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**Yet more mushroom
reports today!
**Brian Coyle found a velvet-top
mushroom, a.k.a. dyer's mushroom, growing on the stump of a spruce tree in
his yard. Its top is very much like velvet, but bruises easily. The underside
looks like brain coral. Apparently, artists prize it for its vibrant dyes.
Brian Coyle shares two videos
he took recently with excellent audio about the king bolete mushroom and shaggy parasol mushrooms (they can grow quite large). Brian comments that it was his first time
finding king boletes, but after this finding, they were popping up everywhere.
The shaggy parasol mushrooms were in the same spot he had found them in other
years but were more numerous this year.
(Editor's note: the king bolete has a fishnet pattern just below the stipe to help identify it, which is arrowed.)
These two excellent videos can be seen at the links below:
KING BOLETE MUSHROOM. SEPTEMBER 19, 2026. BRIAN COYLE
KING BOLETE MUSHROOM. SEPTEMBER 19, 2026. BRIAN COYLE
**Nelson Poirier spotted
and photographed the first shaggy mane mushrooms that he has seen this
year. This is normally a late-season mushroom; it usually appears in groups,
often on rich cultivated areas such as lawns. Many consider it a choice edible,
but it must be gathered promptly after it emerges as it liquefies into a black
fluid as it matures.
Nelson also hiked a
trail through Mill Creek Nature Park in Riverview and noticed that hundreds of honey
mushrooms had emerged over the past day. They were seen only in the park's
hardwood areas. The honey mushroom grows at the base of hardwood trees, usually
with many individuals in a group. The partial veil has an Elizabethan-collar
look that helps identify it, and the spore print is a very pale yellow.
Some folks were out with
baskets gathering the honey mushrooms and filling them!
**Bob Blake in Second North River maintains daily weather statistics of morning low temperatures, daily high temperatures, and monthly precipitation.
Bob submits a table of
those statistics from that specific area comparing September 2025 and September
2026.
September 2026 showed
consistently lower morning temperatures, which meant cooler nights, and
rainfall was almost triple that of 2025.
These conditions created a
banner year for mushrooms to pop up.
|
2025 |
2026 |
||
|
morning temperatures |
daily highs and rainfall |
morning temperatures |
daily highs and rainfall |
|
+23-1 day +21-1 +17-2 +15-2 +14-1 +13-1 +12-2 +11-1 +10-4 +9-2 +8-2 +7-1 +6-2 +5-1 +4-2 +2-1 |
29-1 +28-1 +24-3 +22-2 +21-2 +20-4 64 mms. rain |
+17-1 +16-2 +15-2 +14-1 +13-1 +12-5 +11-3 +10-2 +9-3 +7-1 +6-1 +5-1 +4-1 +3-1 +2-1 0-1 |
+23-1 +22-2 +21-5 +20-5 179 mms.rain |
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
