🌌🍄🌟 Cosmic!!! Magic!!! Here a some photos from the member foray at Zilker Park on Sunday May 30, 2021. The Zilker Park trails were TEAMING with mushrooms especially mycorrhizal fungi that surfaced with the continuous rain.
We observed 11 new species in the area of the Zilker Mushroom Project on iNaturalistt bringing the total number to 89 species observed.
We will be sending the purple speckled “cosmic” species off to get DNA analysis by Alan Rockefeller. We thought it was a #cortinarious species but the spore print is white (cortInarious has rust colored spores)! Jared McRay @jredeye311 gave us some tips and we think it is a mushroom from Africa in the Asproinocybe genus.
There were A LOT of chanterelles flushing and we will be sending a specimen to David Lewis for analysis and to store in the herbarium at Texas A&M.
With all the continuous rain, we hope to hold another member foray soon. If you're not yet a member, now is the time to jump on it!! As Sam the Fungi would say "LET'S GO!!!"
