It was a cool windy day, but lots of warm new friends joined some regular COMA members for an educational fungi identification walk at Sylvan Glen Preserve. The new folks were very observant so we were able to find a number of small corals under the pines, as well as a few more spectacular fungi like a cluster of oysters which George managed to knock free from a wound high up in a shagbark hickory.

Among the mushrooms found were the following:
ASCOMYCETES: Cordyceps ophioglossoides; Hyposylon fragiforme; Hypoxylon spp.; Nectria cinnabarina; Nectria sp.
GILLED MUSHROOMS: Amanita wellsii; Clitocybe clavipes; Coprinus micaceus; Galerina autumnalis; Hygrocybe sp.; Mycena sp.; Marasmius sp.; Panellus stipticus; Panellus serotinus; Plerotus sp.; Tricholoma spp.;
POLYPORES, Crusts and Allies: Fomes fomentarius; Ganoderma applanatum; Irpex lactea; Stereum ostrea; Trichaptum biformis;
JELLIES: Exidia recisa
CORALS: Clavariadelphus pistillaris; Clavulina cinerea; Clavulina cristata; Ramaria botrytis; Ramaria stricta; Ramariopsis kunzei;
GASTEROMYCETES: Lycoperdon perlatum
MYXOMYCETES: Lycogala epidendrum