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Hey Chep, Yeah those last three pics look like gym.purps - great find! I've found similar around bibra/north lake, and the perth urban fungi list the ones that look like that as gym.purp.cf (confirm?) If you spore print it it should be a orange. I've read rusty orange, but in my mind rusty is darker... mine look a regular orange, if anything with a yellow tinge. I'm going for a bush walk tomorrow ;-) Spore print wise - yes you want to spore print each one you find. You can trade em for other prints with relative ease, and these ones are pretty rare on the global scale.

Nice! When I look in the same kind of area there are lots of yellow ones like in the top of your location pic. I'd call these yellow ones Gymnopilus allantopus, or as the perth urban fungi reports call them: Golden Wood Fungus. The purple ones look like Gymnopilus purpuratus.

I've been looking around the same sort of area, swamp/bushland, just south of Perth. I found some a couple of weeks ago that I posted on shroomery here. And I found some more this weekend: . They didn't go blue at all. One of em, the one I found solo on a log, went very dark when, and left a blue/watery stain when I took the spore print. The biggest one was 7cm across. They all had a yellow stem, yellow gills, and a rusty orange spore print. The caps were either yellowish (found on top of the log) or deep purple (found on the underside) sheltered from the sun part of the log. Any ideas on what there are? They had some subtle colour differences to the ones in the shroomery post.