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  • Puffball

    Giant puffball

    Giant Puffball (Calvatia gigantea) is found in meadows, fields, and deciduous forests in late summer and autumn. The rapidly growing puffball is edible, but within weeks it starts to decompose and is toxic. The giant puffball is found throughout the world in temperate climates.

  • Brown-toothed Crust Fungus

    Brown-toothed Crust Fungus

    Brown-toothed Crust Fungus (Hydnoporia olivacea) is an olive-brown to reddish-brown leathery crust directly on wood surfaces, featuring a jagged, toothlike surface. It secrets chemicals to digest hardwood logs and branches.

  • Violet-toothed Polypore

    Violet-toothed Polypore fungus

    Violet-toothed Polypore (Trichaptum biforme) is an inedible common bracket fungus that is also known as violet-pored bracket fungus. It secrets chemicals to digest hardwood logs and stumps. Violet tooth is found in North America and other temperate climates.

  • Oak Bracket

    Oak Bracket fungi

    Oak Bracket (Pseudoinonotus dryadeus) is an inedible species of fungus often found growing at the base of oak trees. It is a parasite and primarily a root decay fungus, rotting the below-ground parts of roots. The blotches near the edges are secreted orange-brown liquid which weeps from tubes in its upper surface. Oak bracket is…

  • White Snakeroot

    White Snakeroot

    White Snakeroot (Ageratina altissima) is a native plant to eastern North America. Snakeroot can grow to almost 5 feet tall. It produces a single or multi-stemmed clumps in mid to late summer and fall. At the end of the upper branches, an umbrella collection of white flowers, measuring 2 to 6 inches across. Snakeroot can spread…

  • Full Moon Serenade (Hunter’s Moon) – October 25, 2026 @ 7:00 PM

    Full Moon over the pond on 2025-11-05

    WHO: Everybody is welcome WHAT: Singing at the benches by the pond. WHERE: Meet at the main entrance to Scarlett Mitchell Woods (the kiosk west of Scarlett Middle School and south of the bus turnaround loop). WHEN: 7:00 PM Sunday October 25, 2026 WHY: Get a different view of the woods in the dark. See…

  • Hare’s Foot Inkcap

    Hare's Foot Inkcap mushroom

    Hare’s Foot Inkcap (Coprinopsis lagopus) is a delicate and short-lived fungus, the fruit bodies lasting only a few hours before dissolving into a black ink – a process called deliquescence. This fungus was found on the loop trail path heading towards the pond. We had lots of rain in the last number of days.

  • Garlic Mustard Journal (May 10, 2026)

    May 10, 2026 - Garlic Mustard Journal

    From: Judy S.: On Mother’s Day I enjoyed a long session in the woods checking up on the garlic mustard status and decided to put it in journal form with photos.  It was an idyllic afternoon – weather just right, almost no one else in the woods and no traffic sounds. Mother’s Day – Session # 3(?)…

  • Chokecherry

    Chokecherry

    Chokecherry (Prunus Virginiana – Wikipedia) is a species of bird cherry native to North America. Chokecherries’ is a shrub, native from mid-Ohio to mid-Canada. Chokecherry leaf is oval 1 to 4 inches long and 1/2 to 2 inches wide. The leaf is dark green above with a paler underside. Chokecherry flowers are small, white, 5-petaled blossoms…

  • Yellowing Curtain Crust

    Yellowing Curtain Crust (Stereum subtomentosum)

    Yellowing Curtain Crust (Stereum subtomentosum – Wikipedia) is a tough, leathery bracket fungus that grows on dead hardwood, identified by its velvety, zoned, often greenish-brown cap and a distinct yellow staining reaction on its smooth underside when bruised or cut. Found year-round, it commonly causes white rot on dead beech and oak wood.