)
Chicken Mushroom (Laetiporus sulphureus)
White-tan poroid crust (Perenniporia medulla-panis) ?
Mustard Flesh Shelf (Phellinus gilvus)
Gray-brown crust Phellinus (Phellinus punctatus)
Locust Cracked Cap (Phellinus robiniae = P. rimosus)
Dryad’s Saddle (Polyporus squamosus)
Winter Polypore (Polyporus brumalis)
Cinnabar Polypore (Pycnoporus cinnabarinus)
Little Nest Polypore (Trametes conchifer)
Trametes elegans
Turkey-tail (Trametes versicolor)
Hairy White Trametes (Trametes hirsuta)
Purple-edge Toothed Polypore (Trichaptum biforme)
White Cheese Polypore (Tyromyces chioneus)
Yellow poroid crust (Junghuhnia nitida)
RUST FUNGI
Gymnosporangium juniperi-virgininiae
MYXOMYCETES
Metatrichia vesparium (new – 2012)
Physarum diderma (new – 2012)
Trichia sp. (new – 2012)
networkedorganisms.org (aka ProjectNoah.org) a good photo link to use
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An all-taxa website called networkedorganisms.org offers a way for you to put online all your interesting photos of mushrooms, plants, and animals. Whatever organisms I may be mentioning on this website I’ll try to include photos, but photos will also be available on other websites, like networkedorganisms.org. A mushroom website, NEMF.org, also carries many of my photos, keys, and stories. |
A new beginning for me in the Electronic Age
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Thanks to Graham Steinruck this is up and running. Now let’s see what this can become. |
