Sue joined me for an interesting and enjoyable trip down Birdwood Gully at Springwood. I had been looking at the local rainfall data and it indicted it could be good for fungi, despite some recent hot days.
The fungi was not super abundant, but there was a reasonable amount of a few species out.
We saw quite a few red waxcaps – Hygrocybe sp.
And I am not sure what these are –
More red Hygrocybe sp.
And there were a lot of the blue Entoloma aff. viriscens –
Hygrocybe astatogala
Entoloma aff. viriscens
Calycina citrina
Entoloma aff. viriscens
I am not sure what these are –
Mycena sp.
Andrew also found this blue-tipped coral. It was quite small – about 2 cm tall at most. And rust coloured spores are evident. Perhaps Phaeoclavulina zippelii –
Bolete
Amanita ochrophylla
Bolete
Pseudohydnum gelatinosum
And it was nice to see the pink coral fungi. Ramaria sp.
Phaeoclavulina ochracea
Cantherellus concinnus
This is the same Cordyceps cranstounii that I had photographed on an earlier visit.
And Sue spotted some more of the pink Ramaria sp. This was fresh and quite vivid.
Rimbachia cf. bryophila
Clavulinopsis sulcata
Boletellus emodensis
I spotted some Wasp Orchids – Chiloglottis seminuda –
We had heard and seen some Rufous Fantails. But it was hard to get photographs of them. They move about so fast.
Helotium terrestre
Hygrocybe sp.
And some more Rufous Fantails –
It had been a very pleasant visit. Many thanks to Sue for company.