Recent trips to Springwood to look for and photograph fungi have all been to Birdwood Gully this season. So I thought it about time I visited Sassafras Gully on the other side of Springwood.
I entered the valley by the track from the end of Sassafras Gully Road, and walked as far as the Lagoon at the Glenbrook Creek junction, and then returned the same way.
I found a fair bit of nice fungi, but the abundance was not as great as I had been hoping for. Perhaps due to a lot of the habitat being waterlogged. Here isomer that I found –
Porpolomopsis lewelliniae
Entoloma virescens group
Hydnoplicata convoluta
Aleuria aurantia
These were growing in the same location I had seen them last season, and the season before that – the disturbed ground where there had been a slip.
Hygrophorus involutus
Clavaria zollingeri
Hygrocybe reesiae
Clavulinopsis amoena
Hygrocybe astatogala
Cuphophyllus aurantiopallens
Hygrophorus involutus
Perhaps Clavaria pusio
Cuphophyllus aurantiopallens
Probably Entoloma sp. and Rickenella fibula –
Ramariopsis pulchella
Hygrophorus involutus
Cuphophyllus austropratensis
Ramaria sp.
Hypholoma sp.
Probably Hymenopellis gigaspora
Trichoglossum hirsutum
Cordyceps tenuipes
Leotica lubrica
And walking back up the hill, I spotted this nice Red Triangle Slug –
Hi David!
You photos are absolutely beautiful!
My partner and I did the Sassafras Gully walk last Sunday, and when we were browsing through your photos, we were delighted to notice that we happened to photograph (on our phones, with slightly less stunning results) the exact same porpolomopsis lewelliniae as you had.
A nice little moment of connection, across time, through fungi.
All the best!