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 tryptonite
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 Re: Melbourne  [Re: OOISI]
#2823056 - 06/24/04 04:33 AM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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found this big bastard on todays sub hunt. The cap was about 25-30cm. 
anyone know what it might be?
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 benzene
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Re: Melbourne *DELETED* [Re: tryptonite]
#2823264 - 06/24/04 07:28 AM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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Re: Melbourne [Re: benzene]
#2823269 - 06/24/04 07:31 AM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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lepista nuda?
I just liked the nice purple colour. Pity they were bug munched.
(Grew in long grass near eucalyptus and pine trees, either paired or alone. Cap is around 20cm in diameter.)
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Re: Melbourne [Re: benzene]
#2823275 - 06/24/04 07:33 AM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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tryptonite, any other details? might be cortinarius australiensis. As the ring seems to be stained rust brown
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suboriginal
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Some 'iridescent' orange shrooms from the other day, my cam doesnae' do them justice... for full details see 'ID request for non PA Melbourne shroom2' thread...
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Edited by suboriginal (06/24/04 11:14 AM)
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Re: Melbourne late June 04 [Re: suboriginal]
#2823291 - 06/24/04 07:46 AM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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I dunno sub. cool find - i couldn't find anything that matched the desription. have you checked http://fungimap.rbg.vic.gov.au/fsp/fsp.html ?
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omphalina sp? Melbourne, Aus [Re: benzene]
#2823293 - 06/24/04 07:47 AM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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Caps around 1cm in diamater max. No spore prints. Growing roadside 2m from a pond. (Ground was ~2m higher than water line.) Caps were as white, and the fungi grew in a small group, but none were touching. Caps looked a little wet and were concave. Cute little fungi!
omphalina sp???? Any thoughts?
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Re: omphalina sp? Melbourne, Aus [Re: benzene]
#2826447 - 06/25/04 02:14 AM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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youre right benzene mine are definately Cortinarius australiensis. The brown on the veil due to its reddish-brown spores.
for yours Im thinking Alboleptonia sericella...
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Edited by tryptonite (06/25/04 04:55 AM)
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Latest Melbourne Australia non-PA's [Re: tryptonite]
#2827091 - 06/25/04 08:37 AM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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A few more random pics from the recent hunt...
Found these guys in a 'stump' (where a sub-trunk was chopped some years ago) of a very much alive tree, growing about 3 metres from a largish creek in suburban Melbourne. I've also seen this species growing from hard-wood-chips, they seem to like moisture a lot... predictable re the wee uniform white dots on the caps of the juveniles, and their fragility... they never seem to last long!
Some 'imposters'... GREAT colouration on that eucalypt leaf though !!!
And some zany caps... shrooms eating themselves with their own mycelia... at least I assume that's what's happening... like the chemically based 'auto digestion' that some shrooms employ I spose, is this the 'mycelial-digestion' equivalent (i.e. facilitate spread/ propagation by sacrificing the fruiting body to mycelia in preference of prolonged spore dropping...) ?
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Edited by suboriginal (06/27/04 06:12 AM)
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Couple more Melbourne shrooms... and a polypore? [Re: suboriginal]
#2832518 - 06/27/04 06:05 AM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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A lot of shrooms about today, here's some snapped a few metres from the Yarra, about a metre above water level, on woodchips...
I suspect these guys are the same species as the shrooms in pic#1 in the post just before this one (those were found next to a largish creek), these are larger/ more mature though... they always look sad, this species. Dunno why.
I've found a large dried (yet waxy) dislodged one of these 'shrooms' before and couldn't quite tell what it was. Found this bunch growing today, now I know. These were very hard/ rubbery/ waxy even while growing, attached to woodchip by mycelial clump, no 'bulb' at root. Wierd little guys.
Then this freakster... at first I thought it was a degraded polystyrine ball or sommat... found dislodged just sitting (calmly) on top of woodchips. It was bone dry and very light when found, and appears to be a 'crystalised' version of what was once moist and possibly spongy, definately porous. Is it some kinda' polypore ? I'll make a few sections tomozza and post some snaps. I've seen similar things but smaller near another local waterway...
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 Re: omphalina? Melbourne, Aus [Re: tryptonite]
#2832727 - 06/27/04 09:26 AM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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Thanks tryp. I found these ones atop of a hill about a 1k away today. Same sort of shape - browner in colour with a distinct button in the middle of the cap(on top.) These grew in a mossy/grassy patch and had gotten some sun. I also think these look like an omphalina. Still nice little fungi. Pity you can't eat them. Any thoughts?
(Both are the same type of mushroom - the lighting varies. (Main picture, the paler one, is with flash vs sunlight for the insert.)
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