Around 30 people showed up for the Tallman Mountain walk and collected about 90 species, including some good edibles (e.g., Flammulina velutipes, Pleurotus ostreatus, Hypholoma lateritium, Laetiporus sulphureus, Ischnoderma resinosum). We also found two new species for the NYMS: THREE separate collections of Pluteus aurantiorugosus! NYMS members Kat Moon and Andrew Cannon found it in the Hudson Highlands last week, and Deb Klein found it for the second year in a row in Oyster Bay in late September! This mushroom tends to grown in cavities of trees, which may help explain why we’ve not seen it before (but then again, I always check hollows in trees for Ossicaulis lignatilis and have never seen it). It’s a hard mushroom to miss, with it’s fluorescent orange cap – this is a Pluteus that wants to be seen! The other new fungus for the club is Laxitextum bicolor, collected by Ethan Crenson. It’s a marvelous stereum-like fungus with a bright white hymenium and a dark brown, finely tomentose cap, and soft, delicate flesh. Under the microscope it has gloeocystida upwards of 100 microns long…

*=new to park   **=new to city