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Amanita farinacea
Photo E Collins
Identify by the powdery meal on cap and stem. There are little warts on the young specimens and as they age they fall away.
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Amanita sp
Photo E Collins
This large white fungi has an unpleasant odour. It is possibly A ochrophyloides.
August
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Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa
Photo E Collins
Sporangia on rotting damp wood.
Found under damp bark.A beautiful slime mould.
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Cheilymenia raripiila
Photo E Collins
Dung fungi. Magnified the little cups have a rim of fine hairs.
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Chlorociboria aeruginascens Blue Stain fungus
Photo E Collins
On sticks and logs in June. This fungus stains the wood it grows on a bright blue-green.
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Chlorociboria sp
Photo J Heywood
Similar to C aeruginascens but apparently does not stain the wood it grows on as much.
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Chrysothrix candelaris
Photo N Blair
Gold Dust Lichen. An iridescent lichen growing on Ironbark. July.
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Clitocybe clitocyboides
Photo E Collins
These love wet conditions. Distinctive funnel shape with "upswept" decurrent gills. Spore print white. usually found in little groups.June July
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Coltricia cinnamomea
Photo E Collins
Growing close to the surface their fruiting bodies are up 3mm across. Growing on wood just below the surface and about one cm tall these attractive little pored fungi are easily missed. These were growing on wet track. June July
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Coltricia cinnamomea Fairy Stools
Photo E Collins.
Grows on decaying wood and tree roots. The cap has radiating hairs which make it look like satin. Lovely when fresh.
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Coprinellus truncorum June
Photo E Collins
Growing in rotting woody debris.
Interestingly flecked caps.
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Coprinellus truncorum maturing May
Photo E Collins
Forms dense colonies at base of stumps and on rotting wood.
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Coprinus micaceus
Photo N Blair
Glistening In Cap. A delicate, short-lived fungi that autodigests to a sticky black mess. Spores are black.
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Coprinus micaceus. July jpg
Photo E Collins
Glistening Inky Cap. An exquisite and delicate fungi.
Short lived as it auto digests into a black gelatinous mass.
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Cortinarius abnormis
Photo E Collins
Cortinarius abnormis. May. On rotting wood and in adjacent soil. Spore print brown.
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Cortinarius abnormis and Fungus Fly
Photo E Collins
Several flies of about 1.2 cms in length were in attendance on this group of fungi. They were Fungus Flies, Tapiegaster sp. Males defend a site and await a female to mate with. There were three of these sitting quite still on the group of fungi.
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Cortinarius sinapicolor
Photo E Collins
Easily recognized by the glutinous stems and caps.Common. Photo June.
Commonly called Slimy Yellow Cortinar
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Crepidotus sp
Photo J Heywood
Grows on wood. This fungus has very short stems. See adjoining photo for the underside view.
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Crepidotus sp
Photo J Heywood
Here jan shows the attachments and the arrangement of the gills. A nice pair of photos..
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Cystoderma amianthinum
Photo N Blair
Grainy-stemmed cystoderma. September.
Among moss beds in shaded areas.
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Dictydiaethelium plumbeum maturing
Photo E Collins
The red slime mould took just three days to mature to this stage. Amazing transformation.
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Fistulinella mollis
Photo E Collins
One common name is Marshmalllow fungus. It is a member of the fleshy-pore group boletes. The pore tissue is very soft and bruises easily. August.
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Geastrum indicum
E Collins
Common name Saucered Earth-star.
On litter and first appears as a puffball.The outer layer splits to reveal the spore case. The spores are ejected by touch and by raindrops. August
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Geoglossum sp. or Glutinoglossum sp
Photo N Blair
It seems that this species has been separated from the Geoglossums and is now Glutinoglossum australasicum.
The hairs in the stem and the brown stem appear to be distinguishing features. August
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Gymnopilus junonius Gold Caps
Photo E Collins
May June.On dead wood.This common fungus is spectacular in large clumps.
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Hypholoma sp
Photo E Collins
A feature of these little fungi is the reddish stem with whitish flecks. On tree trunk. July
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Hypholoma sublateritium
Photo N Blair
Common name is Brick Caps. On dead or living trees in big clusters. The spore print is dark purple.
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Ileodictyon cibarium Lattice Fungus
Photo by Andrea Excell In July
This amazing fungus begins life as an "egg".At maturity the case splits and the spore bearing lattice pops out.It is uncommon.
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Laccaria laterita
Photo E Collins
A delicate fungus found in a wide variety of habitats. This one was in a garden. June July
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Lactarius deliciosus
Photo N Blair
Saffron Milk Cap. A large fungi with distinctive blotches on its stem and cap. Associated with Pine Forest. Edible. Photo June
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Leucocoprinus birnbaumii
Photo E Collins
Often found in pot plants emerging after rain and in humid weather. Dainty bell-shaped at emergence and later flat.
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Leucoprinus birnbaumii
Photo E Collins
This photo was taken twelve hours after the previous one and twelve hours later the fungi had shrivelled. They are delicate have a very short life indeed.
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Lycoperdon scabrum
Photo E Collins
A puffball. The scales fall off as it matures leaving a smooth skin. The spores are emitted through the apical hole which develops on maturity.
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Marasmiellus affixus
Photo S Jakovic
The common name Little Stinker seems harsh for this beautiful little fungi. However it does have an unpleasant odour. Found on the dead wood of eucalypts.
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Mycena yuulongicola
Photo E Collins
Nestled in a lichen clad old stump. The lichen is a Cladia sp. The ones in the foreground have become bell-shaped and are older.
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Native Bread Laccocephalum mylittae
Photo E Collins
This huge fungi appeared at the base of a burnt out stump after a fire.Used as food by Aborigines.
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Omphalina chromacea
Photo N Blair
Yellow Buttons. Grows on bare areas and bare trackside banks which also support algae and moss. August.
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Omphalotus nidiformis
Photo N Bartlett
Neville has captured the nightime beauty of this remarkable fungi.
At the end of its life it a glutinous mass.
May June
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Omphalotus nidiformis
Photo E Collins
Another wood rotting fungus. Coming in many shapes and found on stumps and logs, this fungi produces luminescence at night, glowing green. It is poisonous.
May June and perhaps at other times when conditions are favourable.
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Pholiota communis Common Pholiota
Photo E Collins
An attractive fungi when moist.
In pine forest in June
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Pholiota communis Common pholiota 2
Photo E Collins
In pine forest in June. The stems are finely hairy and scaly at the base.
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Podoschypha petalodes
Photo N Blair
A attractive leathery fungi which grows around the base of trees or on buried wood. Photo June
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Podoscypha petalodes
Photo J Heywood
Rosette Fungus, Aptly named as it forms little colonies of rosettes. Found on the ground and around tree bases.
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Pyronema amphalodes
Photo N Blair
As the name suggests this tiny mass of fungi occurs after fire. The fruiting bodies are tiny and mass together to form a colony.
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Russula foetens
Photo E Collins
A large fungi cap to 20 + cms .
A feature of this species is the unpleasant odour. I ages into a smelly mass. July
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Schizophyllum commune
Photo N Blair
Not until one looks below this cap is the intricacy of this fungus revealed.Common on dead wood.
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Schizophyllum commune
Photo N Blair,
Common name is Split Gill. It is usually found on clusters on dead wood.The gills are split hence the common name. As it ages it becomes grey and somewhat leathery.
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Trametes versicolor
Photo E Collins
This fungi comes in an array of colors. It is a wood decaying species. The underside is cream and has small pores. Common name is Rainbow Fungus August
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Trametes versicolor underside
Photo E Collins
The underside has layers of pores.
Common name is Rainbow Fungus
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Tremella fimbriata
Photo R Sharpe
Common name is Brown Witches Butter.
It is one of several Tremella species found in the park.
Photographed at Mt Pilot in July.
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unidentified
Photo N Blair
This looked like a fungi but we are told it is more likely to be an insect egg raft.
Anyone who can shed light on this please make contact. August
