This was another in a series of activities organised by the Sydney Fungal Studies Group Inc. This time the venue was Mill Creek on the Hawkesbury River. It is located a few kilometres downstream of Wisemans Ferry. At the creek is a camping and picnic area and a few tracks. We wandered up the track that follows the creek upstream through wet sclerophyll forest.
At first it seemed that not too much fungi was out, but as we continued, and with a sizeable group of people looking we soon found plenty of fungi.
These included quite a few members of the Cortnarius genus.
We also found a few hygrocybes.
Hygrocybe aurantiopallens
Hygrocybe batesii
An added bonus was finding three species of orchid in flower.
One very unusual fungi that was found was a type of Craterellus (trumpet fungi) that none of the participants had seen before, and could well be a new species.
More photos together with my identifications are online here.
I would like to thank the many members of the Sydney Fungal Studies Group for generously sharing their knowledge and in particular Ray and Gregg for lifts.
According to Tony Youngs more recent publications Hygrocybe batesii is actually Hygrocybe graminicolor, I assume it was just the brown version.
Yes, Ray mention that on the day. I used the original name and mention that is also called in graminicolor here on my web gallery