MMC’s Mother’s Day foray in fields and riverside forests surrounding generous host Danny Lichtenfeld’s historic home in Putney delivered all that was promised: fiddleheads, dryad’s saddles, and morels. Although the haul of morels measured in single digits rather than in bushels, it was a beautiful morning of foraging to a soundtrack of birdsong followed by a delicious and sociable potluck lunch. Several of us headed home with baskets of fiddleheads and nettles for the kitchen, in addition to the occasional yellow morel and (for those partial to watermelon rind) dryad’s saddles. The latter fungi tended to grow on dead or dying box elders lining crop fields. The day’s gilled mushrooms included traditional terrestrial spring fungi like Entoloma vernum, Agrocybe praecox and inkies. Unusual or unexpected finds included the scarlet cup fungus Sarcoscypha occidentalis, the “wild enoki” Flammulina velutipes (more typically a late fall/early winter fungus), and nice examples of recently emerged honeycomb polypore (Neofavolus alveolaris) and the hairy long stem “marasmius” Rhizomarasmius pyrrhocephalus, for which a new genus was erected recently to separate it from Marasmius. The following is a list of identified species:
MMC Mother’s Day foray Putnam VT May 10, 2026:
Agrocybe praecox SPRING FIELDCAP
Apioperdon/Lycoperdon pyriforme PEAR-SHAPED PUFFBALL
Cerioporus squamosus DRYAD’S SADDLE/PHEASANT BACK
Coprinellus ?domesticus DOMESTIC INKY
Enteloma vernum SPRING PINKGILL
Exidia crenata/recisa AMBER JELLY ROLL
Exidia nigricans/glandulosa BLACK WITCH’S/WARLOCK’S BUTTER
Fomes excavatus TINDER POLYPORE/HOOF FUNGUS
Flammulina velutipes VELVET FOOT/WILD ENOKI
Fomitopsis betulina BIRCH POLYPORE
Galerina marginata FUNERAL BELL
Ganoderma applanatum ARTIST’S CONK
Hydnoporia olivacea BROWN-TOOTHED CRUST
Morchella americana group YELLOW MOREL
Neofavolus alveolaris group HEXAGONAL-PORED/HONEYCOMB POLYPORE
Rhizomarasmius pyrrhocephalus HAIRY LONG STEM MARASMIUS
Sarcoscypha occidentalis STALKED SCARLET CUP
Stereum complicatum CROWDED PARCHMENT
Stereum lobatum group FALSE TURKEY TAIL
Trametes gibbosa LUMPY BRACKET
Trametes versicolor TURKEY TAIL
Trichaptum biforme VIOLET TOOTH POLYPORE
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