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WHAT’S INSIDE:President’s Message ...................................................................................... 2Bytes, Bits, & Bites ..................................................................... begins on 2Grete Turchick Foray and Picnic photos .................................................. 3Chestnut Branch foray report ..................................................................... 3Wawayanda foray report ............................................................................. 4Wells Mills foray report ............................................................................... 4Cattus Island foray report ............................................................................ 5Forest Resource Education Center foray report ...................................... 5Fungus Fest #41 report ................................................................................. 6Can I Eat is? ............................................................................................... 7Laetiporus “cinicinnattus” ........................................................................... 8Calendar of Upcoming Events ................................................................... 9Who’s In A Name?....................................................................................... 102019 Holiday Dinner/Party & Photo Contest registration ................ 12
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Lactarius indigo
PHOTO BY NINA BURGHARDT
One of the few truly blue mushrooms in theworld, this one is considered as uncommon
in New Jersey. A specimen was foundat our Cattus Island foray this fall.
It has blue flesh and bleeds blue milk.It is considered edible, but “coarse and grainy”.
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Dear NJMA friends,
ank you for allowing me the honor and privilege ofserving as NJMA’s president for 2018 and 2019. It hasbeen a busy two years, both personally and professionallyand I hope that I have been able to serve the club well.
I am very grateful to NJMA for all it has taught me. estated purpose of the club is “to provide a means forsharing ideas, experiences, knowledge and commoninterests regarding fungi, and to furnish mycologicalinformation and educational materials to those whowish to increase their knowledge about mushrooms”. Ijoined the club in 2011 with a very limited knowledge ofa few edible mushrooms, and since joining I have expe-rienced such a diverse range of mycological experi-ences: forays large and small, indulging in edibles fromaround the world, myco-travel, classes and workshopsin microscopy, taxonomy and DNA. I’ve met mycolo-gists from around the world, made new friends andtaken over a whole room in my house just for “mush-rooms”. And I honestly just joined the club so I couldlearn new edibles.
As I leave this position in NJMA, I would just like tothank all those who volunteer their time to the club:past, present and future. No effort is too small in ourorganization, and it takes a whole community to sustaina club at our level. NJMA is a world-class myco club,and it is an honor to be a part of it. ank you!
Sincerely,Luke Smithson
WELCOME TO THEONLINE EDITION OF NJMANEWSFor the great majority of you who are viewing the online PDF of thisnewsletter, please note that most web links and email addressesare clickable. Clicking on a blueweb or email address will launchyour web browser and take you to the specified page or open youremail software so you can send an instant email. Just look for the“click finger” when you hover your mouse over these items.
from the Editor:
Fantastic Fungi film - have you seen it yet?https://tinyurl.com/y3molxq5
from Sue McClary:
Fungus fuels tree growthhttps://tinyurl.com/y32ko6ug
from Sue McClary:
Nature’s first aid kit: A fungus growing on the sides ofbirch trees
https://tinyurl.com/y3eu4d8t
from Gary Makus:
ISMM conference on medicinal mushroomswas held in China:
https://tinyurl.com/y46kd53z
from Judy Glattstein:
Mushroom foraging saved me from my grief:https://tinyurl.com/yylldj9h
from Sue McClary:
Which wines and beers pair best with mushrooms?https://tinyurl.com/y3p8hr6f
BYTES, BITS, & BITESTASTY LITTLE TIDBITS FROM OUR MEMBERSHave you read something interesting concerning mushrooms or foraging?Send it to [email protected] and share with the rest of our members!
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FORAY REPORTSGRETE TURCHICKMEMORIAL FORAY AND PICNICSTOKES STATE FORESTSEPTEMBER 8TH
PHOTO BY GARY MAKUS
PHOTO BY GARY MAKUS
The group identifying at Stokes
A fine spread of potluck goodies!
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CHESTNUT BRANCH PARKSEPTEMBER 15TH
by John Burghardt, NJMA Recorder
Our first foray at Chestnut Branch Park in MantuaTownship was great fun. We spent the week before theforay wondering if this would be the week when dryconditions would leave us with very few, mostly dried-up fungi. But it turned out the area had received somegood rains in the two days before our walk, and themature, mixed hardwood forest provided plenty offungi to observe and collect.
We identified about 120 taxa, most to species butseveral only to genus. In general this year, we have beenseeing fewer mycorhizzal fungi than we usually see.ese fungi live in a mutually beneficial relationshipwith trees. ey include gilled fungi (Amanita,Cortinarius, Inocybe, Laccaria, Lactarius, Russula);Boletes (Boletus and related genera, Gyroporus,Tylopilus, Xerocomus); Cantharellus and related generasuch as Craterellus; and Scleroderma. We identifiedjust 23 specimens in these groups, including 10Russulae, although there were several more we werenot able to identify – these all get lumped into “sp.” forthe particular genus. On the other hand, the recentrains had produced a wealth of fresh wood decay fungi(saprobes). Many of the saprobic gilled fungi fruit veryquickly after rain, so we saw a lot of interesting exam-ples of these.
As always, several interesting, unusual mushroomswere collected including two saprobes that are new toour list, and two mychorrizal fungi that have each beencollected only a few times in nearly 40 years. First thetwo saprobes:
Crepidotus kauffmanii is a brown conch-to-spoon-shaped fungus with brown gills and only a hint of astem that grows on dead wood. Nina Burghardt identi-fied this; we don’t know who collected it. It is new tothe NJMA list. Interesting is that this is one of two taxaon our list with the species name “kauffmanii”. eother is Xeromphalina kauffmanii. I believe the onlything these two unrelated fungi have in common is thatthe authors of the original description of each specieswanted to honor Calvin Henry Kauffmann, an eminentmycologist in the early 20th century.
Leucocoprinus fragilissimus is an exceedingly delicate,very fragile white mushroom with almost a see-through cap and with yellow near the center of thewhite cap. Maricel Patino collected and identified this.e Latin species name “fragilissimus” means“extremely fragile”, and this one sure is. is taxon wasoriginally identified in the south from Texas to Floridaand north to Virginia. You can find many nice photos atMushroom Observer (www.mushroomobserver.org).
Russula praeclavipesfound on the FREC foray
(see page 6)PHOTO BY JOHN BURGHARDT
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But in recent years, it has been found in Ohio,Pennsylvania, and Connecticut, as well as New Jersey(several times now by Maricel).Now for the two mycorhizzal fungi:Lactarius cinereus var. fagetorum is another unusual findwhose species epithet describes the fungus: it has an ashgray (“cinereus” in Latin) cap with some olive tints, and itgrows in beech wood (“fagetorum” in Latin). LukeSmithson collected and identified this. I didn’t find anyphotos of it on Mushroom Observer, so it is quite unusual.
Russula rubripurpurea again illustrates the usefulness ofthe Latin names. is sturdy little Russula had a purplecap with some red it (“rubri” mean reddish and“purpurea” means purple in Latin). Sue McClarycollected it, and I identified it using the Kibby/FattoRussula Key (KF). An online version of the key is at“Russulalles News” if you google this search term. I stillfind the hard copy of the key (available from NJMA) tobe invaluable. I was not able to find pictures of R.rubripurpurea or a description online until I cameacross a description in Bessette, Roody, and Bessette,Mushrooms of the Southeastern United States, which fitour specimen in all aspects including spore dimensionsand ornamentation. is appears to be another southernspecies making its way northward.
We want to thank everyone who participated incollecting, sorting, assigning names, or just askingquestions about their finds. Special thanks to ErikMollenhauer, Rich Dilks and other members of theGloucester County Nature Club who came out andmade us welcome at their beautiful park.
Please let me know if you have corrections or additionsto the list. If you would the list of collected fungi,contact John by phone at (609-651-2728) or [email protected].
CHESTNUT BRANCH FORAY (continued from page 3) WAWAYANDA FORAYWITH NEW YORK MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETYSEPTEMBER 28TH
by John Burghardt, NJMA Recorder
It was a beautiful, mild fall day, but unfortunately theincreasingly dry conditions finally caught up with us.e gilled mushrooms were sparse, although asurprising number of collections in good conditionappeared on the table. e boletes and chanterelleswere all but completely absent. But there were manygood collections of polypores, cup fungi (ascomycetes),and crust fungi, including four species in the latter twoform groups that are new to our NJMA cumulative list– thank you, Ethan.
anks to Judy Gorab for leading the foray and scopingout the moist spots last week ahead of time. anks toeveryone for your interest, many good collections, andhelp with sorting and identification. I hope we can doanother joint NJMA/NYMS foray next year.
If you would the list of collected fungi, contact John at(609-651-2728) or [email protected].
WELLS MILLS PARK FORAYOCTOBER 6TH
by John Burghardt, NJMA Recorder
Given how dry it has become, I approached the foray atWells Mill Park on October 6th as an opportunity towalk in a beautiful woods, meet some interestingpeople, and maybe collect a few mushrooms. My firsttwo expectations were definitely met, but somewhat tomy surprise, the collecting was also very good.
We collected a relatively large number of mycorrhizalfungi in very good condition. (e growing edge of themycorrhizal fungi attach to the roots of trees, whichallows the trees and fungi to exchange resources.)Among the gilled fungi, the mycorrhizal ones includedthe gilled fungi in the genera Amanita, Cortinarius,Laccaria, Lactarius, Russula, and Tricholoma; all threeBoletes listed, as well as the Craterellus and the twoHydnum. We also saw a relatively large number ofspecies collected for the first time this year. isreflects both the unusual and varied habitats at WellsMills – upland pine/oak forest and wet areas withAtlantic White Cedar and a variety of deciduous shrubs– and the seasonal preferences of the fungi. Forexample, five of the seven Cortinarius species identifiedtend to fruit in the fall. All three Tricholomas fruitprimarily at this time of year.
anks to everyone who participated. We greatlyappreciated the many good collections, and help withsorting, identification, and rounding up the errantcollections lifted off the tables by the brisk winds.
If you would the list of collected fungi, contact John at(609-651-2728) or [email protected].
from Judy Glattstein:
Can you survive on foraged food?https://tinyurl.com/y257qs3u
from Sue McClary:
Will morels become a cash crop?https://tinyurl.com/y23p98ou
from Gary Makus:
Grow your own truffles documenthttps://tinyurl.com/y6js9lyh
from Judy Glattstein:
‘Magical’ mushroom find to rival Europe’s besthttps://tinyurl.com/y2v9dy67
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CATTUS ISLAND FORAYOCTOBER 13TH
by John Burghardt (NJMA Recorder)
Dry conditions finally caught up with us at CattusIsland. e ground was crunchy, and even where theduff retained some moisture, you had to look hard forthe fungi. But when each member of a large groupbrings back a few mushrooms, they add up. Andsomehow it turned out that most of us found differentspecies. So despite dry conditions, we had plenty ofinteresting fungi to look at, discuss, and try to identify.
As always, most of what we collected is fairly common,which is good for those of us trying to learn the names– repetition helps. But as usually happens, there wereseveral interesting surprises. I want to briefly describefour of those.
Amanita sp. bisporigera 05, Tulloss. is is a temporaryname that Rod Tulloss has assigned, as he conductsgenetic studies, to sort out the several heretoforecryptic species known to us as Amanita bisporigera, theDestroying Angel. As Rod told us at the tables, this oneis a distinct species within the A. bisporigera complexthat fruits late in the season. Maria made this collection.
Russula angustispora, Bills. is is also new to ourNJMA list. It was described from Virginia andMaryland. You can find a description of it on page 271in Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Appalachiansby William Roody. Our collection matched Roody’sdescription: robust fruiting body, cap white cap withyellow brown over the disc, cross connections betweenadjacent gills, and very narrow, ellipsoid spores(“angustispora” means “narrow spored”). It grows inassociation with pines. Oddly, this species seems to berarely reported – there is one collection on theMushroom Observer website (www.mushroomob-server.org) and one collection listed on Mycoportal.Alicia made this collection.
Leiotrametes (=Trametes) lactinea Berk (Sacc.). (photobelow) is is a small, but thick, shelf mushroom with avelvety cap and large pores. It is primarily a southernspecies, but Luke and others have found it in New Jersey,
eastern Pennsylvania, and New York. You can find manyphotos and an excellent, detailed description atwww.mushroomobserver.org. Luke made this collection.
Lactarius indigo (Schwein.) Fr. is Lactarius has a bluezonate cap and blue gills. When cut, the gills exude bluelatex. It is apparently widely distributed in pine and oakforests in North America east of the Rocky MountainsBut we have recorded it only a few times in New Jersey.Charlie made this collection.
In addition to all the sorting and identification, many ofyou stayed to participate in a workshop on cultivatingOyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus). anks toFrank Kushnir for preparing and conducting the work-shop. And good luck to all the participants in bringingthe spawn to full grown oysters ready for the pan!
anks to everyone for the many good collections, helpwith sorting and identification, and your interest andmany good questions. Finally, we thank the Cattus IslandPark staff for hosting the foray and participating in it.
If you would the list of collected fungi, contact John at(609-651-2728) or [email protected].
FOREST RESOURCEEDUCATION CENTER FORAYOCTOBER 26TH
by John Burghardt, NJMA Recorder
e preliminary list of the species we identified fromour foray at the Forest Resource Education Center onSaturday, October 26th numbers almost 90 species.
e one species new to our NJMA list is Hypomycesboletifagus (the “bolete eating” Hypomyces). It is a para-site on Strobilomyces. e Hypomyces covered thespore-bearing surface in an orange mold while leavingthe cap surface intact, allowing identification of the hostto Strobilomyces sp.. e Russula praeclavipes was alarge, vibrant red Russula covered with sand. (photo onpage 3) Elizabeth made this nice collection. It keyed outto R. praeclavipes in the Fatto-Kibby key. But this is oneof many species named by Murrill from the southernUS for which there are not many records and no photosthat I could find. So I am not sure the name is right.
Our list for this foray includes a few lichens. Lichens areorganisms composed of cyanobacteria or algae livingwith fungi. Selene collected and identified the threeCladonia species. ank you, Selene.
anks also to everyone who participated in collecting,sorting, and putting names to the fungi we found. eforay was great fun. Please let me know of additions orcorrections to the list.
If you would the list of collected fungi, contact John at(609-651-2728) or [email protected] BY NINA BURGHARDT
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FUNGUS FEST #41by Liz Broderick, Chairperson, Fungus Fest
“Amazing,” “Unexpected,” “Beautiful,” and “Wild” weresome of the descriptions I heard visitors express aboutour largest public outreach of the year. Once again,Fungus Fest was a resounding success thanks to theteamwork of our dedicated volunteers. Although theweeks preceding the event were hot and dry, 159 fungalspecies were brought in from over 20 locations aroundthe state. Nina Burghardt managed to find and identifyHysterangium stoloniferum at the Franklin ParkerPreserve, a puffball that has never been found since webegan keeping records in 1981. Perhaps this dryweather that inhibits fruiting of our usual fall fungalsuspects is conducive to other, rarer species.
Two changes enhanced our event this year. Jim Barg andRandy Hemminghaus created colorful new signs tospruce up our displays. A major innovation was the useof QR codes on the ID tables. Guests with smartphonescould use a QR scanner app to link them to online infor-mation about a fungus simply by scanning its code. SueMcClary created QR code links to Mushroom Expert andWikipedia for 90 commonly-found fall fungi. An addedbonus is that some apps save this information, so thosewho are interested can read up on these fungi later.
Mike Mudrak counted about 250 people entering theexhibit hall, and the Arboretum receptionist counted1600 folks who came into the Haggerty EducationCenter. Normally, on a busy day, the Arboretum getsabout 400 visitors, so they estimated that 1200 people
visited our public outreach for the exhibits, workshops,walks and vendors.
Once again, this year’s crowd seemed to be a youngergroup who were excited about foraging and the impor-tance of fungi in our ecosystems. Several teachersexpressed plans to incorporate lessons on fungi intotheir classrooms. Hundreds of curious guests enjoyedthe exhibit hall, walks, cooking demonstrations, cultiva-tion and papermaking workshops, walks and vendors.Many people stayed for hours to learn as much aspossible from our knowledgeable volunteers and enjoythe delicious samples served at the cooking demonstra-tions. Twenty-two new members joined NJMA , and 19
Nancy Addotta and Artie Grimesin the Fungus Fest kitchen
Amazing attendance in dry weather!
5Cooking class! 6Making paper!
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PHOTO BY PAUL SHELDON
PHOTO BY PAUL SHELDON
PHOTO BY LIZ BRODERICK PHOTO BY LIZ BRODERICK
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CAN I EAT THIS?by Alex Adams
e perennial question, right? Here is a pasted cc ofone such answer i did and i invite you to amend / crit-icize / use as you want, if you want. Sometimes themuse moves me at 4ish a.m. and the cranial sludge justhas to splain you.
First thing is to rearrange your priorities. 1. How &what to observe, 2. When to bother looking. 3. Payingattn to others with heavy experience 4 Who knows wtfthey are talking about - too many don’t. 5 Foraying tech-niques. 6. ID techniques 7. ID skills developed 8 NOW,can I eat it? Patience, grasshopper, it’s a process and youcan actually enjoy it if done right. For some, a club ishandy. Others will find a generous experienced mycolo-gist. It’s fun for me to teach others off the cuff, but notso for some others, who’d prefer a classroom setting orsuch. Your VERY BEST LEARNING will come by beingamong a group[s] doing their thing, and listening care-fully to what they say and do. Go to NAMYCO.ORGand find a club, and / or spend your spare change goingto a weekend foray / convention, anywhere. Ears open,brain open, mouth mostly shut. e fungi might bewrong for your locale, but the techniques and generalgestalt of fungal ID will be spot on if they are at allskilled. One advantage of weekends is the deep immer-sion, which will seem mind-numbing at first but just letwhatever penetrates your fog, sink in. (note that thebiggies of pro/am mycology differ widely in their affect,attitudes, methodology, etc. and you can gravitate towhichever speak to your specific ear/brain). en, gointo the woods with your loupe, eyes, nose, taster, etc.and see how many differences you can detect among themushrooms you find there. Relax about eating them yet,even doing good ID, and sharpen your FieldCharacteristics skill way, way beyond slapping a photoup on some FB page and asking for spoon-fed name,which will teach you nothing, as even that often getssome very poorly thought-out SWAGs (scientific wild-ass guess) whose authors should be slapped downviolently.(Editor’s note: to preserve the author’s style editing of this articlehas been minimal)
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renewed their memberships. Total revenue frommembership, donations, and vendor commissionstotaled $1582.00, the most ever collected at Fungus Fest.
Once again, I would like to thank the volunteers whoshared their knowledge and enthusiasm about the FifthKingdom with the public. is is a huge event that isonly possible because our core group of people worktogether to pull it off. Several people showed up forboth the setup on Saturday and to help on Sunday.Special thanks to Phil Layton, Dorothy Smullen, KevinBroderick, John Burghardt, Marc Grobman, SueMcClary, Frank Kushnir, Mike Rubin, RandyHemminghaus and Gavin H.. Luke Smithson drove toKennett Square to pick up the fresh mushrooms,display items and mushroom-related swag from PhilipsMushroom Farms, who have generously supported ourprogram for many years. anks also to NinaBurghardt, Marc Grobman and Maricel Patino forscouring the woods during the preceding week for freshfungi for the ID table and the walks.
e potluck afterwards was a welcome way to decom-press, and served as a chance to visit with old and newfriends. For those members who have been hesitant tovolunteer, we welcome all skill levels. You don’t have tobe an expert to help out, and it is a chance to makefriends with others who share your interest in fungi.
Mark your calendars for next year’s Fungus Fest, whichwill be held on Sunday, September 27, 2020.
Stef Bierman displaying mushroom wares in the vendor area
Lots of activity for kids in the Children’s CornerPHOTO BY PAUL SHELDON
PHOTO BY LIZ BRODERICK
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LAETIPOROUS “CINCINNATUS”?SOME COMMENTS AND A RECIPEby Judy (the pot-hunter) Glattstein
Hi Jim, It’s been so dry that I have not had much hope,mushroom-wise. Heading out today, I saw this alongthe side of the road on a fallen log. Of course I madesure to retrace my travel, knife and camera in hand. emushrooms seem quite tender and in prime condition.e “shelves” are not as thick as I am used to withLaetiporus sulphureus, and the color is a pale sandy /chamois hue. Marvelous mushroom-y aroma. Icollected what was closest to the road, filled the picniccooler, could not easily reach what was further back onthe log. is is not the same log where I used to find L.sulphureus - that has long since vanished. Not even thesame area.
e Laetiporus cincinnatus, stored in the refrigeratorunder paper towels changed color from the buff seenwhen I collected them to the more typical orange. Papertowels had become slightly damp. I can only assumethat the very dry / low humidity weather somehow“bleached” the in-situ color. And in the cooler refriger-
ator conditions as the mushroom metabolized and gaveoff a little moisture that the color was restored. Veryinteresting, at least to me.
Shared some “shelves” of the mushroom with threeother people. I like to do that.
I used some of the mushroom last night. Rotini pastawith leftover salmon, flaked. en tossed withLaetiporus cincinnatus I foraged last ursday andsautéed-in-butter small broccoli florets (A friend gaveme a head of broccoli and other lovely stuff (pawpaws,anyone?) when I visited her garden this afternoon).ere was just a little sauce left from when I cooked thesalmon - steamed in a bamboo steamer with soy sauceand a dab of ginger paste - and that’s what I finished thepasta with.
Re-reading the above, it might come across asconfusing. Basically it was pasta, salmon, broccoli, andwild mushrooms. Got it?
To freeze the extra mushrooms: Take harder portionsof the Laetiporus cincinnatus (I’m now wondering ifthey aren’t L. sulphureus after all) and coarsely chop.Toss in a pot with homemade stock. In this case, it wasturkey. Chicken OK too, but I’d avoid beef or venison.Bring to a strong simmer, cover pot, turn down heat andignore for at least an hour. Two hours are OK.
Take a large frying pan and melt a generous amount ofbutter (Use lots of butter - I used eight tablespoons toabout a quart of mushroom pieces) while you cut thetender portion of mushroom shelves in strips. Break inpieces and add to pan. Toss around to coat with butter,then simmer.
When the butter is all absorbed, prepare to add broth byhaving the frying pan lid at the ready. Add a ladle full ofbroth and immediately cover to retain steam. Turn heatto low. Gently simmer until all the broth is absorbed(pretty quickly.)
Remove mushroom pieces from pan, cool, refrigerate.When all the mushrooms are prepared and cooled,repack into useful size containers, cover with mush-room-infused broth, label and freeze.
Laetiporus cincinnattus?
Laetiporus cincinnattus habitat
PHOTO ©BELLEWOOD GARDENS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
PHOTO ©BELLEWOOD GARDENS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS
Sunday, December 81:00pm
HOLIDAY PARTY AND PHOTO CONTESTUnitarian Society, Tices Lane, East BrunswickMembers only, $10.00 registration required. See page 12 for details and mail-in registration form. You can also register online using PayPal.
Sunday, January 261:00pm
GENERAL MEETING Frelinghuysen Arboretum, Morristown– Beginners’ Q&A: NJMA will host a panel of experienced members to answer any
and all questions from curious mushroom enthusiasts.– Best of 2019: A review of NJMA's best finds of 2019
Sunday, February 161:30pm
MYCOPHAGY AND MYCOAUCTIONUnitarian Society, Tices Lane, East Brunswickwith Chef Chris Albrecht, Executive Chef, e Ryland Inn, Whitehouse Station, NJMembers only. Registration form will be in the next issue of NJMA News (#50-1)Note: Start collecting contributions of mushroom-related items for the Myco-auction!
WELCOME TO ALL OF OUR NEW NJMA MEMBERS!We’d like to extend a warm welcome to the following members who joined us between
September 7, 2019 and November 5, 2019. We look forward to seeing you at lectures, forays, and other NJMA events.Happy ’shrooming!
Charles Amicone Williamstown, NJJames, Ryan & Deborah Angley South River, NJMichael Avella Ocean, NJDolores Batz-Culp Scotch Plains, NJHelena Bauernschmitt Neptune, NJDonna Bird Madison, NJEllie Boulder Lindenwold, NJVictoria Canipe Plainfield, NJGabrielle Carbone Lambertville, NJArthur & Jo Ann Casadevall Morristown, NJJohn Casaleggio Stockholm, NJSharon Ceravolo Wenonah, NJMarjorie Coach Seaville, NJLaura Dlugacz Penn Valley, PAJackie Eak Old Bridge, NJTravis Ebner Howell, NJDavid Einstein Old Bridge, NJFaith Frankel Boonton, NJElzbieta Frydel Franklinville, NJSebastian Gallegos Plainfield, NJJoe Gomez Robbinsville, NJKhristina Gonzalez Princeton, NJElaine Goodman Wenonah, NJSarah Hunt West Orange, NJAlexander Huss Quinton, VASarah Jones Newton, NJPeter & Anabela Kalliney Westfield, NJ
yra Kelly Newton, NJDaniel Kilcoyne Delanco, NJMegan Klouse Lincoln Park, NJJessica Krause Branchville, NJBarbara Lambiase Edison, NJChris & Jina Lee Warren, NJJustin Martinez North Brunswick, NJPam McCartney Oak Ridge, NJCecily Moyer Morristown, NJHelen Mueller Hamilton, NJAndrea Muraskin Morris Plains, NJEliza Murphy Green Village, NJKellan Peck Princeton, NJVictoria Ribet Bloomingdale, NJMichael Rich Princeton, NJMiles Rogers Morristown, NJCharles Sbarra Hammonton, NJWilliam Schmitz Augusta, NJDavid Shields Cinnaminson, NJMelissa Shilale Bradley Beach, NJHector Soriano New York, NYJessica omas Warren, NJValerie Tini Barnegat, NJAlan Trupio Farmingdale, NJRobert Weisman Bridgewater, NJJohn & Cheryl Werzinger Manahawkin, NJJohn & Steven Wolfe Hawthorne, NJ
Forest Service; and in 1905 he founded the Society ofAmerican Foresters and, together with his father,endowed a graduate School of Forestry at Yale.
Under the patronage first of President GroverCleveland, who asked him to develop a plan formanaging the federal forest preserves in the westernstates, and later of eodore Roosevelt, Pinchot advo-cated the practice of sustainable forestry throughcontrolled, continuous cropping of timber, in opposi-tion both to the logging companies’ wholesale felling oftrees for short-term gain and to preservationists such asJohn Muir, who sought to set aside wilderness andscenic areas in perpetuity, without commercial intru-
sion. Pinchot believed in federalownership and management of thenation’s public lands, with privateinterests allowed to harvest treesfrom national forests under strictoversight and with payment of fees.
Pinchot’s influence declined whenRoosevelt’s term as Presidentended. Swayed by commercialinterests, the new congressopposed further conservationefforts, and Pinchot becameengaged in public controversy withPresident Taft and his Secretary ofthe Interior, Richard Ballinger.Consequently, Taft fired Pinchot in1910, after which Pinchot pursuedhis political ambitions and activi-ties in his home state ofPennsylvania.
In 1914, Pinchot married thesocially prominent suffragist and
political activist Cornelia Bryce, who bore him one son,Gifford Bryce Pinchot, and who helped her husbandcampaign for various political offices. In the yearsduring and after the Depression, when the Pinchotfamily fortune declined, her own inherited wealth alsohelped to sustain the couple financially.
Pinchot served two non-consecutive terms as governorof Pennsylvania, from 1923 to 1927 and 1931 to 1935.During the latter period, he worked with FranklinRoosevelt’s Works Progress Administration and theNational Park Service to improve and expandPennsylvania’s state park system, and he engaged theCivilian Conservation Corps to work at 113 sites on thestate’s public lands. Pinchot was also a staunchsupporter of Prohibition, and when it was repealed in1933, he was instrumental in establishing thePennsylvania Liquor Control Board.
Pinchot died of leukemia on 4 October 1946. In addi-
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WHO’S IN A NAME?Amanita pinchotensis (nom. prov.)by John Dawson (seventy-fifth in a series)
Eight years ago, on a foray in Gifford Pinchot State Parknear Lewisberry, Pennsylvania, I collected the unusualAmanita (shown in the accompanying photos). Afterposting those photos on Mushroom Observer, I submittedthe specimen to Rod Tulloss, who recently had itsequenced. It turned out to be a species new to sciencethat he has provisionally named Amanita pinchotensis, inrecognition of where it was found. But the name of thatpark itself honors the distinguished forester and conser-vationist Gifford Pinchot, so the epithet pinchotensis (likethat of Phellinus robiniae, thesubject of an earlier installment inthis series) is an example of asecond-order eponym.
Gifford Pinchot was born into awealthy family on 11 August 1865in Simsbury, Connecticut. Hismaternal grandfather, Amos Enos,had amassed a fortune as a NewYork City real estate developer, towhich Gifford’s father James addeda great deal more as an importer ofFrench wallpaper that well-to-doVictorians used to furnish theirhomes. Young Gifford grew up atGrey Towers, the family estate inMilford, Pennsylvania, that is now aNational Historic Site, and waseducated at Phillips ExeterAcademy and Yale University,where he enrolled in 1885 andbecame a member of the presti-gious Skull and Bones Society.After graduating from Yale in 1889 he then spent a yearat the French National School of Forestry in Nancy.
It was Gifford’s father who had suggested that Giffordbecome a forester — not an occupation one wouldexpect a prosperous businessman to recommend to hisson. But James Pinchot had conservationist leaningsthat Gifford shared, and management of the Pinchotfamily’s financial affairs was taken over by Gifford’sbrother Amos, so Gifford was able to pursue a career inforestry without financial concerns or distractions.
After his return from France, Pinchot rose quickly toprominence within that profession: In 1896, theNational Academy of Sciences created a National ForestCommission, on which Pinchot served as the only non-Academy member; in 1898 he became head of theDivision of Forestry in the U.S. Department ofAgriculture which, seven years later, was transferred tothe Department of the Interior and renamed the U.S.
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Gifford Pinchot in 1909(portrait by Pirie MacDonald)
how little I know after all.” Since it was several daysuntil the course met again and we didn’t know how topreserve the specimen, we didn’t collect it. But at thenext session, I told Tina about our find and asked herwhat lookalike there was for Amanita muscaria thathad pores. Her jaw dropped and she said “I have noidea. But let’s see what Professor Smith has to say.” Afew days later, she introduced me to him, and after Idescribed what we had seen he said “You probablyfound a mutant,” adding that, in the other direction, heknew of instances in which boletes had developed gills.He was of course disappointed that we had notcollected it, as were we, since had we done so we wouldhave had the distinction of donating a specimen to theUniversity of Michigan herbarium that we had found onour very first collecting expedition.
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tion to the state park in Pennsylvania, a national forestin Washington state is named after him, as is PinchotPass in Kings Canyon National Park, California, and anendangered lizard, Anolis pinchoti, that is restricted tothree Colombian islands.Source: Most of the information in this profile, as well as the portrait ofPinchot reproduced here, is taken from the Wikipedia entry about him.
Personal addendum: My contribution of the type spec-imen of Amanita pinchotensis to Tulloss’s HerbariumAmanitarum Rooseveltensis makes up for an Amanitathat “got away” more than forty years ago. My introduc-tion to mushrooming occurred in 1972 after I finishedmy dissertation in mathematics at the University ofMichigan. In the interim before I began a postdoctoralinstructorship at Penn State, my wife and I enrolled in anon-credit course on mushroom identification taughtby Tina Gilliam, a student of Alexander H. Smith. Afterthe first session of the course, we went to a nearby staterecreation area and came upon a bright red Amanitawith cottage-cheese-like warts on top, a ring, and ridgeson the stipe. On seeing it I said, “OK, that’s one mush-room I do know. at's Amanita muscaria.” But onexamining it more closely we discovered it had poresrather than gills! I thought, “Well, I guess that shows
Amanita pinchotensis underside
Amanita pinchotensis
PHOTO BY JOHN DAWSON
PHOTO BY JOHN DAWSON
BYTES, BITS, & BITES (continued from page 4)from Judy Glattstein:
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from Sue McClary:
How to identify and cook Honey Mushroomshttps://tinyurl.com/yyn48y4s
from Sue McClary:
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from Mark Bittman:
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from the Editor:
Should I Buy Pre-Sliced Mushrooms?https://tinyurl.com/y5a23h7p
from Sue McClary:
Laetiporus could be the next commercial meat substitutehttps://tinyurl.com/yxgq9coe
from a friend of a friend of a NJMA member:
Why the Poles love mushroom pickinghttps://tinyurl.com/y2az5m93
from Sue McClary:
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from Sue McClary:
Lactic acid fermentation of edible mushroomshttps://tinyurl.com/y3d3ogbv
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Holiday Dinner 2019The NJMA requests the pleasure of your company at our most elegant Holiday Dinner and Photo
Contest. It will be held at the Unitarian Society in East Brunswick on Sunday, December 8, 2019at 1:00PM and will run until 5:00PM (or maybe a little later). We will intersperse the dinner courses
with viewing of the (usually) spectacular photo contest entries and hearing the photo contest judges gentlycritique and offer their photographic advice about the entries.Please bring a favorite dish for the buffet table. The dish should be sufficient for 6 - 8 people if a main dish,and 8 -10 people if an appetizer, side dish, or dessert. If you plan to bring a dish containing wild mushroomsyou must get prior clearance for the dish. (Contact Luke Smithson by December 1st). Dishes must be labeled toshow ingredients, and should arrive ready for the buffet table with serving utensils. Beverages will be provided.Please note that a donation of $10.00 per person is required to offset the costs of the event.
In order that we may cater the party properly, please respond by December 1, 2019!No reservations can be accepted after that date. Register early because space is limited.
You must be a current member of NJMA to attend this event.
Registration this year will available on the NJMA website via PayPal (preferred). Please use the com-ment section on PayPal to list the dish you are bringing and to indicate whether it is an appetizer, side dish,main dish, or dessert.Please contact Luke Smithson ([email protected]) if you can volunteer to help with setup or cleanup or havequestions about the event. Please contact Igor ([email protected]) if you have questions about yourregistration via PayPal. For those who prefer to register by mail, the form below is provided.
NJMA Holiday Dinner Registration FormFill out this form, make your check payable to NJMA, and mail both, before December 1, to:Igor Safonov, 115 East King’s Highway, Unit #348, Maple Shade, NJ 08052-3478
OR, save time and postage! Why not REGISTER ONLINE with PayPal?
NAME(S): ____________________________________________________________________________
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