Westchester Gov. Parks Curator Taro Ietaka led this fungi/botany walk, our first of the 2012 season. Thanks to Taro, Damon and Stephanie for identifying mushrooms and plants seen there.

Mushroooms: Hymenochaete rubiginosum, Diatripe stigma, Phellinus gilvus, Exidia glandulosa, Rosalinea sp., Mollisia sp., Trametes conchifer, Trametes hirsuta, Irpex lacteus, Tyromyces chioneus, Daedaleopsis confragosa, Xylobolus frustulatus, Psathyrella sp. Polyporus varius, Thelephora sp.

Plants in Bloom:, Mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum), Dwarf Ginseng (Panax trifolius), Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum), Viola sp.
Field Pussytoes (Antennaria neglecta)

Lichens: Pyrrhospora varians, Lepraria caesiella, Porpidia albocaerulescens

Myxomycetes: Enteridium splendens