Birdwood Gully is at Springwood, on the other side of the railway line to Sassafras Gully. It also has an extensive track system making access very easy. But the rainforest is much more extensive in Sassafras Gully and that is perhaps why I have tended to neglect this more northern valley.
An unidentified Hygrocybe
I only spent a few hours of the morning in the gully. I entered via the track at Boland Avenue and walked down to the creek, and then along the creek and a short way up the track that goes up to Lucinda Avenue before returning the same way.
Pseudohydnum gelatinosum
It is late in the fungi season, and it had been fairly dry, so I didn’t expect to see too much. But the fungi still seems to be holding out in the nearby Sassafras Gully.
Hygrocybe sp
As it turned out – there was not too much out, but what was out was quite interesting. Most of the fungi I found was concentrated in two small pockets, not far from Boland Avenue. In one place I found a small cluster of Hygrocybes that I could not identify. They were interesting with a red stipe, pink, decurrent gills and a yellow -orange – brown cap. I think more trips – during the fungi season next year are warranted to look for these again.
Hygrocybe sp
Near the first two creek crossings – I found trees and logs with good toothed jelly fungi on them (Pseudohydnum gelatinosum).
Gliophorus graminicolor
Hygrocybe stevensoniae
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