On my previous trip, a few days before, I and found lot of interesting fungi at Sassafras Gully and after a fairly poor trip to Bola Creek, I thought it may be worth heading back up the mountains for a more careful look at Sassafras Gully. It was certainly worthwhile.
Hygrocybe graminicolor
This time I concentrated my efforts to finding fungi in a small area – along Sassafras Gully between the junction of the Victory Track and the track from Sassafras Gully Rd and the junction with Sassfras Gully Creek and Glenbrook Creek. I went in via the track from Sassafras Gully Rd and out via the Wiggins Track from Bee Farm Rd. So a short round trip – but I spent plenty of time looking for and photographing the fungi.
It was quite dry in the gully, not as good as my visit earlier, but more careful looking yielded some nice results.
Last time I found a strange club fungi. This trip I found a two more strange club fungi – both small, hairy, black clubs.
And I found a quite different set of hygrocybes. Some had dried out a bit so their colours may have changed.
Hygrocybe sp
Hygrocybe aurantipes
Hygrocybe anomola var anomola
Hygrocybe sp
Hygrocybe astatogala
Hygrocybe graminicolor
I found a few strange examples of coral fungi. Two specimens I found of what I think is Clavaria zollingeri were quite blue in colour instead of the more usual purple.
Clavaria zollingeri
Another coral fungi I found was a species that seems to be unidentified. It is white – cream coral with a fibrillose surface (most corals are smooth)
Another strange fungus that I found was a white stalk with a grey top covered in spores. I later identified it as Nomuraea atypicola. This species is a parasite growing from a spider.
Nomuraea atypicola
And I found another parasite – Cordyceps robertsii
Cordyceps robertsii
All in all a very interesting trip.
More photos are online on my website here.