The weather this Sunday was as good as it was for yesterday's 'extra' walk - clear and even a bit on the cool side for starters. Our guide and walk leader, Steve Rock, gave us a workout to cover a lot of space and hit all the known 'good spots.' Though several of us fell behind a bit a few times, we were all delighted with Steve's choice of venue, which afforded us an opportunity to sample different environments with the promising possibilities for finding a variety of mushrooms, including a Tylopilus alboater, correctly identified by Steve - despite my second-guesses. I brought the specimen home, thereby depriving Steve and his guests from enjoying its nutty flavor, in order to do further research on this magnificent specimen. A mere taste of the flesh - which we could have performed on site - confirmed that this was no bitter tylopilus that might threaten someone's composure with stomach grumblings, etc. Mea culpa. So, if I find a Tylopilus alboater in the near future, I promise to save it for Steve. I should have realized that he knows far more than I about edible boletes! So far this year, this was the best walk yet!
Here is a list of the fungi recorded for this walk:
Todd Osmundson wanted to join us, but was delayed unexpectedly due to the closing of parkwys to Sunday bicycle traffic. He arrived at the Pelton Pond parking lot about a half-hour late and decided to walk around the pond. He saw some of the same fungi we saw - with the addition of a lovely stink horn included in this gallery of images.
Dianna
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MY Name is Magic Marty ia locat to this area and recently retired I just purchased
a hand held digital microscope and greehouse. I hope to develope a learning magic Lecture for children
Any outside interest and informaton would be appreciated.