
Damp weather has made them pop up everywhere. Father Pitt thinks these are probably False Parasols (Chlorophyllum molybdites), also known as “the Vomiter,” and that latter name should probably be all the advice you need about trying to collect them.



Damp weather has made them pop up everywhere. Father Pitt thinks these are probably False Parasols (Chlorophyllum molybdites), also known as “the Vomiter,” and that latter name should probably be all the advice you need about trying to collect them.



Father Pitt believes this is some species of Sarcoscypha, but further than that he is unwilling to go (and apparently even mycologists have trouble unless you give them a microscope), and he may be wrong about the genus anyway. But it’s a remarkably bright red. It was growing on a stick in the leaf litter near the Trillium Trail in Fox Chapel.



A very decorative fungus growing on a log deep in the woods in Bird Park, Mount Lebanon.

Two different kinds of fungus growing on decaying logs in Bird Park, Mount Lebanon.


In Bird Park, Mount Lebanon.