Clifton Park Mushrooms

I have been walking around Clifton Park looking for mushrooms and trying to identify them. I have found a large variety of different mushrooms. Each mushroom that I identified is my best guess based on comparing the mushroom to the pictures in the book, and in some cases doing some additional work like taking a spore print. This is not meant to be a definitive resource for identifying mushrooms as some of my guesses may not be 100% accurate. It is more meant to serve as a place for me to keep track of the variety of mushrooms that can be found in the greater capital region of Albany. I am adding more pictures as I come across new mushrooms. Click on the images for a larger image, or in some cases more detailed information.

Hen of the Woods Grifola frondosa

Chicken Mushroom Laetiporus sulphureus

Shaggy Mane Coprinus comatus

Yellow Morel Morchella esculenta

Oyster Mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus

Golden Oyster Mushroom Pleurotus citrinopileatus

Reishi or Lingzhi mushroom Ganoderma lucidum

Honey Mushroom Armillariella mellea

Meadow Mushroom Agaricus campestris

Painted Suillus Suillus Pictus

Cinnabar-red Chanterelle Cantharellus cinnabarinus

Jack O' Lantern Omphalotus olearius

Black Trumpet Craterellus cornucopioides

Variable Russula Russula variata

Bear's Head Tooth Hericium americanum

Puffballs

Giant Puffball Calvatia gigantea

Chicken Fat Mushroom Suillus americanus

Lactifluus Hygrophoroides Lactifluus hygrophoroides

Resinous Polypore Ischnoderma resinosum

Old Man of the Woods Strobilomyces floccopus

Viscid Violet Cort Cortinarius iodes

Spindle-Shaped Yellow Coral Clavulinopsis fusiformis

Bay Bolete Boletus badius

Orange Mock Oyster Phyllotopsis nidulans

Witches' Butter Tremella mesenterica

Wolf's Milk Lycogala epidendrum

Mossy Maple Polypore Oxyporus populinus

Pigskin Poison Puffball Scleroderma citrinum

Amanita velatipes Amanita velatipes

Emetic Russula Russula emetica

False Coral Tremellodendron pallidum

Shaggy Pholiota Pholiota squarrosa

Deadly Gallerina Galerina autumnalis

Peppery Milky Lactarius piperatusIf this is a Peppery Milky, then the spore print should be white.

White Coral Ramariopsis kunzei

Crowded Parchment Stereum complicatum

Sulphur Tuft Hypholoma fasciculare

Olive Oysterling Panellus serotinus

Pholiota limonella Pholiota limonella

Bear Lentinus Lentinellus ursinus

Unidentified mushrooms

Russula brevipes? Lactarius deceptivus?

Poria?

I saw several mushrooms that looked like this. It almost looks like there is a mold growing on the mushroom. It's likely this is Hypomyces chrysospermus, a mold that grows on Boletes. It goes from white to yellow to red and brown.

Lactarius indigo?

Netted Stinkhorn? Over the course of 14 hours, this mushroom went from a mature stinkhorn with a bright green head to this rotten pile of waste. A bit of rain and a lot of insects got to it during the night. Sadly, I did not get a picture of the mushroom while it was healthy.

This is not a milky cap.

Related Links

* Cornell Mushroom Blog
* NPR Discussion of post-Irene mushrooms
* TED Talks - 6 ways mushrooms can save the world
* More mushrooms identified in the area

Ways to cook mushrooms

* Hungarian Mushroom Soup
* A page rating different mushrooms cooked with varying methods