I had finished the walk in Cradle Mountain Lake St Clair National Park with Roger. He was heading back to Sydney. I was in Tasmania for an extra week and this gave me a chance to spend some time visiting my sister and brother in law at West Ulverstone. While there, the weather was mixed, but we made the most of it – visiting some nearby sites to photograph fungi on some of the days.
The first day, I headed out with my sister, Alicson, to the Ferndene State Reserve at Penguin. This is at the base of the Dial Range and is excellent fungi habitat. Recent rain should mean we could expect good fungi. The fungi turned out to be very good indeed. We were lucky to time our visit between rain storms.
First some waxcaps. Hygrocybe firma –
Porpolomopsis lewelliniae
Hygrocybe apricosa
Trogia aff.straminea
Mycena mulawaestris
Mycena interrupta
Tricholomopsis rutilans
Clavulina cristata
Helotium tasmanicum species complex
Dacrymyces cupularis
These tiny white mushrooms were covered in droplets –
Dentipellis tasmanica
I am not sure what this one is –
Mycena cystidiosa
Boletellus sp.
Hypholoma sp.
Tremella fuciformis
Mycena aff. epipterygia
Mycena albidocapillaris
Ramaria sp.
Mycena albidocapillaris
Vibrissea dura
Psilocybe subaeruginosa
Mycena aff. mamaku
Chlorociboria aeruginascens
Clavulina subrugosa
As well as the fungi, we observed a number of these long thin nematode worms – Canary Worm, Fletchamia sugdeni –
When it started to rain heavily we headed out. It had been short but very good excursion.
Many thanks to Elaine McDonald and Herman Anderson, members of the Tasmanian Fungi Facebook Page for providing i.d’s and correcting my mistakes.