Sassafras Gully Fungi – 28 May 2020

This was another nice day spent in Sassafras Gully at Springwood looking for and photographing fungi. On this trip, I started out at the track from Sassafras Gully Road, then walking down to Glenbrook Ck, and out via Magdala Ck and Fairy Dell.

I found a reasonable amount of fungi out – but only at certain places. It was not evenly distributed along the track. In particular I was looking for waxcaps, and I found a nice range of them.

First the fungi I found in Sassafras Gully – mainly between the Wiggins Track junction and the Lagoon in Glenbrook Ck.

Waxcaps first –

Hygrocybe aurantiopallens

Gliophorus graminicolor

Hygrophorus involutus

Hygrocybe anomola

Hygrocybe mavis

I think these next ones are Hygrocybe pseudograminicolor –

I am uncertain for this one, so Hygrocybe sp.

Hygrocybe collucera

Hygrocybe sp.

Hygrocybe reesiae

Gliophorus viscidibrunnea

Humidicutis helicoides

And now for some of the other fungi along this section.

The purple coral at the junction with Glenbrook Ck is still present. I think it is Ramariopsis pulchella.

I did not find too much fungi along the track that goes down Glenbrook Ck, except this polypore –

Here is a close up of the pores –

I think this is the same species that Have seen growing before along this section. I have seen it just below the Lagoon, and then it was growing on soil. This specimen was growing on a large tree root.

Walking up Magdala Ck involves nine creek crossings. I think all the fungi I found was upstream of the seventh crossing. And I photographed mainly waxcaps. Here are some –

Hygrocybe sp.