PROSPECT PARK, BROOKLYN
Scutellinia scutellata (Eye-lash Peziza)
Cyathus striatus (Bird’s Nest fungus)
Fistulina hepatica (Beefsteak Mushroom)
Coprinus cf micaceus (Mica Cap Inky Cap
Pleurotus ostreatus (Oyster Mushroom)
Yellow Wine Caps (Stropharia rugosoannulata)
Clitocybe nuda (Blewit)
Trametes versicolor (Turkey-tail Polypore)
Ethan holding two large but old Calvatia gigantea (Giant Puffball)
Tremella aurantia (Witches’ Butter) parasitizing Stereum hirsutum (a parchment fungus)
Prospect Park is 585 acres of lawns and woodlands. The best mushroom hunting area is in the wooded area in the southeastern part of the park.
New York Mycological Society
Prospect Park, Brooklyn
Prospect Park W, Parkside Ave. bet. Flatbush Ave., Ocean Ave. and Prospect Park SW, Brooklyn
Acres: 526.25
Mushroom species recorded to date: approx. 150
Designed and constructed over a thirty-year period (1865-1895) by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the masterminds behind Central Park, Prospect Park has blossomed into a premiere destination for Brooklyn visitors and residents alike. Widely known for its intricate manmade watercourse (wetlands) and its trees, the bulk of Brooklyn’s remaining indigenous forest, the park is a highly functional green space. [NYC Parks]
Note on names, collections and photographs:
There are no common names for most mushrooms. The scientific names used here are those that can be found in most field guides, like the Audubon guide.
There has not been any systematic attempt to collect and preserve specimens of these mushrooms. Photographs have been taken of many of the mushrooms found on these walks and they will be available sometime soon on the NYMS website.
1 – 11/13/10
2 – 2/20/11…….30+ species
3 – 5/28/11………40+ species
4 – 11/13/11……..24 species
5 – 2/25/12………..50 species
6 – 5/12/12
7 – 1/6/13……….35 specie
8 – 3/3/13….35 species
9 – 6/15/13
10 – 10/14/13………..too dry (persimmons ripe! & Szechuan peppercorns)
11 – 4/19/14……………..40 species
12 – 11/29/14………..70 species
13 – 3/22/15…not included yet
14 – 5/31/15 [Despite NO RAIN for more than a month, we found more than 50 species, including 8 new for the park!]
15 – 9/27/15 / Despite NO RAIN for more than a month, we found about 30 species…..(not included below yet)
16 – 12/20/15……more than 80 species identified…..(not included yet)
17 – 3/6/16…….about 60 species identified….(not included yet)
18 – 11/19…………45 species
19 – 1/14/17………60 species
20 – 3/5/17………..50 species
21 – 6/3/17…………70+ species
PROSPECT PARK, BROOKLYN…….About 200 species identified, so far (2017)
ASCOMYCETES
Annulohypoxylon truncatum
Apiosporina morbosa
Ascocoryne cylichnium
Biscogniauxia atropunctata
Biscogniauxia marginata
Bisporella citrina
Byssosphaeria rhodonphala (2/5/17)
Camarops petersii
Camillea punctulata (1/14/17)
Chromelosporium sp.
Coccomyces coronatus
Cosmospora on Nectria episphaeria ?
Dactylospora stygia
Daldinia concentrica
Diaporthe aerostata ?
Diatrype stigma
Diatrypella sp. ?
Endothia gyrosa
Erysiphaceae
Eutypella scoparia
Eutypella spinosa ?
Hypocrea citrina
Hypocrea sulphurea
Hypomyces aurantius
Hypoxylon fragiforme
Hypoxylon rubiginosum
Hypoxylon spp.
Kretzschmaria deusta
Lasiosphaeria sp. ?
Lophodermium sp.
Mollisia cinerea
Mollisia discolor
Nectria cinnabarina
Nectriaceae
Orbilia sp.
Patellaria atrata
Peziza badia complex
Peziza sp. (large, brown)
Peziza sp. (small, tan)
Phaeocalicium polyporaeum
Polycephalomyces tomentosus
Rosellinia corticium
Rosellinia subiculata
Scutellinia scutellata
Trichoderma on Ganoderma lucidum
Xylaria cubensis
Xylaria liquidambar
Xylaria polymorpha
Penicillium sp. on old polypore
JELLY FUNGI
Auricularia auricula
Calocybe cornea
Exidia glandulosa
Exidia recisa
Myxarium nucleatum
Tremella mesenterica
CORALS and TOOTH FUNGI
Clavicorona pyxidata
CRUST and PARCHMENT FUNGI
Athelia sp.
Botryobasidium aureum
Chondrostereum purpureum
Corticium roseum
Cylindrobasidium laeve
Dichostereum effuscatum?
Fibrodontia gossypina ?
Hydnochaete olivacea
Hyphodontia quercina
Peniophora albobadia
Peniophora cinerea
Peniophora incarnata
Peniophora sambuci
Phanerochaete chrysorhiza
Phlebia tremellosa
Plicaturopsis crispa
Punctularia strigosozonata
? Radulomyces copelandii ?
Steccherinum ochraceum
Stereum complicatum
Stereum hirsutum
Stereum ostrea
Stereum subtomentosum ?
Tomentella sp.
Vararia sp.
Xylobolus frustulatus
Resupinate (white and purple)
POLYPORES
Abortiporus biennis
Antrodia albida ?
Antrodia malicola
Bjerkandera adusta
Cerrena unicolor
Daedalea quercina
Daedaleopsis confragosa
Favolus alveolaris
Fistulina hepatica
Fomitopsis spraguei
Ganoderma applanatum
Ganoderma curtisii
Ganoderma lucidum (sessile)
Gloeoporus dichrous
Grifola frondosa
Irpex lacteus
Ischnoderma resinosum
Laetiporus sulphureus
Lenzites betulina
Oxyporus populinus ?
Perenniporia sp.
Phellinus gilvus
Phellinus cf punctatus
Phellinus rimosus
Phellinus sp. (large brackets)
Phellinus sp.
Polyporus brumalis
Polyporus squamosus
Porodisculus pendulus
Pycnoporus cinnabarinus
Schizopora paradoxa ?
Spongipellis pachyodon
Trametes conchifer
Trametes elegans (gibbosa)
Trametes hirsuta
Trametes versicolor
Trichaptum biforme
Tyromyces chioneus
Poroid resupinate
BOLETES
Boletus chrysenteron
GILLED MUSHROOMS
Agaricus cf arvensis
Agaricus cf silvicola (Kay, 9/27/15)
Agrocybe dura
Agrocybe erebia
Agrocybe pediades
Amanita sp.
Armillaria mellea rhizomorphs
Clitocybe nuda
Conocybe cf tenera
Coprinus atramentarius
Coprinus micaceus
Coprinus quadrifidus
Coprinus radians
Crepidotus sp.
Flammulina velutipes
Hypholoma fasciculare
Hypholoma sublateritium
Gymnopilus ? (on white pine)
Inocybe sp.
Lentinellus ursinus
Marasmiellus candidus (2016)
Marasmiellus sp.
Marasmius rotula
Mycena galericulata
Mycena spp.
Panellus stipticus
Phylotopsis nidulans
Pleurotus ostreatus
Pleurotus pulmonarius
Plicaturopsis crispa
Pluteus cervinus
Psathyrella sp.
Rhodocollybia butyracea
Schizophyllum commune
Stropharia rugosoannulata
Stropharia rugosoannulata (yellow)
Schizophyllum commune
Tubaaria furfuracea
Volvopluteus gloiocephalus
x (brown spored)
CYPHELLOID FUNGI
Merismodes sp. (12/20/15 and 3/6/16)
GASTEROMYCETES
Calvatia gigantea
Crucibulum laeve
Cyathus striatus
Lycoperdon pyriforme
Phalloid egg
RUST FUNGI
Gymnoconia nitens (Rubus Rust)
ZYGOMYCETES
Sp. (on a slug?)
MYXOMYCETES
Arcyria cinerea
Arcyria denudata ?
Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa
Cribraria argillacea
para. by Polycephalomyces tomentosa
Fuligo septica
Hemitrichia calyculata
Hemitrichia clavata
Lycogala epidendrum
Metatrichia vesparium
Oligonema flavidum
Physarum nutans
Physarum polycephalum
Reticularia (Enteridium) splendens
Stemonitis sp.
Trichia sp.
- Oyster mushroom
- Lenzites (Trametes) elegans
- Bjerkandera adusta
- Peziza sp.
- Polyporus squamosus
- Flammulina velutipes
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