Melbourne Bushwalk

[muffinz]

Hey guys.

I went for a nice walk around a local national park yesterday and spotted lots of interesting fungi. Would be nice to have an ID on them but I'm mostly posting to share the photos. Hope you enjoy.

#1.

#2.

#3.

#4.

#5. #6.

#7. #8.

#9. #10.

#11. #12.

I was surprised to find so many different types of fungi around. In one area I was seeing a different mushroom every two or three meters, was kind of exiting seeing so much variety. I saw heaps mushrooms more than I took photos of, plenty of lbm's and lwm's all over the place. There were heaps of #3 around, always catching my eye because of their similar appearance to subs. I think maybe its not quite cold enough for them yet, at least where I was. I know its hard to ID from photos alone and some of these aren't very detailed but I'm interested to hear peoples opinions.

Can someone recommend a good book or website for identifying the local edibles?

[MORG]

Awesome! Love those little blue #9 guys!

#4 looks like a Yellow Stainer perhaps. Agaricus xanthodermus They are edible but I can't ID for sure from photo.

#5 is an Armillaria species.

#6 is some kind of Scleroderma?

#12 is Amanita ananiceps

Bruce Fuhrer's latest is the best fungi guide for SE Australia I think. But the more books you have, the better! They're woefully inadequate given the state of knowledge on our native mycoflora.

The #3's do look alot like subs from the top. But the white gills and translucent stems say no. Also, the way those stems fracture in that brittle way is not like subs which tend to remain somewhat attached after breakage.

Was it Sherbrooke Forest?

Edited April 16, 2010 by MORG

[ferret]

nice pics!

id take a stab at

1-Paxillus or other forked gill/gilled bolete group

3-Collybia dryophila

5-could also be Gymnopilus or Pholiota

6-Earth-star, Geastrum spp

8-Amanita sp.

9- wow- are they stalked gilled fungi or some type of jelly? hard to tell from the pic but theyre cool.

10-Cortinarius australiensis

11-Marasmius

12-Amanita farinacea

all guesses really..

[Lord Mayonnaise]

Super nice finds and sweet shots!

# 5 looks like Gymnopilus junonius

# 9 is Chlorociboria aeruginascens

Edited April 19, 2010 by Lord Mayonnaise

[Zen Peddler]

Man i cant wait to move to the hills...

[muffinz]

Thanks for the book recomendation. I'll see if I can find it a bookstore and have a flick though it. Wasnt sherbrooke, good guess though, I was in the dandies, so beautiful all though there. I was spending most of my time staring at the ground but everywhere you look its just stunning.

Thanks for all the ID attempts. I have no idea how you can even remember that many names let alone put them to faces.

[mutant]

Nice finds. That blue ones are fantastic!!

yeah I think 5= Gymnopilus, Pholiota 12=amanita sp 8 = propably amanita sp