Sydney Shroom ID Please

[Guest Øskorei]

Went for a stroll last weekend and came across jungles of fungi. After studying photos of the common active Sydney species, I can pretty much say that the following are not for good times. It was still a lot of fun spending a few hours crawling around with the camera though With the exception of the first lot of three, which look to be Stropharia aurantiaca (except pic 2 foreground), are any of the others, particularly the pale ones, actually edible for purely culinary purposes ? ID's would be appreciated.

And I s'pose the big question is, does this appear to be an area where one might be able to photograph subs as the season unfolds ? An earlier posts suggests that the proliferation of Stroph. might be a sign of a well suited environment.

PICS 1, 2 & 3

PICS 4, 5 & 6

PIC 7 & 8 - DIFFERENT LOCATION TO ABOVE (THIS LAST ONE WAS SIZE OF A SMALL DOG !)

[kindness]

Looks to me like an environment that would froth on supporting a sub network. have seen all the above in spots I've found the little orangeybrown guys. Looking in other environments such as the one supporting the mushrooms in the example you gave would likely result in some really nice pictures.

love and light and peace and spiritual shit.

[Undergrounder]

Yeah perfect environment... nice pics too

The orange/red/brown ones with little white bits around the cap margins are good ol' Stropharia aurantiaca and the paler yellower ones are Hypholoma fasciculare... both of those probably by far the most common shrooms you find on chips. I know a patch in the mountains that had thousands of those Hyphalomas a few weeks ago and in amongst them were a few hundred subs... that i didn't pick so may still be there.

The middle top one, the reddish one that's more a wine colour with reddish stems i think is a kind of Psathyrella. If you printe it it should be black. The closest i could find when i found mine for the first time was Psathyrella bipellis

Bottom one left i don't know but i've found it before, does it have white gills and a long thin straight stem? Yeahs don't know, i thought at one stage Xerula australis but i really have no idea.

Bottom right one, wow... never seen one of those before, but must be some kind of puffball (scleroderma). By the way did you have a good look at it? i presume the bottom bit used to be the top bit's covering, and as it expanded it flipped over and pushed the main bit up like earthstars do.

Edited May 1, 2008 by Undergrounder