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Nov./Dec., 2011 Volume 39 Issue 6
Ohio Mushroom Society
The Mushroom Log
person for TWC, working with Andrea Moore gave an
the Munks to organize our excellent talk and slide show on
Report on The foray. Lynda gave an Fungi in Photographs.
introductory talk about the Amongst the many beautiful
Wilderness history of TWC, its founding and shots which I noted down were
funding support systems and a tiny Mycena luteopalens,
Center Fall the different facilities and trails tucked inside a segment of the
available to us. Shortly after shell of a hickory; Wynnea
Foray 9:30 Pauline Munk outlined the sparasoides, an ascomycete
day’s schedule; at a little after Cauliflower mushroom look-a-
10 am, we gathered into several like; the small red segmented
By Dave Miller
groups. I joined one group of 6 Rhodotus palmatus, a
led by Lynda Price, who knew Phycomyces with its blue-green
On Friday evening, Sept. 30, the territory (I wanted to go iridescent stalks growing on
about a dozen loyal, where there were some older dung (of deer?); a good edible
enthusiastic members and trees). We drove the short cooking in a fry pan;
friends met at the Game Day distance to the Pioneer Path Chantarelle pancakes; false
Grill (Sports Bar) in Strasburg trail, where there had been morels; the tiny brown hair-like
for dinner, drinks, and homes before TWC was slime mold, Stemonitis; and
conviviality, and of course, founded. And plenty of very Pleurotus dryinus. There was a
sharing our good fortune at the mature trees. Finley Lahmers, lot of energetic give-and-take,
rainy fall weather we were an OMS and TWC member especially concerning names
having. from nearby Massillon and who and identities, with Walt
thus frequents the TWC, led a Sturgeon and Joe Strong as
OMS members, The Wilderness group of 5, around the short major contributors. Andrea
Center (hereafter known as the loop of the Wilderness Walk . ended with a slide of a collage
TWC) members, and others We returned to TWC just before of various fungi, among which
convened at 9 am at the noon, with heavy baskets of were the Bradley (Lactarius
Interpretive Building of TWC. fungi, spread them out on the volemus) red chantarelle,
We registered in the Buckeye tables in the Trillium Room, and (Cantharellus cinnabarinus),
Auditorium for coffee, breakfast Walt went to work ID’ing and Black Trumpets (Cantharellus
goodies, and a chance to look labeling the paper plates with infundibuliformis), oysters
over some fungi several had their names. (Pleurotus ostreatus), and sulfur
brought with them. It had been shelf (Laetiporus sulfureus),a
raining lightly earlier so the We all enjoyed a great potluck colorful enough group to make
woods were damp, but not a provided by our members and your mouth water. She also
problem for us rugged types! especially Sharon Greenberg, related a heartbreaking tale of
The turnout included 35 OMS with help by Judy Doyle, Cathy finding virtually no morels one
members and 6 non-members. Pepera, et. al. After eating, we spring, until, at the tail end of
had some free time to get the season, she thought to look
Critical to the planning and acquainted with the great in her next-door neighbor’s lot,
logistics of this Foray, Lynda facilities at TWC, including their only to find some of the largest
Price acted as the liaison gift shop and various displays. morels she’d ever seen, but
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they were already well on their for an excellent dinner with Amanita muscaria var.
way to morel heaven! A head convivial company. guessowii
count of Andrea’s audience The next day, some 15 loyal Amanita vaginata complex
came to 55; obviously, a lot OMS members plus Lynda Ampulloclitocybe clavipes
more people came in to see Price of TWC, reconvened. A Armillaria solidipes
what all the fuss was about and small group took another foray Camarophyllus pratensis
were treated to her talk. (such was the plentitude of (ARORA) = Hygrocybe
fungi!). The others finished Hygrophorus in (BESSETTE)
organizing the specimens, Chlorophyllum rachodes
collected the paper plates with Clitocybe gibba
names on them, cleaned the Clitocybe nuda / Lepista nuda
tables off, and struggled to Clitocybe odora
finish off the left-overs from Clitocybe robusta
yesterday’s lunch. I saved Clitocybe subconnexa
some interesting specimens to Coprinopsis atramentarius
take back for my Oberlin Coprinus comatus
students to see, and Lynda Coprinellus micaceus
Three Major Players at the Price took notes and saved Coprinellis sp.
TWC: Lynda Price with a some fungi for her Docent Cortinarius distans
Blewit, Walt Sturgeon with a class. Pete and Pauline Munk Crepidotus applanatus
Shaggy Parasol, and Andrea entertained us by playing a CD Crepidotus crocophyllus
Moore with a Fly Agaric edited by Steve Roberts called Cyptotrana asprata
Mushroom World. Featured Entoloma abortivum—both
Several other groups went out were songs about the joys of aborted and normal forms
on afternoon forays, while I mushroom collecting. I took Entoloma lividium AUDUBON
stayed in and helped out with one back to Oberlin to play to Entoloma violacea
the ID’ing as well as asking my students and it was a big hit! Gymnopus subnudus ROODY
Walt’s opinion of several Pauline has three more copies Hygrocybe conica
unusual (for me) finds I’d been for sale at a greatly reduced Humidicutis marginata var.
making back in Lorain Co. Later price of $10! marginata
in the pm Walt gave a table Hygrocybe miniata ARORA,
walk, noting some interesting The group disbanded about 1 AUDUBON
finds. He informed me that the pm or so. A very successful Hymenopellis furfuracea =
perennial orphan, Xerula foray both in terms of numbers Xerula in BESSETTE
furfuracea, has yet another new of specimens collected and the Hypholoma lateritium
moniker, Hymenopellus excellent facilities provided by Inocybe calamistrata ROODY
furfuracea. Also Polyporus TWC. We’ll be back, I’m sure! Inocybe lilacina AUDUBON
badius (nee P. picipes) is now Laccaria amethystina
Royoporus badius! Species List from Laccaria ochropurpurea
Laccaria sp.
The Wilderness Lactarius cinereus var.
Center fagetorum
Lactarius vinaceorufescens
Lentinellus ursinus
By Pauline Munk and Lepiota aspera
Walt Sturgeon Lepiota clypeolaria
Lepiota cortinarius
Agarics Lepiota sp.
Leptonia sp.
Agaricus abruptibulbus Leratiomyces squamosus
Walt at his Table Walk, this pix
Agaricus placomyces var.thrausta
doesn’t do justice to the number
Agrocybe pediades Lyophyllum sp.
of specimens we all found!
Agrocybe erebia Marasmius rotula
Amanita bisporigera Marasmius siccus
Amanita brunnescens Marasmius strictipes
At about 6 pm we retired to
Amanita citrina var. lavendula
Malcuit’s Tavern in Strasburg
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Mycena haematopus…bleeding Scleroderma cepa forest burned approximately a
mycena S. citrina year and a half ago. Visibly
Mycena inclinata notable was the decreased
Mycena iodioleus Polypores depth of leaf litter. We hoped
Mycena leaiana Daedalea quercina this might make the Hens
Mycena luteopallens Daedaleopsis confragosa (Grifola frondosa) more visible,
Mycena sp. Ganoderma applanatum but it was not to be! The
Ossicalis lignatilis Gloephyllum sepiarium consolation was several nice
Pholiota alnicola Grifola frondosa Beefsteak mushrooms
Pholiota aurivella Ishnoderma resinosum (Fistulina hepatica) which
Pholiota lenta Laetiporus sulfureus everyone had an opportunity to
Pholiota squarrosoides Phellinus gilvus try. Another interesting thing
Pleurotus ostreatus Polyporus alveolaris was that even though many of
Prunulus (Mycena) pura Polyorus brumalis the large, older hardwood trees
Psathyrella delineata P. mori appeared to survive the fire, the
Psathyrella echiniceps Royoporus(Polyporus) badius charred parts of the trunks were
Psathyrella sp. Stereum complicatum covered with Violet toothed
Pseudoclitocybe cyathiformis S.ostrea polypore (Trichaptum biformis.)
Rhodocollybia maculata Stereum sp, Over 60 specimens were
ARORA Trametes elegans observed or collected.
Rhodocybe mundula T. hirsuta
Rickenella fibula T. versicolor Martha Bishop and I compiled
Tricholomopsis rutilans Postia caesia the following list. I will confess,
Tricholoma sejunctum Tyromyces chionius it is not 100% complete, as
Tricholoma subresplendens there were a few things we
Teeth Fungi were unsure of!
Ascomycetes Climacodon septentrionale
Coral species 2 Agaricus sp.
Aleuria aurantica Hericium americanum Amanita bisporigera
Bisporella citrina H. erinaceus Amanita cokeri
Camarops petersii Hydnellum sp. Armillaria caligata
Daldinia concentrica Armillaria mellea
Hypomyces hyalinus Slime Molds & Jellies Armillaria tabescens
H. microspermus Bisporella citrina
Nectria cinnabarina Lycogala epidendron=Wolf’s Boletus innixus
Peziza sp. Milk Slime Boletus pulverulentus
Scorias spongiosa Tremella mesenterica 3 Boletus sp.
Scutellina scutellata Cantharellus cibarius
Xylaria polymorpha Tar Hollow Mini Foray Cantharellus miniatus
By Andrea Moore Clavulinopsis fusiformis
Boletes September 17, 2011 Clitocybe odora
Clitocybe sp.
Boletus chrysenteron Our small group of seven hikers Coprinellus micaceus
Chalciporus piperatus met at Young’s Market in 4 Cortinarius sp.
Gyrodon merulioides Laurelville (Hocking County) Entoloma abortivum
Gyroporus castaneus and then drove approximately 8 Favolus alveolaris
Suillus americanus miles to Tar Hollow State Park. Fistulina hepatica
S. granulatus The weather was totally perfect Hydnellum concrescens
Tylopilus felleus for hiking, and the weather the Hydnellum spongiosipes
previous week had included lots Hygrocybe flavescens
Gasteromycetes of rain and temperature Hygrocybe sp.
Calvatia craniformis fluctuations. Laccaria laccata
Crucibulum laeve Laccaria ochropurpurea
Lycoperdon perlatum We hiked the Logan Trail on the 2 Lactarius sp.
L. pyriforme side of the park where Laetiporus sulphureus
Mutinus elegans hundreds of acres of hardwood Leccinum sp.
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Lenzites betulina He dispensed his wisdom as Amanita citrina var. lavendula
Lycogala epidendrum usual and I think you’ll be Amanita muscaria var. glessonii
Lycoperdon perlatum impressed by all the name Armillaria ostoyae
Lycoperdon pyriforme changes. Walt also gave his Bisporella citrina
Macrolepiota procera usual excellent table walk, Camarophyllus pratensis
Marasmius siccus emphasizing the difference Camarops petersii
Marasmius strictipes between the edible Armillaria- Clavaria rubicundula
Mycena epiterigera Honey Mushrooms and Clavaria sp.
Mycena galericulata poisonous Galerina autumnalis Clitocybe (Lepista) nuda
Mycena haematopus look-a-likes. A little later, we Clitocybe clavipes
Mycena leaiana disbanded just after 1 pm. Clitocybe robusta
Naematoloma fasciculare Climacodon septentrionale
Noleanea murraii The following paragraph, Coprinopsis atramentarius
Omphalotus olearius based on part of Walt’s talk, Coprinellus micaeus
Panellus stipticus was taken from an article Cyathus striatus
Phlebia radiata written by Anoja and Derek Daedaleopsis confragosa
Pleurotus ostreatus Giles in the Oct.-Dec., 2011 Daldinia concentrica
Prunulus (Mycena) pura issue of Mycelium, the Entoloma abortivum
Pyncnoporus cinnabarinus Newsletter of the Mycol. Soc. of Entoloma sp.
Ramaria aurea Toronto, which does his Gymnopus butyracea
Ramaria formosa narrative more justice than my Helvella macropus
Ramaria sp. sketchy notes and memory ever Hericium americanum
Ramaria stricta could. Hygrocybe cantharellus
Trametes elegans Hygrocybe marginata
Trametes versicolor “Walt also spoke about an Hypholoma lateritum
Trichaptum biforme interesting relationship of 2 Hypsizygus tessulatus
Tylopilus badius wasps with Cerrena unicolor. Inocybe tahquamenonensis
Tyromyces caesius The mystique of this easily Ischnoderma resinosum
Tyromyces chioneus overlooked ‘ho hum’ polypore is Laccaria amethystina
Tremella mesenterica its fascinating relationship with Laccaria laccata
Xerula furfuracea two wasps; the Horntail wasp Lactarius cinereus var.
Xylaria polymorpha and the Ichneumon wasp. A fagetorum
complex story but here is the Lactarius chelidonium
basic plot. The fungi spores Leratiomyces thrausta
Hiram Mini-Foray on infiltrate the ovipositor of the =Psilocybe and Stropharia
October 8 Horntail wood boring wasp. Leucopholiota decorosa
They in turn germinate when Marasmius pyrrhocephalus
By Dave Miller the wasp eggs are laid. The Mutinus elegans
resulting mycelium becomes Mycena haematopus
food for the larvae of the Mycena leaiana
A large group of members and horntail wasp. The Ichneumon Mycena luteopallens
non-members plus a Non- wasp is parasitic on horntail Mycena sp.
Vascular Plant Class from larvae and thus becomes a Panellus serotinus
Hiram College, met on a predator controlling Horntail Phallus ravenelli
beautiful sunny mild fall wasp populations. The Phlebia tremellosa
morning to explore the woods mycological moral of the story is Phellinus gilvus
around the J. H. Barrows Field that pheromones emitted by Pholiota alnicola
Station. Four groups set off in Cerrena unicolor assist the Pholiota aurivella
various directions to see what Ichneumon wasp in locating the Physarum polycephalum
the recent plentiful rains had larvae usually deeply buried in Pleurotus dryinus
brought forth. After a beeches.” Polyporus badius
productive search of an hour Polyporus leptocephalus
and a half’s duration, we Polyporus radicatus
reconvened around the picnic Hiram Species List
Prunulus (Mycena) pura
tables to set out our finds and Psathyrella sp.
turn to Walt once more to help By Pauline Munk Ramariopsis kunzei
us identify what we’d collected. Agrocybe erebia
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Russula sp. Last summer we spread a fresh beautiful, beautiful bark--next
Sarcoscypha occidentalis batch of beauty bark on our year.
Scleroderma citrinum garden. It came from a dump
Scutellinia scutellata truck from a landscaping supply Ed. Note: several years ago
Stereum complicatum yard, which got it from a sawmill Marie and I harvested a bounty
Stereum ostrea or barking operation, which got of morels from some newly
Stropharia rugosa-annulata it from a magical glade where bark-mulched beds on the
Suillus americanus morel spores drift around on the Oberlin campus. Unfortunately
Suillus granulatus breeze and nestle in the cracks there was no repeat
Suillus grevillei of tree bark. performance the next year or
Trametes elegans any year thereafter.
Trametes versicolor All I know is that, sometimes,
Tyromyces chioneus the first year after you spread
Trichaptum biforme IS MUTATED FUNGUS
beauty bark, morels pop up in
Xerula furfuracea places where morels wouldn't KILLING AMERICAN
Xylaria polymorpha normally pop up. BATS?
When we first found them, the By Andy Coghlan
THE LEGEND OF morning after a dousing rain,
GLORIOUS BEAUTY we remembered that we had New Scientist, May 24, 2011
BARK MUSHROOMS split this truckload of beauty
bark with our neighbors, Jack A fungus blamed for killing
and Claire. more than a million bats in the
By Jim Kershner
US since 2006 has been found
"We should go tell Jack and to differ only slightly from an
The Spokesman-Review, May Claire to look in their garden," apparently harmless European
21, 2011 my wife, Carol, said. "I'll bet version. The minor genetic
they have some mushrooms, differences could hold the key
We went morel mushroom too." to preventing future deaths.
hunting three times this week.
Yeah, it's been grueling. "Actually," I said. "Let's not be Alternatively, European bats
hasty. Let's think this through. may have been exposed to the
Had to walk out the back door, Before we mention anything to virus longer and evolved
take a couple steps to the them, why don't I just go over resistance.
garden, load up with morels, there and, you know, scout out
and walk all the way back into the situation first?" Jeffrey Foster at Northern
the house. Arizona University in Flagstaff,
Carol glowered at me, arms and colleagues, compared the
We can hardly believe our luck. crossed. She asked me what genomes of strains of
We've been having a bodacious lame excuse I planned to spout Geomyces destructans infecting
morel harvest right in our own after they found me lurking in US and European bats and
city yard. their back garden, a knife in one found that the strain thought to
hand and a basket in the other. cause lethal "white nose
Dinner has been pretty easy syndrome" (WNS) in the US is
around our house. A couple of So, yes, we went ahead and almost identical to one that is
days ago, we had morels told Jack and Claire. Tums out, harmless to bats in Europe.
sauteed in butter. Yesterday we they were already on top of the
had morel-asparagus-cream situation. Dinner at their house "There were very few
sauce with rigatoni. Today? I the night before had been morel mutational differences between
don't know. A nice bowl of pizza. the North American and
morel risotto sounds nice. European samples, strongly
Clearly, this had been one ultra- suggesting they're related,"
And we owe it all to beauty special batch of beauty bark. says Foster. The team
bark. One thing's for sure, I'm buying presented their preliminary
another load of that bark--that results last week at a
6 The Mushroom Log
conference in Little Rock, By Susan Milius Science a decade, the organisms (so
Arkansas. News, May 12,2011 far) won't grow in labs. That in
itself isn't astounding for fungi,
If it is the DNA differences Images of little dots, some which can be difficult to culture.
making the US version of the wriggling a skinny tail, give
fungus virulent, then finding a scientists a first glimpse of a (Ed. Note: many parasitic fungi
treatment will be easier than if vast swath of the oldest, and are hard or impossible to grow
the reason for the transatlantic perhaps oddest, fungal group in pure culture. These have
difference is that European bats alive today. been termed obligate parasites.
have evolved resistance, says With increasingly sophisticated
Foster. The first views suggest that, and complex mixtures of
unlike any other fungi known, nutrients being formulated,
The answer should come from these might live as essentially these are becoming amenable
Craig Willis at the University of naked cells without the rigid cell to pure culture. A prime
Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada, wall that supposedly defines a example of this is the wheat
who is currently testing both fungus, says Tom Richards of rust fungus, which resisted
strains on little brown bats from the Natural History Museum in growing in pure culture until
the US to see if both versions London and the University of recently.)
cause WNS. Exeter in England. He calls
these long-overlooked fungi As the researchers examined
Irrespective of whether it is the cryptomycota, or "hidden fungi." DNA sequences from
nature of the fungus or evolved Of the life stages seen so far, a databases, the ancient group
resistance, researchers in swimming form and one "just got bigger and bigger [in
Europe told the meeting that attached to algal cells, there's genetic diversity] until it was as
they are trying to find out why no sign of the usual outer coat big as all previously known
European bats are not getting rich in a tough material called fungi," Richards says.
sick. “We’ve been taking wing- chitin, Richards and his
punch samples in the field for colleagues reported online May Lakes in France, farms in the
analysis to see it there are 11 in Nature. United States, and sediment
clues to survival in the deep in the sea have all yielded
genetics,” says Natalia "People are going to be DNA sequences in this group.
Martinkova of the Institute of excited," predicts mycologist The one habitat it doesn't seem
Vertebrate Biology in Brno, the Tim James of the University of to like is open ocean, Richards
Czech Republic. Michigan in Ann Arbor, who says.
also studies an ancient group of
Last week, the US Fish and fungi. "The big message here is that
Wildlife Service launched a most fungi and most fungal
national plan to provide state Other research indicates the diversity reside in fungi that
governments with guidance on new group exists, but the have neither been collected nor
how to manage and prevent current study starts to reveal cultivated," says John W. Taylor
outbreaks. “It provides a the biology. "The question is, is of the University of California,
framework for the coordination there another stage in the life Berkeley.
of all the organizations cycle that does have cell
involved,” says FWS walls?" he says. Exeter team member Meredith
spokeswoman Ann Froschauer. Jones spotted the hard-to-
She also revealed that the By analyzing DNA pulled detect organisms by marking
addition of Maine takes the directly from the environment, them with fluorescent tags. The
number of states affected by Richards and his colleagues trick revealed fungal cells
WNS to 19, plus four Canadian have confirmed that the hidden attached to algal cells as if
provinces. fungi belong on the same parasitizing them. One of the
ancient branch as a known big questions about early fungi
OLDEST, ODDEST genus named Rozella. Although is whether they might have
FUNGI FINALLY researchers have picked up arisen from "some kind of
DNA traces of fungi that didn't parasitic ancestor like Rozella,"
PHOTOGRAPHED quite fit in any group for at least
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says Rytas Vilgalys of Duke known as Daphnia magna, a Buck believes that the chytrid
University. variety of aquatic flea from the fungus, which was first
genus Daphnia. identified in 1998, does not
Interesting, yes. But loosening need to be completely
the definition of fungi to include They say that these organisms destroyed to prevent fatality in
organisms without chitin walls “could provide a desperately the amphibians. Rather, she
could wreak havoc in the needed tool for biological believes that experts can use
concept of that group, objects control of the deadly fungus biological control to simply
Robert Lucking of the Field whose impact, one researcher reduce the density of the agent
Museum in Chicago. "1 would has called, “the most in order to keep it from being
actually conclude, based on the spectacular loss of vertebrate fatal.
evidence, that these are not biodiversity due to disease in
fungi," he says. Instead, they recorded history.” The disease caused by the
might be near relatives-an fungus has been identified as
almost-fungus. The fungus in question, chytridiomycosis, and according
Batrachochytrium to the OSU press release, it
Ed. Note: there is a long- dendrobatidis, is a “chytrid” “has been documented to be
standing issue amongst fungus that can disrupt destroying amphibians around
biologists as to just exactly what electrolyte balance and lead to the world” with some experts
a fungus is. That isn’t an issue fatal cardiac arrest in its believing that as many as one-
when considering all the fungi amphibian hosts, officials from third of the world’s amphibians
we normally encounter on OSU said in a press release. are currently threatened by the
forays, even including the small condition.
group (Zygomycetes) which “There was evidence that
includes black bread mold or zooplankton would eat some “Its impact has been severe and
the dung-inhabiting other types of fungi, so we defied various attempts to
Phycomyces, which Andrea wanted to find out if Daphnia control it, even including use of
Moore shared with us in her would consume the chytrid fungicides on individual
slide presentation. fungus,” OSU doctoral student amphibian,” the university
Julia Buck, the study’s lead added in their statement.
author, said in a statement.
(Cont’d. on p. 8, Calendar of “Our laboratory experiments Ed. Note: There are other
Events.) and DNA analysis confirmed symbiotic relationships between
that it would eat the zoospore, water molds and zooplankton.
These last 3 articles from the June, the free-swimming stage of the Best known is one in which the
2011 issue of Spore Prints, Bulletin fungus.” tables are turned, so that one
of the Puget Sound Mycological
species of water mold fungus
Society
“We feel that biological control parasitizes two different
offers the best chance to control animals, one a species of
Newly Discovered this fungal disease, and now we Cyclops (a one-eyed zooplank-
Zooplankton Species have a good candidate for that,” ton), the other mosquito larvae.
she added. “Efforts to eradicate This parasite has been hyped
Could Save this disease have been as a possible biocontrol of
Amphibians unsuccessful, but so far no one mosquito larvae, which may be
has attempted biocontrol of the a real boon in areas where
chytrid fungus. That may be malaria is a disease of epidemic
Oregon State University (OSU)
the way to go.” proportions.
Researchers have discovered a
29 August 2011. Redorbit.com
Breed of freshwater zooplank-
Their findings were published in
ton that they say can help
the August 25 edition of the Articles for the next newsletter
combat a fungus that has been Deadline –January 22
journal Biodiversity and
devastating amphibian
Conservation. The study was
populations around the world.
supported in part by the David Miller
National Science Foundation 352 West College St.
According to the International Oberlin, OH 44074
(NSF).
Business Times, this particular David.H.Miller@oberlin.edu
species of zooplankton is
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Calendar of Events
completely unrelated to the But remember that the
OMS Events majority of fungi we collect and mushroom IS composed of
eat. DNA evidence thousands of compacted
Email Jerry at jsp@pepera.net
resoundingly seconds this hyphae; and also it is only a
to receive notification of
conclusion. very ephemeral stage in any
impromptu events. Check your
fungus’ life cycle; most of the
most recent issue of the
Mushroom Log for event year hyphae make up the
updates and for more detailed mycelium, which is involved in
information. Please plan to join digesting and absorbing the
us. All mini-and morel forays organic matter it is feasting on;
are subject to cancellation. Call and this mycelium persists
first to confirm. Please bring a during the lengthy (as long as
whistle and compass and an several years or more)intervals
RSVP to the host is between mushroom fruitings.
mandatory so they have Also these hyphae have cell
cancellation flexibility. walls made up of chitin and
other polymers.
(4 )they make detachable
reproductive structures called
(Ed. Note,cont’d from Page 7.) spores; the whole purpose of
It arises when considering the mushrooms is to create a perch
groups of “fungi” usually called So if water molds and from which the dispersal of
the “water molds”. They are so- mushrooms don’t share a these spores can take place.
named because their spores common branch on the “tree of
(aka zoospores) come life”, how can they both be
equipped with one or 2 thread- fungi? Aye, there’s the rub!
like extensions which whip Ohio & Regional
around in such a way as to Because the longish list of
propel them through the water characteristics which defines a
in which they dwell. The spores fungus is NOT based on their
of the fungi we collect are sharing a common ancestral
dispersed through the air on line or origin. Rather it is based National & More
wind currents. (Water molds on the following features: (1)
are well worth considering, they cannot make their own
because many of them are food; (2) they have nuclei in SOMA Camp Mushroom
virulent disease causers, e.g., which their DNA is stored; Extravaganza.
the above-mentioned frog (3)their body is mostly rather
diffuse and indefinite, being This year it will occur Jan. 14-
killers.)
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I understand that participating in the activities of a mushroom club involves a moderate amount of risk. This
includes all of the risks of being away from home, risks associated with moving about in fields and woods, risks
of encountering inclement weather, risks involved in eating wild mushrooms, risks of losing personal property by
theft or misplacement, and all other expected and unexpected risks, including illness or injury. While a member
of the Ohio Mushroom Society; or as a non-member attending any event hosted by the Ohio Mushroom Society,
I agree to assume total responsibility for my own safety and well-being; and that of any minor children under my
care, and for the protection of my and their personal property. I release the Ohio Mushroom Society, its board
members, club members, contractors, and any and all entities such as parks
or preserves, or any private property owner who may host an Ohio Mushroom Society event, and all other
persons assisting in the planning and presentation of any Ohio Mushroom Society event, from liability for any
sickness, injury, or loss I or any minor children under my care may suffer during any event or as a result of
attending or participating. I further promise not to file a lawsuit or make a claim against any of the persons or
entities set forth above, even if they negligently cause me or my minor children injury or loss. I agree to hold the
Ohio Mushroom Society harmless from any liability they may incur as a result of any damages to any property I
may cause. This release and promise is part of the consideration I give in order to be a member of the Ohio
Mushroom Society, or to attend any event which they host or attend, whether a member or a non-member. I
understand this affects my legal rights. I intend it to apply not only to me but to anyone who may have the right
to make a claim on my behalf.
Signature: ______________________________________ Date: _______________________
Return form and check or money order to: Ohio Mushroom Society, c/o Jerry Pepera, 8915 Knotty Pine Lane,
Chardon, OH 44024
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2011 Ohio Mushroom Society Volunteers
Chairman Newsletter Editor Program Planners Hospitality Chair
Walt Sturgeon Dave Miller Walt Sturgeon Sharon Greenberg
(330) 426-9833 (440) 774-8143 (330) 426-9833 (330) 457-2345
mycowalt@comcast.net David.H.Miller@oberlin.edu mycowalt@comcast.net d.greenberg@worldnet.att.
ne
Treasurer/Membership/ All-round Special Person Pete & Pauline Munk
Circulation (440) 236-9222 Janet Sweigart
Dick Grimm pjgmunk1@peoplepc.com jksweigart@yahoo.com
Jerry Pepera (740) 694-0782
jsp@pepera.net dickiephyls@yahoo.com Lake MetroParks Liaison
New Board Members:
Jack-of-All-Trades Cleveland Metroparks Pat Morse
Liason (440) 256-2106 Shirley McClelland
Dick Doyle pmorse@lakemetroparks.c (740) 536-7448
(740) 587-0019 Debra Shankland om shirleymcclelland@msn.co
rdoyle55@gmail.com (440) 526-1012 m
dks@clevelandmetroparks.
Corresponding Sec’y com Andrea Moore
(740) 969-8049
Chickenmom64@yahoo.co
m
Martha Bishop
bishopm@ohio.edu
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Ohio Mushroom Society
The Mushroom Log
Circulation and Membership
Jerry Pepera,
8915 Knotty Pine Lane
Chardon, OH 44024
Editor
Dave Miller
352 W. College St.
Oberlin, OH 44074
www.ohiomushroom.org
The Mushroom Log, the official newsletter of the
Ohio Mushroom Society, is published bi-monthly
throughout the year.
Contributions of articles and ideas for columns are
always welcome. Articles may be edited for length
and content.
Non-copyrighted articles may be reprinted without
permission in other mushroom club publications,
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