I was heading up the Mountains to visit my sister at Hazelbrook (while my sister from Tasmania was visiting). On the way up, I broke any journey at Springwood and visited Sassafras Gully to see how the fungi was going. I entered the valley via the track at Sassafras Gully Road and exited via the Wiggins Track.
I found a reasonable amount of fungi, including some interesting and rare species. Here is some –
Phellodon niger
Cortinarius rotundisporus
Porpolomopsis lewelliniae
Hygrocybe sp.
Trichoglossum hirsutum
Hydnum repandum
Hydnoplicata convoluta
Aleuria aurantia group
Hygrocybe sp.
Hygrocybe sp.
Gliophorus graminicolor
Porpolomopsis c.f. calyptriformis
I was very pleased to see this very rare pink species again. Sassafras Gully is the only place I have seen it. It is quite large and is a splitting waxcap like Porpolomopsis lewelliniae. I had first observed it in July 2016. It most closely resembles Porpolomopsis calyptriformis. That species is rare and found in Europe. There is a version, probably a different species, observed in North America. The European species is highly conical in form which this is not.
Cuphophyllus aurantiopallens
Hygrocybe sp.
Gliophorus sp.
I have seen this glutinous waxcap before in Sassafras Gully. It does not seem to be described. Here is a second one –
Humidicutis sp.
Hygrocybe sp. and Hygrocybe rodwayii
Hygrocybe leucogloea
Gliophorus graminicolor
Hygrocybe lilaceolamellata
Hygrocybe reesiae
Clavaria zollingeri
Iw as pleased to spot a second Porpolomopsis c.f. calyptriformis –
This was about 150 m away from the first one.
Hygrocybe sp.
Hygrocybe anomala
Clavaria pusio
Gliophorus graminicolor
Hygrocybe sp. ?
Hygrophorus involutus
Hygrocybe batesii
Ramariopsis pulchella
Geoglossum sp.
Gloioxanthomyces chromolimoneus
Humidicutis sp.
This one seems to resemble the one found in Ferndale Park at Chatswood.
Hygrophorus involutus
Hygrocybe aurantipes
Clavaria pusio
Hygrocybe batesii ?
Ramariopsis kunzei
Hygrocybe leucogloea
Cuphophyllus austropratensis
Perhaps Hygrocybe apricosa –
