Otways

I've been wanting to go to the Otways to hunt fungi for quite a while now, but it's a long way. Cindy and Michael decided to accompany me this morning, after a breakfast at Dench. Jo-Lyn piked (on the hunting, not the breakfast).

It was pretty wet, but the day was as perfect as you can expect for a surf coast June. We took a couple of walks near Erskine falls, which was (unsurprisingly) wet and humid.

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I reckon this is a Hapalopilus nidulans, but these bracket fungi all look pretty similar.

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Clitocybe clitocyboides

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Tremella fimbriata. This is the only jelly fungus I can ID with any certainty.

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Mycena subgalericulata. These were absolutely everywhere. In fact, there were mycena everywhere, although this was the only photo that turned out well. I think there were even some Mycena interrupta, on the treestump in the middle of the carpack, but their blue colour had been washed out with age and the sun.

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Maybe Pholiota malicola?

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I have no idea about this one. Young fruiting bodies can be ambiguous.

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An earthstar. I think it's Geastrum triplex, but people often disagree because the centre sphere's colour is quite dark.

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I think these are brick caps: Hypholoma sublateritium. But that doesn't account for what look like remnants of a veil.

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These are Clavaria miniata, the flame fungus.

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Cortinarius lavendulensis. Beautifully viscous caps.

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Melbourne's favourite magic mushroom, Psilocybe subaeruginosa. Unusually unmolested, sitting right next to the carpark.

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Coprinus comatus, the shaggy lawyer's mane.

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These two are both Boletes, fleshy-pores. But which species, I don't really know. Perhaps Boletus barragensis