After recent rain another trip to the Lane Cove area was warranted to look for more fungi. I particularly wanted to see more species of the family Hygrophoraceae. This family of fungi are the so called “waxy caps” and includes the genera – Hygrocybe, Hygrophorus, Humidicutis and Porpolomopsis (amongst others). Many of these fungi are very brightly coloured – red, orange, yellow with some green or other shades. Some go through a series of colour changes as they age. Their gills tend to be thick and distant.
Hygrocybe arcohastata
I was very fortunate on this trip. Note only was a lot of colourful fungi out, but I met Ray and Elma Kearney also on a fungi documentation trip, and they took the trouble to show me some of that wonderful fungi that I am sure I would have missed if I had just been by myself.
Hygrocybe stevensoniae
Here are some of the Hygrophoraceae that I photographed –
Hygrocybe virginea
Hygrocybe lanecovensis
Hygrocybe graminicolor
Hygrocybe reesiae
Hygrocybe anomola var anomola
Hygrocybe collucera
Hygrocybe aurantipes
Hygrocybe austropratensis
Hygrocybe anomola var ianthinmarginata
Hygrocybe arcohastata
Hygrocybe stevensoniae
Hygrocybe aurantipes
Porpolomopsis lewellinae
Humidicutis helicoides
Hygrocybe viscidibrunnea
Hygrocybe erythrocala
Hygrocybe erythrocala
Here is some of the other fungi –
More examples of photos with identifications are on my website here.