Found near City of Albany · September
What people actually find here
400 species have been recorded within about 40 km of here in September, from verified public observations. These are the ones we have written up, ordered by how often they turn up.
Acorns128 records within 40 km this month
Staghorn sumac50 records within 40 km this month
Black walnut23 records within 40 km this month
Dangerous look-alikeYarrow15 records within 40 km this month
Dangerous look-alikeGiant puffball14 records within 40 km this month
Shagbark hickory nuts12 records within 40 km this month
Dangerous look-alikeWild grapes12 records within 40 km this month
Also out there, that we haven't written up yet
Recorded near you this month. We have no identification guidance for these, so treat them as a list of things to go and learn — from a regional key or someone who knows them — not as a list of things to pick.
Fungi
turkey-tail
Trametes versicolor
32 records nearby
indigo milk cap
Lactarius indigo
20 records nearby
Your woods
What's growing around City of Albany
The commonest trees recorded nearby, most often seen first. Most of the good mushrooms are tied to a particular tree, so this is the first thing to know about a wood.
- oak
- maple
- pine
- beech
- poplar and aspen
- black locust
- chestnut
- hemlock
Know these first
What can hurt you around City of Albany in September
10 species on our hazard list have been recorded near here this month, 2 of which can kill a healthy adult. Learn these before you learn anything you intend to eat.
- Can kill41 records nearby
White baneberry
Actaea pachypoda
- Mistaken for
- Nothing edible, but the berries are conspicuous and children pick them.
- How to tell
- Porcelain-white berries each with a single black dot, on thick red stalks — the common name is doll's eyes.
- What it does
- Cardiac sedative: a few berries cause severe symptoms in a child.
- Can kill3 records nearby
Eastern destroying angel
Amanita bisporigera
- Mistaken for
- Button mushrooms, meadow mushrooms, and young puffballs picked before they open.
- How to tell
- Pure white gills that never turn pink or brown, and a sac-like cup at the very base of the stem — it sits below the soil, so you have to dig the whole mushroom up to see it. A puffball cut in half is solid white throughout; a young destroying angel shows the outline of a mushroom inside.
- What it does
- Amatoxins destroy the liver. You feel fine for six to twelve hours, then violently ill, then apparently better — that false recovery is the liver failing. One cap is a lethal dose for an adult.
- Hospital129 records nearby
Next
What to start watching for
Coming into season in the next month or two near City of Albany, New York. Seasons shift a week or two with the weather, so treat these as things to keep an eye on rather than dates.
