Weather: 29 deg C, Sunny

Terrain: Hilly, Steep in the ravine, Dense woods, and well-maintained public trails

Vegetation: Primarily deciduous trees

Mushrooms:

This foray was a mycologist’s paradise – a dream come true! There were simply too many mushrooms to count and between 21 to 40 different types of mushrooms found by the wonderful attendees.

The mushrooms identified include:

• Stinkhorn
• Stinkhorn egg
• Coprinus atamentaria
• Amanita virosa
• Russula grisea
• A hairy oyster
• Polyporus badius
• Lactarius “looking” something?
• Chlorophylum rhacodes
• Cercopemyces crocodilinus (pretty good guess)
• Amanita muscaria,
• Fomes fomentarius
• Ganoderma applanatum
• Hericium coralloides
• Leccinum boreale
• Peziza repanda
• Pholiota squarrosa

There were several more that we had no idea to even guess! A great group of people found such a diversity of mushrooms during this foray. They even spotted a baby owl (he was so cute)!

During this foray, everyone partnered up, so no one got lost, and everyone had a wonderful time. They all said they learned something… At the very least, everyone knows the black-footed polypore now; we found enough of them!