Our first two walks of the month of August were very successful for finding edibles as well as interesting and beautiful non-edibles. Among our finds are the following: Amanita brunnescens v. brunesscens, Amanita brunnescens v. alba; Amanita rubescens; Amanita flavorubescnes; Amanita flavoconia; Amanita vaginata; Amanita virosa; Boletus bicolor; Boletus auripes var. aurrissimus; Boletus auriporus; Boletus longicurvipes; Boletus sensibilis; Boletus subglabripes; Boletus subvelutipes; Boletus variipes; Gyroporus casteneus; Retiboletus griseus, Retiboletus ornatipes; Strobilomyces floccopus; Tylopilus felleus; Tylopilus plumbeoviolaceus; Xanthoconium affine v. maculatus; Xanthoconium seperans; Cantharellus minor; Cantharellus cinnabarinus; Cantharellus cibarius; Cantharellus lateritius; Craterellus fallax; Crepidotus mollis; Cortinarius alboviolaceus; Cortinarius iodes; Cortinarius semisanguineus; Cortinarius sp.; Dacrymyces palmatus; Entoloma strictia; Gymnopilus sp.; Hygrocybe sp.; Hypomyces chrysospermus; Lactarius hygrophoroides; Lactarius luteolus; Lactarius piperatus; Lactarius vinaceorufescens; Laetiporus sulphureus; Leotia lubrica; Marasmiellus nigripes; Marasmius rotula; Ramaria formosa; Russula brevipes; Russula silvicola; Russula paludosa; Russula variata; Tremellodendron pallidum; Hydnellum scrobiculatum; Sarcodon imbricatus

COMA FORAY
This year’s COMA’s Clark Rogerson Foray was a huge success - despite the rain!
Our mycologists were Dr. Roz Lowen, amanita expert Rod Tulloss, Leon Shernoff, Noah Siegel, John Plischke and Bill Yule. Our evening programs and the Sunday morning ‘Walk Aroud the Tables’ were all well received. The marshmallow roast and auction on Saturday evening were great fun. Joe and Kathy Brandt with assistance from Lisa Solomon, Skip Taliaferro, JJ Murphy, Lou Tartaro, Kathy Americo , Damon Brunnette, Kira and several other volunteers created many delicious dishes for mycophagy on both Friday and Saturday. As always, the Brandt’s food was a big hit with everyone.
Foray participants hailed from Washington State, Washington, D.C., Virginia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Michigan, Connecticut and New York. We found over 300 different species of mushrooms!