Fungi

Fungi include mushrooms, conks, mold and ‘rusts’. Some fungi eat dead stuff, such as the stumps we have left in the bog. Some fungi have beneficial symbiotic relationships with the hemlock and pines found in the bog and around the edge. These fungi are found in the soil beneath your feet, but you only see them when they produce a fruiting body above the soil. Lichens are a symbiotic relationship between fungi and algae where the fungus farms the algae, and provides the algae with a place to live.

Polypores

 

Common Name	Scientific Name
Chicken of the Woods	Laetiporus conifericola

Mushrooms

Common Name	Scientific Name
Yellow Staghorn	Calocera viscosa
Orange Jelly	Dacrymyces palmatus
Bonnet	Mycena sp.
Bird’s Nest Fungus	Nidula candida
Russula	Russula sp.
Brown Roll-Rim	Paxillus involutus

Lichens

Common Name	Scientific Name
Lipstick Lichen	Cladonia cristata
Fairy Puke	Icmadophila ericetorum
Heath Navel	Lichenomphalia umbellifera
Frog Pelt Lichen	Peltigera neopolydactyla