GREENWOOD CEMETERY……2017
A Preliminary Checklist of Mushrooms…..
About 70 fungi out of hundreds likely to be here!
[Names are primarily those used in The Audubon Guide to North American Mushrooms] [Lincoff]
Classification Outline:
Ascomycetes
Discomycetes (cup fungi)
Pyrenomycetes (flask fungi)
Lichens (Ascomycetes + algae or cyanobact.)
Basidiomycetes
Boletes
Polypores
Gilled Mushrooms
Crust & Parchment Fungi
Puffballs and similar fungi
Jelly Fungi
Cyphelloid Fungi (cuplike but Gilled relatives)
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ASCOMYCETES
Discomycetes
Pyrenomycetes
Annulohypoxylon sp.
(Ceratocystis fagacearum – Oak Wilt –
found on one oak in GC)
Diatrype stigma
Hypomyces chrysospermus
Nectria cinnabarina
Patellaria atrata
Lichens
Cladonia humilis
BASIDIOMYCETES
Boletes
Gyroporus castaneus
Suillus luteus
Xerocomellus chrysenteron
Polypores
Abortiporus biennis
Bjerkandera adusta
Bondarzewia berkelyi
Fomitopsis spraguei
Ganoderma curtisii
Globifomes graveolens
Gloeophyllum sepiarium
Grifola frondosa
Irpex lacteus
Meripilus sumstinei
Phellinus sp.
Poronidulus conchifer
Trametes gibbosa
Trametes hirsuta
Trametes versicolor
Gilled Mushrooms
Agaricus campestris
Agaricus crocodilinus
Agaricus placomyces
Agrocybe pediades
Amanita crenulata
Amanita fulva
Amanita muscaria
Armillaria mellea complex
Chlorophyllum molybdites
Clitocybe nuda
Clitocybe sp.
Coprinus atramentarius
Coprinus micaceus
Coprinus plicatilis
Coprinus variegata
Hohenbuehelia sp.
Lentinellus ursinus
Leucoagaricus naucinus
Marasmius oreades
Megacollybia rodmani
Mycena sp.
Oudemansiella radicata complex
Panellus stipticus
Pholiota sp.
Pluteus sp.
Psathyrella velutina
Resupinatus sp.
Russula sp.
Schizophyllum commune
Crust and Parchment Fungi
Hydnochaete olivacea
Peniphora albobadia
Peniophora cinerea
Plicaturopsis crispa
Stereum complicatum
Stereum hirsutum
Puffballs and similar fungi
Calvatia cyathiformis
Calvatia gigantea
Lycoperdon marginatum
Lycoperdon perlatum
Scleroderma cepa
Scleroderma polyrhizon
Jelly Fungi
Auricularia auricula (americana)
Exidia recisa
Tremella aurantia (mesenterica)
Cyphelloid Fungi
Merismodes fasciculatus
HOW CAN THIS HELP GREENWOOD CEMETERY?
1 Look for and report pathogenic fungi to GC
2 Help develop the biodiversity of this unique land
3 Put fungi on the map of organisms: they are working hard to make what you see sustainable.
Where to find mushrooms in Greenwood Cemetery
1 In Lawns
2 In wood-chip mulch
3 On downed sticks and branches
4 About stumps
5 On living trees
6 On the ground under trees like oaks
7 On the ground under pine trees
8 On other mushrooms
When to find mushrooms in Greenwood Cemetery
1 Year-round for fungi
2 April-June for spring mushrooms
3 June-September for summer mushrooms
4 September-November for fall mushrooms
Are any Greenwood Cemetery mushrooms edible?
Given that you should NEVER eat any wild mushroom RAW, and that they need to be thoroughly cooked to be digestible, and given that edible and poisonous mushrooms can look very similar especially to those untrained to identify them, a cemetery is a curious place to be looking for anything edible!
Given all of the above, there are several good edible mushrooms growing in Greenwood Cemetery, just as there are several poisonous mushrooms.
By all means, enjoy looking for mushrooms here but, please, do not make extra work for the grave-diggers!
