After more recent rain, I decided to check the status of fungi along Wolli Creek. I checked out areas near Bray Avenue, and then walked all the way downstream to Jackson Place, then walked over the hill and down the steps to Illawarra Road, and caught two buses to get home.
Here are some of my photos I took along the way. First I looked off the track in a section upstream from Paperbark Creek. In past years I have seen good fungi here, but so far this year, there had been very little. Now things were at last starting to improve.
There was a lot of very small yellow coral fungi starting to appear. It seemed to have a stipe, so probably Ramariopsis simplex –
And some red waxcaps – Hygrocybe sp.
I was looking for Hygrocybe aurantipes, as I have seen it at this spot in the past. I did find two waxcaps, but am not sure what they are –
Hygrocybe sp.
Cuphophyllus austropratensis
Geoglossum sp.
Hygrocybe sp.
Now moving downstream, I found some Clavulinopsis amoena –
Clavulina cinerea
And I was pleased to see two stinkhorns – Aseroë rubra –
The second is just merging from its “egg” –
Imperfect fungi
Imperfect fungi is the asexual stage of certain fungi.
Cuphophyllus aurantiopallens
Now down near the rock climbing crag.
Clavulinopsis amoena
Clavulinopsis sulcata
Humidicutis viridimagentea
Gliophorus graminicolor
Gliophorus sp. (probably Gliophorus graminicolor) –
I think this is another Humidicutis viridimagentea just emerging from the ground –
Gliophorus graminicolor
Tremella sp. and lot of Springtails –
Further along the track –
Cuphophyllus aurantiopallens
Imperfect fungi
Now, past Turrella Reserve –
Aseroë rubra
And below the old quarry – Clavulinopsis sp. –
Cortinarius sp.
Pixie Cap Orchid – Acianthus fornicatus
Greenhood orchids – still developing.
And below the old quarry, I spotted a Satin Bowerbird bower –
