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WHAT’S INSIDE:President’s Message ...................................................................................... 2Editor’s Notes ................................................................................................. 2Belleplain foray report ................................................................................ 3Bytes, Bits, & Bites ..................................................................... begins on 3Wash Those Mushrooms! ................................,........................................... 4“Fantastic Fungi” film now showing .......................................................... 4Finding Fungi ................................................................................................. 52019 Photo Contest winners list ................................................................. 62019 Photo Contest First Place winning photos .............................. 7 - 8Calendar of Upcoming Events ................................................................... 9Who’s In A Name?....................................................................................... 10Culinary Group revival .............................................................................. 11Borrowing from the NJMA Library ........................................................ 11Book Review: DIY Mushroom Cultivation ........................................... 13NJMA people you need to know ............................................................. 14Summary of 2019 Forays ........................................................................... 15Species list from our 2019 forays .................................................. 16 - 20

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VOLUME 50-1 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2020

Mucronella flava

PHOTO BY MARICEL PATINO

One of the species found at our NovemberBelleplain State Forest foray which is new

to our NJMA species list (see page 3)

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGENJMA is a volunteer organization. This club has doneamazing things with the kind hearted help of its volun-teers. The Holiday Party was awesome with VirginiaTomat, Aluen and Richard Kelly doing the decorating;Luke Smithson organizing the food; Igor Safonov doingregistration and food list; Mike Mudrak with mainte-nance; Jim Barg with the photo contest; Nina Marra andDave Wasilewski as volunteer photo judges, and somany others in the kitchen and clean up.Currently, NJMA dues are well below other clubs’. Thetremendous benefits for NJMA members include:forays, Fungus Fest, lectures and workshops. This is whyI am recommending that the dues be raised from $10 to$20 for individuals and $15 to $25 for families. In mynewsletter article about MycoBoutique (a great mush-room store in Montreal), I mentioned they charged $40to go on a foray. To stay viable, any organization has toevolve and that brings challenges.As clubs grow, they find the need to offer stipends andeventually start hiring people. Our Newsletter Editorand Graphic Designer should have their expensescovered. Volunteering time is very generous, butexpenses for club purposes should be compensated.These topics need further discussion and a clubconsensus.To learn about mushrooms is why I joined NJMA, butit has been the wonderful people in the club that haveencouraged me to stay.

– Frank Marra

WELCOME TO THEONLINE EDITION OF NJMA NEWSFor 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 blue web 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.

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EDITOR’S NOTESI will keep this very short since I am sure you havealready read enough of my prose in this issue: theLibrary, Mycophagy, the Culinary Group, etc.I just wanted to say a little something about the delaysin getting NJMA News to you on time. As a volunteerorganization, all of the costs of living have to be raisedin old-fashioned ways, like jobs, etc. Sorry – these dotake time away from getting the newsletter published.The Calendar of Upcoming Events in each issue ofNJMA News lets you put upcoming events on yourcalendar so that you won’t miss anything. We also sendout email “reminders” to let everyone know what eventsare coming up. And this year, all of the monthly eventsare later than usual so that there is a bit of leeway inplanning. Thanks for your patience.Please keep sending us articles, photos, etc. Links toarticles from other sources for the Bits, Bites, and Bytescolumn should be sent to Sue McClary [email protected]. All other submissions shouldbe sent to [email protected]. The deadline forNJMA News 50-2 is February 10th!

See you at Mycophagy! Don’t forget that this isMembers Only and pre-registration (no cost) is needed.Send a note to membership chairperson Igor Safonov [email protected] to let us know that you’recoming.

– Jim Richards

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FORAY REPORTSBELLEPLAIN STATE FOREST FORAYNOVEMBER 3RDby John Burghardt, NJMA Recorder

We found many interesting species including severalnew to our list. I was most struck by how few mycor-rhizal fungi came in. These fungi live with trees in amutually beneficial relationship. The fungi receive foodenergy (sugars) from the trees and provide the treeswith access to minerals, water, and protection againstdisease. By my count, we identified fewer than 20mycorrhizal species this week: Amanita, Hebeloma,Laccaria, Russula, Tricholoma, Rhizopogon, andScleroderma. We always see that the fruiting of mycor-rhizal fungi drops off in late fall. But we usually see lotsof Russula, Cortinarius, Laccaria, Lactarius, Tricho-loma, and Scleroderma in the Pine Barrens well intoDecember. Of course, Belleplain is not the Pine Barrens;it lies well to the south of the heart of the Pine Barrensin Ocean and Burlington Counties. Even so, theBelleplain woods had the feel of very late fall.As so often happens when we don’t find many mycor-rhizal species, two of those we did find were new to ourlist. Igor has made several collections of a Hebelomaspecies over two recent seasons, which were dried andsent to Dr. Henri Beker, a European expert on thegenus. Dr. Beker is currently studying North AmericanHebeloma. Dr. Beker confirmed that Igor’s collectionswere Hebeloma brunneifolium. The collections made atBelleplain were the first ones made at one of our forays.A second species identified for the first time is Suillusweaverae. A recent genetic study led to the naming ofthis new species. Several people made collections of it atBelleplain, and Igor made the identification. I believe thistaxon was formerly misidentified as Suillus granulatus.A third new species is Mucronella flava, which Maricelidentified. It is a delicate yellow, branching coral-likefungus. (See front page photo) Like many of Maricel’s finds,this one is best viewed through a good loupe.A fourth interesting find remains unnamed, but is prob-ably a Pouzarella. Jason collected this one and Nina tookit home for study. The fruiting body looks for all theworld like a Mycena. The fresh fruiting body had a dullgrayish-brown cap with dull brownish-cream gills. (Thecap dried to distinctly zonate and the gills dried topinkish brown.) But a smash mount of a gill edgerevealed very unusual-shaped (“funky”) spores that seemto fit Pouzarella. This one remains a work in progress.Our list this week includes several lichens, which areorganisms comprised of a fungus (usually anascomycete) and a plant (either an alga or cyanobac-terium). The fungus and plant live in a symbiotic rela-tionship. Lichens form crust-like, leaf-like, andbranching structures on rocks and tree trunks. I believe

each of these structures is represented on our list.Lichens do not affect the trees and rocks they live on.Thanks to Jason and Elizabeth for making these collec-tions and identifying them.A word of caution about collecting lichens. Please don’tcollect them unless you know what you’re doing.Lichens grow very slowly. I stopped collecting themafter I once collected a piece from a rock that DorothySmullen, our club lichen expert, told me had takenmany, many decades to reach the very small size of theorganism I had collected. Thanks to everyone who participated in collecting,sorting, and putting names to the fungi we found atBelleplain and throughout the season. I also want toacknowledge all that Nina Burghardt, the NJMA ForayChair, does to organize the forays, get everyone involved,and harass the unnamed fungi after each foray until atleast a few of them surrender a name. It is great fun, anda privilege, to visit all corners of New Jersey, meet peopleinterested in learning about fungi, and walk in beautifulforests, each with a distinctive habitat and feel.Please let me know of additions or corrections to theBelleplain list. Our NJMA activities go indoors for themonths of December to April. Check out our websitewww.njmyco.org for information about our programs.Hope to see you next year, if not before then. All the best!

from Liz Broderick: The Gospel of Mushrooms: How Foraging Became Hip

https://tinyurl.com/y3wynxesfrom the Editor:Everything you need to know to become a “MushroomPerson”:

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from Paul Sadowski:NYC unveiling video of Gary Lincoff Way, made by AlanEsner, October 18, 2019, 95th Street (10 minute videomay not work on mobile device)

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from Sue McClary:How Mushrooms came to symbolize good luck on theholidays

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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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WASH THOSE MUSHROOMSBEFORE COOKINGfrom Sally br’s 17 October 2015 Bewitching Kitchen blog (bewitch-ingkitchen.com) reviewing “The Food Lab” by J. Kenzi Lopez-Alt)

In one of my favorite chapters (Soups, Stews and theScience of Stock), he shares a great recipe for CreamyMushroom Soup. In that recipe, Kenji tackles thepersistent WRONG statement that they should not bewashed under running water because “mushrooms arelike sponges.” I swear, every time I hear a reputable chefspitting this nonsense, I scream at the screen. Who onEarth came up with that idea and, why oh why, it getsrepeated over and over? Kenji patiently goes over hisexperiments washing mushrooms and weighing them.Actually, you can soak them and after draining they willretain between 1 and 2% water, all on the surface. If youare paranoid about watering down your mushroomsaute (keep in mind you don’t water down anythingwith 2% water), dry them slightly with a paper towel, orcook them 10 seconds longer…Wash your mushrooms,folks! Toss that silly mushroom brush, it’s one biggadget scam. OK, I feel better now. So much better thatI will step off my soap box...

“FANTASTIC FUNGI” - THE FILMFINALLY ARRIVES INNJMA’S BACK YARDHi Jim,Here is a link to the “Film Society of Summit”:

https://www.summitfilmsociety.comScroll down to 1/24/20 event and you will find a docu-mentary “Fantastic Fungi” that will be shown on that dateand 1/31/20, along with panel discussions afterwards.

And then I came across the following:“Only 9 films got 100% Rotten Tomatoes in2019 ... Fantastic Fungi is one of them.”

– Janeen PisciattaAND... Another showing in Lambertville on Saturday,February 8, 5:45pm at the Acme Screening Room:“Fantastic Fungi” is a consciousness-shifting film thattakes us on an immersive journey through time and scaleinto the magical earth beneath our feet, an undergroundnetwork that can heal and save our planet. Through theeyes of renowned scientists and mycologists, we becomeaware of the beauty, intelligence and solutions the fungikingdom offer us in response to some of our mostpressing medical, therapeutic, and environmental chal-lenges. Chris Darrah of Mainly Mushrooms will bring adisplay of his mushrooms for purchase in the lobby.Joining us for discussion and Q&A will be Luke Smithson,former president of the NJ Mycological Association. ThenLuke will join us for a 3-course “mushroom themed”dinner at Lambertville Station. Purchase tickets athttps://tinyurl.com/s4qkn9x. Watch the trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxABOiay6oAEditor’s note: I have also requested a review copy of thecompanion book for our club library.

WELCOME TO ALL OF OURNEW NJMA MEMBERS!

We’d like to extend a warm welcome to the followingmembers who joined us between

November 6, 2019 and January 11, 2020.We look forward to seeing you at lectures, forays,

and other NJMA events.Happy ’shrooming!

Marie Alfano Rochelle Park, NJLeslie Aufseeser Ocean, NJBonnie Carsia Shamong, NJMaria Castles Blairstown, NJJohn Forrestal Winthrop, MAMaryellen Gabay West Milford, NJRoberto Gambino Moonachie, NJJack Giller Frenchtown, NJNeil King Collingswood, NJThomas Kovacs Oak Ridge, NJSamantha Lee Brooklyn, NYJames Lemieux Jackson, NJMichael Palmisano Keyport, NJCathy Pfeiffer Ridgefield, NJJeffrey Porter Asbury Park, NJConnor Rath Freehold, NJOlivia & Damon Smith Egg Harbor Twp., NJChas Surran Salem, NJLisa Thompson-Eisler Collingswood, NJLaura Wangerin Summit, NJ

NJMACulinaryGroup

Announcing the return of the

Saturday March 28Unitarian Society, East Brunswick

See page11

for details

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FINDING FUNGI: ZOOS, HERBARIA, ANDSCIENCE MUSEUMSby Sue McClary

Zoos? If you are a member, you know fungi are notanimals and would not be in a zoo!But a myxomycete, a slime mold (Physarum poly-cephalum), went on display on October 19, 2019 at theParis Zoological Park (https://tinyurl.com/y5sjhqfn). Itmoves to find food. If you attended one of our FungusFests, you would have already seen Phil Layton's slimemolds in action. Herbaria? Yes, herbaria often have collections of fungi.Today, herbaria are digitizing their collections of fungaldrawings, paintings, and photographs and creatingshort videos about their collections. Here is one fromthe New York Botanical Gardens on Kohlmeyer’sMarine Fungi Herbarium move to the NYBG fromseveral years ago (https://tinyurl.com/y48aumkn). Youcan also view the NYBG mushroom paintings online(https://tinyurl.com/wojvsxg) or explore the NYBG’sC.V. Starr Virtual Herbarium on your own(https://tinyurl.com/rrwaqtv).Are you interested in more? Mycoportal.org now includeslinks and/or data from over 100 herbaria, university, ormuseum fungi collections mostly from those within theUS or Canada (https://tinyurl.com/s736spl).You can see the online exhibit for Amanita phalloides(death cap mushroom) at the Harvard University’smuseum website (https://tinyurl.com/u79zdfq) or readabout the history of mycological illustration(https://tinyurl.com/vpvvnqf). Read about CharlesHorton Peck and his 33,600 mycological specimens at theNew York State Museum (https://tinyurl.com/vsyo7qy).Or at the Canadian National Mycological Herbarium,read about how Amanita jacksonii is connected to thefamed Canadian Group of Seven artists(https://tinyurl.com/rzetzby).But how about a place to visit a permanent fungiexhibit, the old-fashioned way, in person? Surprisingly,exhibits at natural history or science museums seemhard to find. Their exhibits seem as temporary as themushroom fruiting bodies themselves. One company isrenting a traveling mushroom exhibit. You can find outwhat city it currently is at by using this link(https://tinyurl.com/wtxaxc3). For those who have been interested in mushrooms for awhile, you may remember that Phillips MushroomFarms, Kennett Square, PA used to have a mushroommuseum, but it is now listed as being closed. Whatremains is at a nearby mushroom store.What about the American Museum of Natural Historyin NYC? Surely it would have a permanent mushroom

exhibit. And indeed it does. But it was only afteranother member, whose daughter visited the museum,confirmed that it existed, that I was successful in findingonline proof as nothing was findable using the museumwebsite. Here is a close-up photo of the Hall ofBiodiversity fungi (https://tinyurl.com/v9blkxq).Contrast this to the mushroom display from 1931 nearthe bottom of these historical pictures(https://tinyurl.com/sxde99d).Does the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, NJcurrent microbe exhibit contain any fungi?(https://tinyurl.com/tka752d). I do not know, but keepan eye out for future science exhibits that might covermycoremediation and other applications for fungi.Why are there not more permanent mushroom exhibits?The British have a history of ‘models of fungi’, as far backas 1844, to help the public learn to distinguish poisonousand edible fungi (https://tinyurl.com/rc4mpo4).Museum fungi exhibits made of wax, paper mache, glass,and even freeze-dried specimens have and continue toexist. Below are some places to look for fungi ‘indoors’.Linville, NC, Grandfather Mountain, the NatureMuseum has Paul Marchand wax mushroom creations.At the time of his death in 1996, Paul Marchand’s workwas displayed in more than 40 other institutions in theUnited States and Canada, including the SmithsonianInstitution, the Natural History Museum of LosAngeles, and Chicago’s Field Museum of NaturalHistory (https://tinyurl.com/vnkj5pr).Cambridge, MA - Harvard Museum of Natural Historyheld an event in October 2019 with interactive ways toget children involved with fungi, changing known gameslike ‘Operation’ to ‘Fungi Operation’ and having themremove gills (https://tinyurl.com/y26wl8hv). Warner, NH - Little Nature Museum. A 14 speciesfungi exhibit and an exhibit with many lichen(https://tinyurl.com/tbv3bq7). They prove a museumdoes not have to be big to display fungi.Providence, RI - Nature Lab, Rhode Island School ofDesign’s Micropolis collection includes glass slides offungal spores to explore with a compound microscope,or in Tiny Town, you can see mushrooms online undera stereomicroscope (https://tinyurl.com/yx6ptlgk).Roanoke, WV - Science Museum of West Virginia has afungi kingdom exhibit (https://tinyurl.com/y29j3866).Adelaide, Australia - Santos Museum of EconomicBotany in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. A collectionof 210 paper mache models of fungi in different stagesof growth, by Heinrich Arnoldi of Gotha, Germany,dating from 1872 to 1888. A stucco finish gives them a

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realistic look (https://tinyurl.com/rf2bpzk andhttps://tinyurl.com/rskoumv).Zagreb, Croatia - A 250 square meter mushroommuseum opened in 2013 that is entirely different. Theyhave display cases of freeze dried (lyophilized) mush-rooms side by side, like a rock collection display. Noexplanatory info, but the mushrooms look very muchalive, maintaining form, color and size(https://tinyurl.com/u6fkeq7).Estonia - In 2014, its Natural History Museum made atemporary exhibit with real-life mushrooms(https://tinyurl.com/yxytqos9). (Sorry we missed thisone).Kalampaka, Greece - The Natural History Museum ofMeteora & Mushroom Museum uses realistic paintedsculptures in dioramas. Be sure to play the video, withEnglish subtitles, on their webpage. It is a wonderfulsummary of fungi diversity (https://tinyurl.com/y4vhy174).Amsterdam, Netherlands - A permanent exhibition atMicropia, a museum dedicated to microbes, “A FungalFuture” showcases an array of everyday objects madefrom fungi. (https://tinyurl.com/sh8f657 andhttps://tinyurl.com/s9jj7zz)Cambridge, UK - The Whipple Museum displayed itsmicroscopic fungi made of glass in 2010. You can stillsee its downy mildew model online(https://tinyurl.com/qjw3wlh).

COMPLETE LIST OF WINNERSNJMA PHOTO CONTEST 2019

PICTORIALFIRST Stef Bierman

SECOND Shawn DeIanniHONORABLE MENTION Stef Bierman

TECHNICALFIRST Stef Bierman

SECOND Keara GiannottiHONORABLE MENTION Keara Giannotti

JUDGES’ OPTIONFIRST Keara Giannotti

SECOND Keara GiannottiHONORABLE MENTION Keara Giannotti

NOVICE DIVISION

PICTORIALFIRST Maricel Patino

SECOND Lyla R. MeaderHONORABLE MENTION Lyla R. Meader

TECHNICALFIRST Lyla R. Meader

SECOND Maricel PatinoHONORABLE MENTION Maricel Patino

JUDGES’ OPTIONFIRST Susan Hopkins

SECOND Maricel PatinoHONORABLE MENTION Susan Hopkins

ADVANCED DIVISION

BEST IN SHOWMaricel Patino

Congratulations to the winners, and a big “thank you” to allthose who entered – and thank you to all of the judges and

NJMA officers and volunteers who helped to make thisyear’s photo contest a wonderful success!

View the winners on our website – www.njmyco.org

MANY THANKS TO OUR2019 PHOTO CONTEST JUDGESOn behalf of all of the members of NJMA, we’d like tothank the judges of the 2019 Photo Contest: Klaus PeterSteitz, Dave Wasilewski, and Nina Marra. You had abig job and your time does not go unrecognized!

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BEST IN SHOWMycena haematopus

MARICEL PATINOPHOTOGRAPHER

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ADVANCED PICTORIAL – MARICEL PATINOMycena haemotopus

ADVANCED TECHNICAL – LYLA R. MEADERNeoflavus alveolaris

ADVANCED JUDGES’ OPTION – SUSAN HOPKINS“Elk Lake Variety”

NOVICE JUDGES’ OPTION – KEARA GIANNOTTI“Blue Ridge Lobster”

NOVICE TECHNICAL – STEF BIERMANPleurotus ostreatus

NOVICE PICTORIAL – STEF BIERMAN

(A complete list of all winners is on page 6.)

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CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS

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

NOTE NEW DATE!Saturday, February 291:30pm

MYCOPHAGY AND MYCOAUCTION OUR MOST POPULAR ANNUAL EVENTUnitarian Society, Tices Lane, East Brunswick Members only– Registration required.Contact Igor Safonov at [email protected] if you’re planning to attend.Mycophagy began in 1978 as a way to teach our members how professional chefs cookmushrooms. For the first few years, our members supplied the mushrooms that theyhad collected and dried or frozen for the chefs to work with. When Phillips MushroomFarms of Kennett Square became involved, the range of mushroom recipes available todemonstrate expanded exponentially – both in varieties available and techniques thatcould be used with them. Come and learn from one of NJMA’s highest rated chefs, LukeSmithson. Dishes will be sampled and recipes will be distributed.Newcomers, take note: Space is strictly limited and pre-registration is a must!A Myco-auction will be held before, during, and after the cooking demo.Start collecting contributions of any mushroom-related items, i.e. dried mushrooms,books, china, photographs, art, curios, etc., etc., etc.!!! Please email Jim Richards([email protected]) to let him know what you will be contributing.WE NEED YOUR STUFF!

Sunday, March 221:30pm

MEETING & LECTURE Frelinghuysen Arboretum, MorristownSpeaker and topic to be announced.

Saturday, March 286:00pm

NJMA CULINARY GROUP DINNER A MUSHROOM SAMPLERUnitarian Center, Tices Lane, East BrunswickPre-registration required ([email protected]) See article on page 11.

Sunday, April 191:30pm

MEETING & LECTURE Frelinghuysen Arboretum, MorristownGuest speaker: Christian Schwarz. Topic to be announced.Christian Schwarz is a mushroom enthusiast and taxonomist and citizen scienceadvocate from Santa Cruz, the land of milk (caps) and honey (mushrooms). He studiedat UCSC, and now spends his time photographing, teaching about, and makingscientific collections of macrofungi. He is coauthor of Mushrooms of the RedwoodCoast, and is slowly building a mycoflora for Santa Cruz County. He also writes a blog called Notes of a Mycophile.

SAVE THE DATES!June 26 - 28

NJMA’S VICTOR GAMBINO WEEKEND FORAYKirkwood Retreat Center, Bangor, PAGuest mycologist: Dr. Roy Halling, Curator Emeritus, Mycology, NY Botanical GardensThe Kirkridge Retreat Center is along the Appalachian Trail near Bangor, Pennsylvaniain a dorm-like setting. Forays will take place in the southern portion of the beau-tiful Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. Room and board for the weekendwill run about $280.00 – 300.00. We will send an email blast with more information aswe have more specific information on registration, which will be available online.Contact Liz Broderick at [email protected] with any questions.

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Academy three years later and a life fellow in 1923. In1909, he joined the newly reorganized Botanical Societyof America and became an associate editor of thejournal Mycologia that was founded that year. Hecontinued in that post until 1933, the year both that heretired and that publication of Mycologia was takenover by the Mycological Society of America.Of Banker’s eighteen mycological papers,3 all but twowere published either in Mycologia or in journals of theTorrey Botanical Club, sixteen of them during the ten

years he was at DePauw. His most importantcontributions were “A contribution to a revi-

sion of the North American Hydnaceae”(1909) and the seven-part series “Type

studies in the Hydnaceae” (1912–14) thatsummarized the results of his examina-tion during the summer of 1910 of typespecimens of hydnums in Europeanherbaria. His last mycological articleappeared in 1929.Fifteen years before that, Banker hadresigned his professorship at DePauwand changed careers. He had longhad an interest in genealogy and, in1909, had published an extensivegenealogy of the Banker family,recording not only dates of births,deaths and marriages, but “height,weight, hair color, and eye color” aswell as “temperament, memory, …

talent” and causes of death of the indi-viduals listed!4 In pursuit of that

interest, he moved to Cold SpringHarbor, Long Island, in 1914 and spent

the rest of his working life on the staff of theEugenics Record Office of the CarnegieInstitution of Washington’s Station forExperimental Evolution. His studies therefocused on human genetics, in later years in

an effort to advance the theory of aristogenesis (definedin Merriam-Webster as the then widely-held, but nowdiscredited, view that “evolution is the product of acontinuous orderly creative faculty innate in livingmatter” that is “manifested in response to externalstimuli at such a rate that perfection of an adaptationanticipates the need for that adaptation.”)Following Banker’s death, his wife Mary donated hisherbarium to the New York Botanical Garden.

WHO’S IN A NAME?The family Bankeraceaeby John Dawson (seventy-sixth in a series)

The family Bankeraceae comprises several genera oftooth fungi, including Phellodon, Hydnellum, andSarcodon (and until recently, Bankera, now subsumedunder Phellodon). It was named after the Americanmycologist Howard James Banker, who was born inSchaghticoke, New York, on 19 April 1866 and died inHuntington, New York, on 13 November 1940. I have found little information about Banker’syouth, but he attended college at SyracuseUniversity, from which he graduated in 1892.For three years thereafter, he taught at TroyConference Academy, a Methodist institu-tion in Poultney, Vermont, that wasfounded in 1834 and eventually becameGreen Mountain College, an environ-mentally-focused school that closed dueto financial exigency in the spring of2019. At the Academy, Banker preparedto become a Methodist pastor, andwhile there, on 23 August 1894, hemarried Mary Eugenia Wright. Hiscareer in the ministry, however, wasshort-lived: He was pastor at UnionChurch in Proctor, Vermont from 1895to 1898, but then enrolled at ColumbiaUniversity, from which he received anA.M. in 1901 and a Ph.D. in 1906.1Among his teachers, there was LucienMarcus Underwood, profiled in thetwelfth installment of this series.It was at Columbia that Banker first beganto study the Hydnaceae, the principal focusof his work in mycology. His first mycologicalpaper appeared in 1901 while he was teachingmathematics (not biology) at DickinsonSeminary in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.2 Hethen taught biology for three years at SouthwesternNormal School in California, Pennsylvania (nowCalifornia University of Pennsylvania), before acceptinga position in 1904 as professor of biology at DePauwUniversity in Greencastle, Indiana. While studying for his master’s degree, Banker hadjoined the Torrey Botanical Club, and in 1902 hebecame a member of the American Association for theAdvancement of Science. He was elected a fellow of the

Howard J. Banker

1 According to the obituary memoir of Banker by John Hendley Barnhart, published in Mycologia, vol. 33, no. 4 (July-August 1941), pp. 341– 343 —the source for most of the information in this profile, as well as for the portrait of Banker. The Wikipedia article on Banker, however, gives 1908 asthe year Banker received his Ph.D. 2 A preparatory school for Dickinson College that eventually evolved into Lycoming College.3 A complete list of those papers is given at the end of the obituary memoir by Barnhart cited above in footnote 1.4 Quoted from the obituary memoir by Barnhart.

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A CULINARY GROUP “REVIVAL”SATURDAY, MARCH 28TH, 6:00PM UNITARIAN CENTER, EAST BRUNSWICK, NJby Jim Richards, Culinary Group Chairperson

What is the Culinary Group and where did it go? TheNJMA Culinary Group was started in 1983 as a way formembers to get together and enjoy a planned meal.While NJMA has a number of potluck events wherefood is shared, the Culinary Group differs in offering setmenus – usually based on the foods of a particularcuisine. Mushroom dishes are a significant part of mostof the menus. We have had Mushroom Pates at some ofthe French dinners, Mushroom Ceviche at anArgentinian Cookout and Lactarius corrugis Pizzas at aLocavore Picnic. The dinners offer members a chance toenjoy great food in a relaxed setting and to get to knowtheir fellow members over a glass or two of wine, beeror tea and coffee.In the past, a few members have done the work of plan-ning the theme, finding the recipes and assigning them,setting up the tables, etc., and cleaning up afterwards.Ideally, we would do three dinners a year: one in theSpring, another in the Fall, and a cook-out in Summer.If you are interested, I will be glad to send you a list ofthe dinners and the menus. Each cook submits a copy of their expenses for theingredients used in preparing their dish. The costs areadded together and divided by the number of attendees.The average price for these multi-course feasts has beenabout $18.00 per person.After the meal, the participants are sent copies of all therecipes along with any comments by the preparers.We are looking for people that are willing to help revivethe group. There is a small group of members that havebeen helping with set-up, clean up, and so on, but theyneed a “leader”.If you are interested in helping the Culinary Group getstarted again, please contact me (Jim Richards) [email protected] and we can plan on gettingtogether. We can always talk at the winter meetings, as well.

To sign up for a mushroom-themed dinner at theUnitarian Center in East Brunswick at 6:00 pm,Saturday, March 28th, contact Marja Van Ouwerkerk([email protected]) to register.

BORROWING FROM NJMA’SROBERT H. PEABODY LIBRARYby Jim Richards

Did you know that your NJMA Membership Card isalso a library card? Well, it is!Thanks to the generosity of members, NJMA has one ofthe finest mycological libraries of any “mushroom club”– over 700 titles and 1100 volumes. The addition ofmany “review copies” of the latest titles means that ourmembers can “test drive” field guides, cookbooks,monographs, and so much more before adding them totheir home libraries. If there are titles you are lookingfor, contact Jim Richards, our Librarian, at [email protected] to see if they are available.

Library Borrowing Guidelines and Procedure:1. New members with less than one year’s member-ship must provide a driver’s license or similar identifi-cation before they can borrow books. All otherborrowers should be willing to leave a phone number,email address or home address so Jim Richards cankeep track of the materials.2. Loans will be limited to one book at a time unlessspecial arrangements are made.3. It is the responsibility of the borrower to return thebook to Jim when due (the lending period is generallyfour weeks). Books can be returned at meetings orforays. If Jim is not there, the book can be returned toNina Burghardt or one of the club officers.4. If it is not possible to return borrowed material in atimely manner at a club event, the borrower is respon-sible for the cost of shipping the book back to JimRichards.5. Contact Jim ([email protected]) two weeksbefore you would like to borrow materials and he willarrange to have them brought to the next event.6. Because of value or rarity, some material does notcirculate. Arrangements can be made for members toexamine the material on-site by contacting Jim. Thelibrary is housed in three locations: Jim’s home(review copies, cookbooks, wild foods), theBurghardt’s (taxonomy, collectibles) and TerriLayton’s (the older collection)

A random selection of books is available at most wintermeetings and forays. A complete library catalog will belisted on our website shortly.NJMA will accept books, magazines, and educationalDVDs from those who would like to donate them.Contact Jim ([email protected]) or Frank Marra([email protected]).

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from the Editor:Turning Paris’s underground car parks into mushroomsfarms: https://tinyurl.com/y5n63nds

from the Editor:Cautions on consuming Chicken mushrooms

https://tinyurl.com/ybaa9ozl

from Sue McClary:Russians, chanterelles, and pie:

https://tinyurl.com/usahnll

from the Editor:Kentucky’s bourbon industry is covering its neighbors inblack fungus:

https://tinyurl.com/yykabp6c

from Sue McClary:Lactic acid fermentation of edible mushrooms:

https://tinyurl.com/y3d3ogbv

from Sue McClary:Are mushrooms the new meat?

https://tinyurl.com/y2k7jfnv

from Sue McClary:IKEA switches to mushroom-based packaging:

https://tinyurl.com/y2aqxrpb

from Sue McClary:Best places in the World to Travel If You LoveMushrooms:

https://tinyurl.com/y6qtka8z

from The New York Times:On the Hunt for Mushrooms in Central Oregon:

https://tinyurl.com/qvg72qa

from the Editor:A Wave of Colorful ‘Coral’ Fungi Is Washing Over Wales:

https://tinyurl.com/tbr3tlu

from Judy Glattstein:‘Rare Clavaria zollingeri found on the Wales’ LlynPeninsula: https://tinyurl.com/yypmoqwj

from Gary Makus:‘Some mushrooms are on the endangered list:

https://tinyurl.com/rqsbfml

from the Editor:Copenhagen Wants You to Forage on Its City Streets:

https://tinyurl.com/vn2r9ag

from Sue McClary:Mycoremediation after the California fires:

https://tinyurl.com/yyewkyab

from Gary Makus:China Medicinal Mushroom Conference (NJMA makesno endorsement):

https://tinyurl.com/uubqm5q

from Sue McClary:Mushroom chitosan fiber as an all-natural preservativeingredient:

https://tinyurl.com/y67e2yl2

from Warren Marchioni:Maybe it is the convergence of fungi season andHalloween, but there seems to be inordinate interest inthe fungus Cordyceps lately in literature and film. DavidKopp’s novel “Cold Storage”, M.R. Carey’s novel “TheGirl With All the Gifts”, and now a videogame “The Lastof Us”:

https://tinyurl.com/wnz2oor

from Richard Silber:Greetings, fellow Mycophiles:I’m Rick Silber, and I’m on the Board of Directors of theMycological Association of Washington, D.C. I recentlylaunched a new project that is a longtime dream of mine.I created International Mountain Trekking, Inc. (IMT), asmall company that offers custom-designed trips to theHimalayas, one of the most beautiful and fascinatingregions in the world. I want to let your members knowabout a very special mushroom-oriented trek IMT isoffering this June to Everest Base Camp, at the height ofNepal’s mushroom season. The trek will be led by ShivaDevkota, Ph.D., Nepal’s leading mycologist. Dr. Devkotawill join experienced Sherpa guides to lead this trekthrough rugged forested terrain, deep river-carved gorgesand multiple climate zones that support dozens of rareand interesting mushrooms, plants and medicinal herbs.We will stay at comfortable mountain lodges, and ourevenings will be spent learning about (and, when possible,cooking and eating) the mushrooms we’ve found duringour forays, and about the ecological and evolutionaryprocesses at work in this mountainous region. Here’s avideo about the trek: https://tinyurl.com/trwojbx. The16-day trek, which runs from June 13 through June 28,2020, will culminate at the picturesque village of Phortse,home to our Sherpa guides and the Khumbu ClimbingCenter, and will coincide with the Buddhist festival of

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Chapter 7 is all about the fruiting and the many vesselsand substrate options that exist for fruiting.Chapter 8 covers outdoor growing and what to do withyour spent blocks, which often end up outside.Chapter 9 is the final product and how to harvest,process, cook, use for medicine, mycoremediation anddifferent art you could create.Appendix 1 has basic, but nice, species profiles coveringmushroom descriptions, ecology, methods of cultivation,difficulty level and yield, growth parameters, medicinaland nutritional properties, culinary value and use fortwelve of the most commonly cultivated food and medic-inal mushrooms. Appendix 2 has a lengthy list ofresources which covers everything from spores, supplies,further reading, stores, education, and gatherings.I think this is a great book for a beginner or someonelooking to grow some mushrooms as a hobby or small-scale production. As a more experienced grower, I wasexcited to learn a few new tricks and methods that I’venever ventured into, like liquid cultures and differentsterilization techniques. Some of them I’d never botherwith personally (unless I’m a survivor of the apoca-lypse), but I can appreciate that anyone, anywhere, canattempt to grow mushrooms to feed themselves. Hecovers options for spawn expansion for people whocan’t obtain or afford to spare the simple grains (theusual medium for spawn expansion) to use to grow acrop through more advanced lab techniques requiringsometimes-expensive equipment. He encourages usingvarious containers that could be found in the trashand/or recycled for growing in (something once againaccessible to almost everyone). Anyone can use thisbook to start growing mushrooms – from those withincredibly limited resources, in urban settings and verysmall spaces, to farms with large amounts of land andnatural resources. He touches on many ideas of eco-consciousness like using invasive plant material forsubstrates and other waste for substrate. The problemso many of us growers battle with (horrible single-useplastics) is mentioned and alternatives offered. There isa fun section encouraging us to think like a mushroomwith twelve or so actions to follow.(Editor’s note: Stef is co-owner of Smiling Earth Mushrooms in LongBranch, NJ. (www.smilingearthfarm.com) and Secretary of NJMA)

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BOOK REVIEW DIY MUSHROOM CULTIVATION: GROWING MUSHROOMS AT HOME FORFOOD, MEDICINE AND SOILa review by Stef Bierman

DIY Mushroom Cultivation:Growing Mushrooms at Homefor Food, Medicine and Soilby Willoughby ArevaloNew Society Publishers (June 2019)208 pages

ISBN-10: 0865718954ISBN-13: 978-0865718951

When the opportunity to review this book for thenewsletter came along, I jumped on it! Despite myhistory with cultivation of mushrooms, I’ve never actu-ally read a cultivation book. I’ve learned everything bywatching and doing. I attended a class taught by theauthor along with Robert Rogers and Olga Tsogas,which was quite intimate and intense – about 20strangers in a house in the woods for three days, eatingand learning together. Willoughby was knowledgeableand entertaining, but researching more after the class, Ifound no website, Facebook or other way to easily getmore from him, until this book.The book is informative and thorough. The artwork anddiagrams were helpful, and enhanced my grasp of thetopics. Some of his refreshing views, such as shifting ourway of speaking from old terms such as “colonization” (arather European/human term) to “myceliation” comethrough in the text. And “gasteroid”. Do you know of anyother beings that make their reproductive units instomach-like structures? I think we should call thesespecies the uteroid fungi. These ways of thinking carryover into his cultivation methods as well.Chapter 1 covers mushroom basics, includingtaxonomy and life cycle.Chapters 2 and 3 discuss the many details of designingyour business, workspaces, tools, lab setup. Options forgrowing spaces range from hanging a bag in yourshower to larger climate-controlled fruiting rooms, themany details of which are discussed.Chapter 4 covers sanitation, the contamination thatinevitably will occur, how mushrooms are made to dealwith it, and how we should deal with it. I laughed at amethod for dealing with insects – vacuuming them upfrom the air, which works but looks quite silly if youdon’t know what is going on!Chapter 5 is about starting and maintaining culturesfrom spore prints to liquid syringes, agar and cardboard– all with step-by-step instructions.Chapter 6 covers grain spawn and the many methods ofsterilization and transfer.

Dumji. I would love to have some of your members partic-ipate in this trek. Space is limited, however, and interestedparticipants need to reserve spots as soon as possible. Iwould greatly appreciate if you would pass this informa-tion on to your membership. If you or any of yourmembers are interested in participating in this trek, orwould like to receive additional detailed information,please click on our website: www.imt-nepal.com, emailInternational Mountain Trekking at [email protected],or call me directly at 202-255-1191.

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OFFICERSPresident Frank MarraVice President Sue McClaryTreasurer Igor SafonovSecretary Stefanie Bierman

TRUSTEESMelanie SpockDorothy SmullenLiz BroderickLuke SmithsonJim Richards

NJMA 2020 COMMITTEE CHAIRS AND ACTIVITY/ INTEREST GROUP LEADERS

Archives/Historian Phil LaytonCultivation Frank KushnirDyeing/Arts Ursula PohlEducation** Luke SmithsonForays** Nina BurghardtRay Fatto/Gene Varney Herbarium*** Dorothy SmullenFungus Fest Liz BroderickRobert H. Peabody Library Jim RichardsMembership** Igor SafonovMicroscopy Mike RubinNAMA representative Ursula PohlNEMF representatives Mike Rubin, Dorothy SmullenNewsletter** Editor – Jim Richards

Art Director – Jim BargNominating** John Burghardt, Nancy Addotta,

Dorothy SmullenOutreach** Nancy AddottaRecorder John BurghardtRay Fatto Scholarship** Mike RubinSocial Media Maricel PatinoTaxonomy** Nina BurghardtSpecial Events

Mycophagy Jim RichardsHoliday Party Virginia TomatPhoto Contest Jim Barg

Victor Gambino Foray Liz BroderickWebsite Jim Barg

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REPORT ON 2019 COLLECTIONSAT NJMA FORAYSby John Burghardt, RecorderNew Jersey Mycological Association

The 2019 collecting season brought many enthusiasticmushroomers to our forays. On the whole, conditionswere very good, and we found many interesting fungi.True, the mycorrhizal fungi, and especially boletes, gotoff to a slow start in July and early August. And, as springrains gave way to drier conditions by mid-summer, Iremember wondering each week whether the upcomingforay would be the one where our luck ran out. Thatfinally happened at a couple of our late season forays.Cattus Island was dry. At Estelle Manor, a fine drizzlewhile we were collecting became a hard rain and we iden-tified under cover of a picnic pavilion. Both of theseforays were very productive, memorable and great fundespite (or maybe because of ) the adverse conditions. Inthe end, we found about as many mycorrhizal fungi thisyear as we found in 2018 and nearly as many taxa, afteradjusting for the smaller number of forays in 2019. The accompanying table lists the 708 taxa identifiedalphabetically within “form groups”, which are defined bythe characteristics of the spore-bearing surface of thefungus. The table also shows the date and location of eachforay. We had 14 regular weekend forays, and recorded asseparate “forays”: 1) the fungi from a Friday foray withmiddle school science teachers at the NJ School ofConservation near Stokes State Forest, 2) our FungusFest, where the public brings fungi from various locationsfor display and identification, and 3) our ongoing surveyof fungi at Franklin Parker Preserve. All form groups were represented in our collections thisyear. By far, the most prevalent form group was the gilledfungi with 335 taxa. Ascomycetes and Polypores each had80 taxa and Boletes had 54. We also had an unusualnumber of Crust fungi with 39 species. A total of 72 species were recorded for the first time at anNJMA foray in 2019. These new-to-the-list species fell in

13 of the 15 form groups. Eleven individuals contributedthese first-time identifications, although Maricel Patinoand Nina Burghardt together contributed over two-thirdsof these new identifications. We also benefitted fromvisits by guest experts from other clubs. Ethan Crensonattended the Wawayanda Foray in September, which washeld jointly with the New York Mycological Association.John and Kim Plischke visited in early November andwent to Wells Mill Park, Franklin Parker Preserve, andour final regular foray at Belleplain State Forest. Ethancontributed three new species names, and Johncontributed six.I wanted to briefly discuss three of the Tomentella speciesthat Maricel identified for the first time in the Crustgroup. One of these, Tomentellopsis echinospora, wasoriginally described from Newfield, New Jersey by JBEllis, a mycologist who lived and worked in Newfieldfrom the mid-1870s until the early 1900s. This species, aswell as Tomentella ferruginea and Tomentella lapida arefuzzy white or whitish crusts that most of us pass bybecause we have no hope of identifying them. The reallyneat thing about them is that they are mycorrhizal, notsaprobic. Most crusts are saprobic – they draw nutritionfrom the dead wood they live on by dissolving ligninand/or cellulose in the wood. But the Tomentella species,like Amanitas or Boletes, obtain their nutrition byextending their hyphae to find tree roots, which theyencrust to establish a pathway for the exchange ofresources with the host tree. Kudos to Maricel for morethan doubling the number of Tomentella species on ourcumulative list.I also wanted to say a word about our foray at ChestnutBranch Park in Mantua Township, Gloucester County.This was our first venture into the southwestern part ofNew Jersey along the Delaware River. Chestnut Branch isa tributary of Mantua Creek which flows into theDelaware River near Paulsboro, NJ, directly across fromPhiladelphia International Airport. The foray location is atrail along the stream through a steep ravine filled with abeautiful mature, mixed hardwood forest. The manyspecies of nut trees confer what, to my north Jersey sensi-bility, is a very southern feel to the landscape. It was alovely walk, with NJMA members from the area as well asmembers of the Gloucester County Nature Club. Notsurprisingly, the walk was also very productive – 128species were identified, of which 24 were collected only atthis location in 2019 and five were new to our cumulativeNJMA list. In closing, I want to thank all the members and manynonmembers who came to our forays. Your interest,questions, carefully collected specimens, help withsorting, and help with identification make this activityfun. Please be aware that your collections contribute tothe documentation of the diverse fungi of New Jersey.I hope to see you at one of our winter meetings and in thewoods again in 2020.

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2019 FORAY LOCATIONS AND DATESPrinceton Institute Woods Mercer Saturday, May 4, 2019

New Jersey School of Conservation Sussex Friday, June 28, 2019

Stokes State Forest Lake Ocquittunk Sussex Sunday, July 14, 2019

Meadowoods Park Morris Saturday, July 20, 2019

Stephens State Park Warren Sunday, July 28, 2019

Thompson/Helmetta County Park Middlesex Sunday, August 18, 2019

Teetertown Ravine/Crystal Spring Hunterdon Sunday, August 25, 2019

Stokes State Forest Kittle Field Sussex Sunday, September 8. 2019

Chestnut Branch Park Gloucester Sunday, September 15, 2019

Fungus Fest [diverse] Sunday, September 22, 2019

Wawayanda State Park Passaic Saturday, September 28, 2019

Wells Mills County Park Ocean Sunday, October 6, 2019

Cattus Island County Park Ocean Sunday, October 13, 2019

Estell Manor Park Atlantic Sunday, October 20, 2019

Forest Resource Education Center Ocean Saturday, October 26, 2019

Belleplain State Forest Cape May Sunday, November 3, 2019

Franklin Parker Preserve Burlington 18 visits February-November 2019

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