This was a beautiful day and a many COMA amateur mycologists joined the search for mushrooms and to enjoy the delicious offerings of our walk leader and gracious host, Keith Davis and his family.
Here is the list of the fungi we discovered on our two hour hike in the mixed woodlands surrounding Deerfield Ponds and the gorgeous flower and vegetable gardens of the Davis home:
Amanita crenulata, Amanita virosa, Clitocybe odora, Hygrophorus cantharellus, Lactarius vinaceorufescens, Psathyrella velutina, Russula sp., Tricholomopsis rutilans
Leccinum aurantiacum
Clavulina cristata, Ramaria stricta
Ganoderma applanatum, Meripilus giganteus, Oxyporus populinus, Polyporus badius, Polyporus elegans, Stereum ostrea, Trichaptum abietinum, Trametes versicolor, Tyromyces chioneus
Dacrymyces palmatus
Geastrum fimbriatum, Geastrum triplex, Phallus ravenelii, Scleroderma citrnum
Scutellinia scutellata
Chlorociboria aeriginascens, Daldinia concentrica, Ustulina deusta, Xylaria polymorpha

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