Back to Bola Creek – 2 May 2020

This was my third repeat walk from Waterfall, down the Couranga Track to the Hacking River and around the Forest Track, with a stop at Bola Creek to look for and photograph fungi.

I was hopeful that some fungi would be out after a recent (24 mm) fall of rain. A lot of the fungi that I found was a bit old and dried out, butt here was enough fresh fungi to be found that I would have liked more time in the area.

Like my last trip, a lot of coral fungi was out. Here is a selection –

There were also some nice waxcaps out –

Gliophorus Graminicolor –

Hygrocybe miniata –

Porpolomopsis lewelliniae –

Hygrocybe auratiopallens –

And three unidentified species. This first one I have seen out every trip this season. It seems to start out red and then change to red-yellow then to orange as it develops. I think these are all the same species –

I found these along the Forest Track –

They look like a pale Gliophorus Graminicolor, but could be something different.

This one I spotted on the Couranga Track –

And some more on the Couranga Track. A bit old –

They could be Hygrocybe anomola var anomola.

Now for some of the other fungi –

I have no idea what these one are. Below is a Mucronella pendula. I see them growing on the end of the same log each season.

Below is one of many Cordyceps gunnii that I spotted.

I found several of these, which I think are Gloeocantharellus novae-zelandiae.

Some clubs – Trichoglossum hirsutum –

And the Toothed jelly – Pseudohydnum gelatinosum –

On the way down the Couranga Track, I had spotted a couple of small Entoloma viriscens. I didn’t photograph them, leaving them for the way back. This was a mistake – because they were hard to find again, even though i remembered the general area. But on the other hand, while searching for them I spotted two species of waxcaps nearby.