Some sturdy-looking morels were still to be found at Tallman Mt. SP on Saturday, though this is probably the end of the season for this edible. Other mushrooms found at the park included the beautiful orange Mycena leiana with its striking reddish gill edges, Polyporus varius - the Black-footed Polypore, Psyathrella rugocephala, and the waxy cap Hygrocybe flavescens. At Turkey Mt. there was what I believe is Agrocybe praecox on fallen logs. It was in fact the predominant mushroom. Too bad its not edible. We also found the common slime molds Fuligo septica and and Lycogala epidendrum. There were a few Psyathrella hydrophila, also on wood. We found a nice fruiting of Mycena leiana in different stages of maturity all along one fallen log, and a cluster of Mycena galericulata peeping out of a hole on a different log. Several wood-fruiting Tricholomopsis platyphylla were up, also growing on wood. The pores of a Dryad Saddle, Polyporus squamosus, also a wood-decaying fungi, was discovered to be infested with insects and their larvae, though the context was clean. A couple of Peziza badioconfusa were also found. Since Lis Reinitz spotted the majority of fungi, our walk leader, Andrew Piotrowski rewarded herwith a bar of chocolate!
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