Fungi at Chatswood – 15 June 2020

I spent an interesting day at the Chatswood area looking for and photographing fungi. I started at Ferndale Park, and then after lunch, I haded to Blue Gum Creek and checked that out. Both areas were quite good.

This waxcap – Humidicutis sp. is the same one I photographed on 10th June. You can see it starting to change to pink.

At Ferndale Park, I met Nicholas and Simon from Willoughby Council, and Meg with two student volunteers, Alisha and Emmy who were collecting waxcaps for the Herbarium. I was able to show then some of the interesting fungi that can be found in the park.

Here are some of the waxcaps –

Humidicutis sp. (The Ferndale Park Green- Pink waxcap)

The next photo is the same species – but shows how it changes –

Gliophorus graminicolor

Gliophorus viridis

Hygrocybe erythrocrenata

Hygrocybe miniata

Hygrocybe leucogloea

Gliophorus chromolimoneus

Hygrocybe griseoramosa

Hygrocybe anomola var. anomola

And there was some other nice fungi out. Here are some very fresh Cortinarius –

The last one appears to be Cortinarius phalarus. I am not sure what this next one is –

Microglossum viride

A selection of coral fungus –

And one of several jelly babies, Leotia lubrica –

I don’t visit Blue Gum Creek too often. I walked in to the valley via the scout hall – and follow rough tracks downstream. There are no establish tracks near the creek and thats where you need to be. I was pleasantly surprised with what fungi I found out.

First, I could not help noticing some very large patches of coral fungi –