Mushroom Madness
October 30, 2010
A Friends of Fresh Pond Reservation Program and Fungus Survey
Photos clockwise from top left:
1.Participants observe a wealth of wood-decomposing fungi on the fallen limb of a large American beech in the woods behind Neville Place.
2. Walk leader, mycologist Lawrence Millman, is holding a large Giant puffball (Calvatia gigantea) that had been broken from its base and was lying near the fence.
3. Velvet foot or Winter mushroom(Flammulina velutipes)
4. Small white mushrooms, not identified
5. Fly agaric (Aminita muscaria), a toxic mushroom
6. Yellow-green cup (Chlorociboria chlora) found growing on the underside of a log
MUSHROOM MADNESS SPECIES LIST
FRESH POND RESERVATION TOTAL SPECIES LIST, 2005 - PRESENT