I am frequently asked to produce a list of mushrooms that can be found in the spring in our area of the northeast. The following checklist as compiled from the COMA spring (April through May) walk collections from 2003 to 2013. It is important to note that a few fungi listed are left over from the previous year, particularly soft annual and hard perennial polypores and crusts, as well as old puffballs. Also, there are undoubtedly a host of other fungi (especially ascomycetes and crusts) that we saw, but weren’t able to identify.
(Photos of these fungi can be found here at FUNGIKINGDOM.NET under the title FUNGI PHOTOS).
Aleuria aurantia, Aracnopeziza auralea, Calocypha fulgens, Chlorociboria aeruginascens, Chlorosplenium chlora, Daldinia concentrica, Dasyscyphus virgineus, Diatrype stigma, Gyromitra korfii, Helvella queletii, Hypocrea sp., Hypoxylon fragiforme, Hypoxylon cf multiforme, Hypoxylon sp., Kretzschmaria deusta, Mitrula elegans, Mitrula lunatospora, Mitrula paludosa, Mollisa cinerea, Morchella americana, Morchella angusticeps, Morchella diminutuva, Morchella semlibra, Peziza badioconfusa, Peziza repanda, Sarcoscypha occidentalis, Xylaria hypoxylon, Xylaria polymorpha
GILLED MUSHROOMS
Agrocybe dura, Agrocybe pediales, Agrocybe praecox, Amanita amerifulva, Chromosera cyanophylla, Coprinellus micaceus, Coprinellus laniger, Coprinopsis lagopus, Coprinus comatus, Crepidotus applanatus, Crepidotus crocophyllus, Entoloma strictius, Entoloma vernum, Flammulina velutipes, Galerina marginata, Gymnopilus sapineus, Gymnopus alkavirens, Gymnopus dryophilus, Gymnopilus sapineus, Hymenopellis furfuracea (Xerula furfuracea), Hymenopellis megalospora (Xerula megalospora), Infundibulicybe squamulosa, Lacrymaria velutina (Psathyrella velutina), Lyophyllum decastes, Marasmiellus praecutus, Marasmius pyrrhocephalus, Marasmius rotula, Megacollybiarodmanii (Tricholomopsis platyphylla), Melanoleuca alboflavida, Micromphale foetidum, Mycena sp., Mycena haematopus, Mycena leiana, Mycena sanguineolenta, Mycena subcaerulea, Neolentinus lepideus, Paneolina foenesecii, Panellus stipticus, Panellus violaceofulvus, Parasola plicatilis, Pholiota aurivella, Pholiota granulosa, Pholiota limonella, Pleurotus ostreatus, Pleurotus pulmonarius, Pluteus cervinus, Psathyrella candoleana, Psathyrella hydrophila, Psathyrella rugocephala, Resupinatus applicatus, Russula atropurpurea, Schizophyllum commune, Stropharia hardii, Stropharia rugosoannulata, Tectella patellaris, Tubaria furfuracea
CORALS
Artomyces pyxidata (Clavicorona pyxidata)
GASTEROMYCETES
Lycoperdon pyriforme
POLYPORES
Coltricia montagnei var. greenei, Cryptoporus volvatus, Daedaleopsis confragosa, Fomes fomentarius, Ganoderma applanatum, Ganoderma lucidum, Ganoderma tsugae, Gloeoporus dichros, Hydnochaete olivacea, Inonotus glomeratus, Inonotus obliquis, Irpex lacteus, Ischnoderma resinosum, Laetiporus sulphureus, Lentinus strigosus (Panus rudus), Lentinus torulosus (Panus conchatus), Oxyporus populinus, Phellinus robiniae (P. rimosus), Polyporus alveolaris, Polyporus varius (P. elegans), Polyporus squamosus, Polyporus umbellatus, Porodisculus pendulus, Royoporus badius (Polyporus badius), Trametes cinnabarinus (Pycnoporus cinnabarinus), Trametes conchifer, Trametes gibbosa, Trametes hirsuta, Trametes versicolor, Trichaptum biforme, Tyromyces chioneus
CRUSTS and PARCHMENT FUNGI
Hymenochaete corrugata, Hymenochaete rubiginosa, Hymenochaete badioferruginea, Hyphodontia quercina, Hyphodontia cf. sambuci, Phanerochaete chrysorhiza, Phlebia sp., Stereum hirsutum, Stereum ostrea, Xylobolus frustulatus
JELLIES
Auricularia auricula, Exidia glandulosa, Exidia nigricans, Exidia recisa, Dacrymyces palmatus, Dacrymyces stillatus, Tremella foliacea, Tremella mesenterica
TOOTHED
Hericium erinaceus
MYXOMYCETES
Arcyria cinerea, Arcyria denudata, Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa, Enteridium lycoperdon, Fuligo sepitica, Linbladia tubulina, Lycogala epidendrum, Lycogala terrestre, Metatrichia vesparium, Stemonitis sp., Tubifera ferruginosa