Sassafras Gully Fungi – 3 March 2024

I did a trip by myself to Sassafras Gully at Springwood to see how the fungi was going. This time I started by going along the track behind the shops, down Magdala Creek. I continued to Glenbrook Creek and walked upstream to the Lagoon, where I stopped for lunch and a swim. Then I exited via the track that goes to Sassafras Gully Road.

The fungi was not super abundant, but it was quite reasonable for so early in the fungi season.

Here are some that I found along Magdala Creek –

Amanita ochrophylla

Wasp Orchid – Chiloglottis seminuda

Hypholoma sp.

Eastern Yellow Robin

Sterium sp.

Clavulinopsis sulcata

Mycena austrororida

Phaeohelotium baileyanum

Porpolomopsis lewelliniae

Clavulina sp.

Austroboletus lacunosis

Rimbachia cf. bryophila

Wasp Orchid – Chiloglottis seminuda

Amanita farinacea

Amanita sp.

Boletellus ananiceps

Wasp Orchid – Chiloglottis seminuda

I kept on finding these orchids all the way along the creek.

Boletellus emodensis

Ramaria sp.

Sanguinoderma rude

Boletellus deceptivus

I am not sure what this is –

Chrysomphalina aurantiaca

Entoloma aff. virescens

Bolete

Clavulina cristata

Delicatula integrella

Tylopilus aff. balloui

Cantherellus concinnus

These next ones were found along Glenbrook Creek.

These small discs/cups were growing in an old fireplace. Anthracobia muelleri

Cantherellus concinnus

Jelly Fungus

Russula sp.

At the junction of Glenbrook Creek and Sassafras Gully, there are masses of this tiny rock orchid. Bulbophyllum exiguum

The last lot are taken along Sassafras Gully Creek –

Hygrocybe sp.

Entoloma aff. virescens

Hygrocybe sp.

Ramaria sp.

Cystolepiota sp.

Clavaria fragilis

Fungus? This was growing on a dirt bank –

Entoloma aff. virescens

Hygrocybe sp.

Entoloma sp.

Hygrocybe sp.

Tylopilus aff. balloui

Austroboletus niveus

It had been quite a hot day, but it had been quite pleasant in the shade of the rainforest in the gullies. I certainly felt the heat climbing up to the road and walking back to the station.

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