More Fungi at Chatswood – 7 July 2020

I plan to spend a full day in the Chatswood area, visiting two sites to look at fungi in the morning and then to walk along the Lane Cove River in the afternoon to see the Ospreys.  For the fungi, I visited Ferndale Park and then Blue Gum Creek Reserve.

Ferndale Park Fungi

I was mainly looking to see what waxcaps were out. I didn’t see too much difference from my previous visit 8 days earlier. If anything some of the fungi had gone and not that much new had emerged. Here are the waxcaps –

Gliophorus chromolimoneus

Hygrocybe sp.

Hygrocybe cantherellus

Gliophorus graminicolor

Many odd these were ones I had photographed 8 days earlier.

This one is fresh

Humidicutis sp. The Ferndale Park – Green-pink waxcap

I only found one of these, and I think it is one I photographed last visit. Not that different.

Hygrocybe anomola var. anomola

On my previous visit, I had seen some rainbow coloured corals. They did not seem too much different. I still think it is likely they are Clavulinopsis corallinorosacea that have been infected. The rainbow ones have the right base colour, its the pink bit that may have been infected.

Clavulinopsis corallinorosacea

And here is some fresh Ramaria lorithamnus

I then headed over to Blue Gum Creek Reserve and searched close to the creekbed below the scout hall. The fungi was not too bad, and I think it wold have been better a week earlier.

Blue Gum Creek Fungi

Here are the waxcaps

Hygrocybe anomola var. ianthinmarginata

Gliophorus graminicolor

There were lots of these, but most were a bit old.

Hygrocybe reesiae

Hygrocybe sp.

Hygrocybe aurantiopallens

Hygrocybe anomola var. anomola

And I found this cluster of what may be Humidicutis sp. The Ferndale Park – Green-pink waxcap. If so, ist the first time I have seen it outside of Ferndale Park. I will need to look for more in this valley and see how this one changes. It has the right colour and shape.

On my way down the track to the Lane Cove River, I came across a cluster of Hygrocybe austropratensis – 

And now for some of the corals. These look like Ramariopsis simplex –

Look at the base of this white club –

Here is the base magnified. There seems to be a very tiny species of club growing. More observations needed!

And the rainbow coloured one which I think is infected Clavulinopsis corallinorosacea

I think this is Clavulinopsis amoena –

And some small orange discs –

And on the track out, a nice Greenhood Orchid –

While walking down the valley to see the Ospreys, I met Sharon and Born, two other fungi photographers. They were just about to walk up to Ferndale Park.