I spent a full day, accompanied by Sue, visiting Sassafras Gully at Springwood. We first walked along the track going down Fairy Dell and Magdala Creek. Then up Glenbrook Creek to The Lagoon. And after lunch we walked up the Sassafras Gully track to Sassafras Gully Road.
We found a good range of fungi and orchids. In particular, the orchids were fantastic along the upper section of Magdala Creek.
Pixie Caps Orchid – Acianthus fornicatus
Nodding Greenhood Orchid – Pterostylis nutans
Cobra Greenhood Orchid – Pterostylis grandiflora
And some of the fungi –
Hygrocybe reesiae
Pseudohydnum gelatinosum
Porpolomopsis lewelliniae
Hydnum repandum
Hygrocybe batesii
Cortinarius austrovenetus
Ramaria sp.
At the junction of Magdala Creek and Glenbrook Creek, in an old fireplace was some Anthracobia muelleri –
Coral Fungi
Now at the junction of Glenbrook Creek and Sassafras Gully.
Hygrocybe batesii
Ramariopsis pulchella
Geoglossum sp.
Next, on the way up Sassafras Gully –
Gloioxanthomyces chromolimoneus
Hygrophorus involutus
Hygrocybe rodwayi and Hygrocybe sp. –
Perhaps Clavaria tenuipes –
Humidicutis sp.
I don’t know what this yellow-green waxcap is. It was rather large.
And then I was very pleased to see one of the rare pink splitting waxcaps. Porpolomopsis c.f. calyptriformis –
And then another strange waxcap. The large one was about 10 – 12 cm tall. Humidicutis sp. –
Now is this the same species as a teal coloured waxcap seen in Bola Creek a in 2020?
Cuphophyllus aurantiopallens
Hygrocybe anomala
Hygrocybe sp.
Hygrocybe rodwayi and Hygrocybe sp. –
Clavaria zollingeri
I then spotted a second of the pink splitting cap waxcaps. It was the one shown in the first photo. And a short time later, a third one –
I found two of these rare waxcaps on my previous visit on 9th June. None of those are the same specimens as the ones I found on this visit. But they were all found in the same general area.
Gliophorus graminicolor
Plectania campylospora
Hygrocybe batesii
This had been an excellent day for observing orchids and fungi. Thanks to Sue for great company during the day, and for helping with the spotting.