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As part of my duties as an Invasive Species Project Steward, it has been my pleasure to join the Forest Health Specialists in their fieldwork.

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The Forest Health Specialists travel to priority park lands throughout the region to survey and monitor for forest pests, with an emphasis on areas previously treated for pests and on early detection of emerging threats to forest health. Although our focus in these surveys have been hemlock woolly adelgid, southern pine beetle, and spotted lanternfly see DEC website or email invasives parks. Spending time in wild spaces and amongst such biodiversity ignites a sense of curiosity that no number of office supplies can replicate. The more time I spent hunting for the aforementioned pests, I found myself increasingly drawn to the study of one particular organism: Maybe I liked how they can be beautiful and disgusting, delicious and deadly, beneficial or parasitic, and all share a space within the field of mycology.

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Whatever the reason, I found them fascinating and had plenty of run-ins with them. One particularly distinct and common mushroom is chicken of the woods, scientifically named Laetiporus sulphureus. It is also called sulfur shelf because of the sulfur-yellow color of the pores, and its overlapping disk-like growth form protruding from oak, hemlock and other trees like a shelf.

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Each lobe is an inch thick, up to 20 inches across and can weigh up to a pound apiece! Another fungus you may see protruding off a tree, often birch, is the hoof fungus Fomes fomentarius , named as such for the hoof shape and hardness of the brown-ringed cap Roberts and Evans, Also in the polypore family, Polyporaceae, is the Cinnabar-red polypore Pycnoporus cinnabarinus pictured below.

The distinct red caps are inches wide and round, often growing on dead deciduous trees Lincoff, Another member of Polyporaceae is the violet toothed polypore Trichaptum biformis.

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They have round, overlapping caps up to 3 inches wide with a leathery texture and are brown with purple, wavy margins. They are found by the hundreds on deciduous trees, and over time will diminish them into sawdust Lincoff, !

False turkey-tail Streum ostrea is another fungus often growing on downed deciduous trees, although not a member of Polyporaceae. Its name stems from often being misidentified for the fungus turkey-tail Trametes versicolor , which is a polypore Lincoff, Research indicates that they produce laccase, an enzyme used to break down contaminants. The French mycologist Jean Baptiste Francois Pierre Buillard, who first described the species and named it, realized that the gills turn to a liquid with age and can be used to make ink.

The cap is light gray, thin and shaped like a partially opened umbrella with a smooth white stem and can be found growing on stumps, roadsides, and gardens. Keep a lookout on your woodland adventures for the highly sought-after chanterelles Cantharellus cibarius , also called golden chanterelles for their yellow-orange coloration. They have smooth stems that widen at the top to a funnel-shaped cap with gills on the underside and a smooth top with wavy edges.

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