Kitty Coleman fungi (fall 2023)

From an email by Jocie to the Botany/Mycology Group on January 4.

Catching up from our November 23 outing to Kitty Coleman Provincial Park….

We found a wealth of fungi — it was quite a treasure hunt. Joy said that the excitement level was “like a bunch of 5th graders.” One of the highlights was the diminutive white shroom with a hairy stem and veins beneath rather than gills, Stereopsis humphreyiWe saw lots of winter oysters (Saromyxa serotina), Lynne M. said that she used to harvest these for Christmas dinner: “we used to squeeze all the moisture out and add them in with the stuffing.”

I’ve put the Kitty Coleman fungi list and photos (33 species) in this slide presentation (PDF file, 15 MB), with a few photos from the presentation and group shots below. Most of these were seen on our November 23 outing, with a few added from my previous visits there on October 16 and November 20. Please let me know if you have any corrections for IDs etc. Thanks to Tannis B. and David O., who provided some of the photos.

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