After finding some great fungi out at Ferndale Park and Mill Ck, I was keen to have a look in other places around Sydney. This day I went to Springwood and went down Sassafras Gully. I entered via the track at the end of Sassafras Gully Road walked down to the gully and along eventually to Glenbrook Creek, then exited via the Wiggins Track.
I found a fair bit of nice fungi out. It is the time of the year when a lot of the colourful waxcaps start to appear – and I did find quite a few. Here are some –
Hygrocybe anomala
Hygrocybe miniata
Hygrocybe cantherellus
Hygrocybe collucera (left) and Hygrocybe cantherellus
Gliophorus graminicolor
Hygrocybe pseudograminicolor
Humidicutis sp.
The above species seems to be very similar or the same as the Ferndale Park waxcap. The one that changes to pink as it ages. It is also similar to Humidicutis helicoides.
Hygrocybe apricosa
Hygrocybe aurantiopallens
Hygrocybe sp.
I found several clusters of this golden yellow species. It is not Gliophorus chromolimonea. It does appear to be similar to the New Zealand species Hygrocybe cerinolutea.
Hygrocybe sp.
This is another yellow- orange species that I am not familiar with. It perhaps could be Hygrocybe fuhreri.
Hygrocybe astatogala
Hygrocybe sp.
This one could be same as he ones above that I think could be Hygrocybe fuhreri.
Hygrophorus involutus
And now some of the other fungi –
Tremella mesenterica
Clavaria zollingeri
Perhaps Ramariopsis sp.
Mycena sp.
Ramariopsis pulcella
Hydnum repandum
Boletellus sp.
Tremellodendropsis pusio
Discinella terrestris
Trichoglossum hirsutum
Microglossum viride
Plectania campylospora
Drechmeria gunnii
Slime Mould – Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa
Greenhood Orchid – Pterostylis grandiflora
