This was a repeat of the walk I had made from Waterfall about ten days earlier, down the Couranga Track to the Hacking River, then around the Forest Path to Bola Creek, a quick look for fungi, then the walk out.
Hygrocybe roseoflavida
Other areas, I had been to in recent days had a reasonable amount of fungi out, and it looked like more rain had fallen recently at Bola Creek that the other places. The walk down was very pleasant. A hot day was forecast – but it turned out to be relatively cool and overcast. I saw no other walkers on the track down to the river, and then a few others on the Forest Path. At Bola Creek – There was a couple out taking photos of the fungi.
Here is some of the fungi. First some corals –
I am not sure what this last one is. I though it may be an old and faded Clavaria zollimgeri, as there was some nearby, and the colour was hard to judge in the low light under the rainforests canopy. Looking at the photo shows it is clearly brown, with no trace of purple, and also no sign of any branching.
There was not a lot of waxcaps out, but I did manage to spot some nice ones. Here are some photos –
This is the rare Hygrocybe roseoflavida. There were also the first of the purple Porpolomopsis lewelliniae that I had seen for the season out –
An the first Gliophorus graminicolor I had seen this season –
On my two previous trips this season to Bola Creek, I had come across some strange red-orange-yellow waxcaps. They were more still out in the same place –
I think these are all the same species, and I don’t know what they are. They seem to change colour and their stipes even have a beautiful green hue at the base.
Some of the other fungi –
On my previous trip, I had seen some trumpet fungi at three separate locations. One of these spots still had some out –
I also found some at a new location –
And I also found this interesting spine fungus –
I think it is Sarcodon fuligineoviolaceus. The first time I have seen this species.
On my walk out, I stopped to photograph some of the fungi on the Couranga Track –
This common spine fungus, Hydnum auratile –
And some nice Ramaria anziana –
The walk had been good both for the exercise and for the interesting fungi that I observed.
