It had been a while since I had been to Bola Creek to check out the fungi. Digi Dave had suggested a day out photographing, and Bola Creek fitted the bill.
Bactridium sp.
I was not sure what conditions would be like. The previous visit had been quite good – there had been recent good falls of rain and the ground was quite moist. Good conditions for fungi? Well, reasonable but not brilliant conditions on that visit. We did find some nice fresh fungi – but it was out in some of the drier areas. This new visit turned out to be much poorer. The ground was very dry indeed and we found very little out. But we did spot quite a few red waxcaps – although most of them were a bit dried out.
Here is a closer view of the lower red waxcap showing the coral fungus –
I also spent a bit of time taking photos of the Bactridium sp. with an ultra macro lens, and I later focus stacked them. This is a very strange species. I have seen Bactridium before at Bola Creek and at Coachwood Glen, but the latter seems to have a longer stipe (See for example here).
There were also a reasonable number of the creamy-white waxcap – Hygrophorus involutus out –
The one in the second photo has a few of their characteristic droplets on the stipe. This species seems to appear just before the end of the fungi season.
More photos together with identifications are online here on my website.
