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Victorian Floods and a few finds (with microscopy)
    #13795428 - 01/16/11 06:08 AM (13 years, 15 days ago)

Some of you may have heard about the floods in Australia, especially in Queensland where there are 19 dead and more missing. Victoria wasn't hit as badly but thousands of homes were inundated when rivers and creeks flooded after a week of heavy rains. Thankfully there were no deaths in Vic.

The waterways around my home were all in flood, leaving me stuck at home for a few days. Rather than going crazy with cabin fever I went mushroom hunting in the few paddocks that were still above water. But first here are some pics of the floods...


A big puddle out the front


Flood waters



The road out


Bubbles coming from under the road


The aftermath (I love the first photo)




There weren't many mushrooms around because its the middle of summer, but here are a few finds...
Mycenastrum corium found floating in the water


... an insect life raft


I recently bought a microscope so here are a couple of micrographs of the spores and spikey capillitial threads that are characteristic of Mycenastrum



Stropharia semiglobata



There were lots of Marasmius oreades popping up



A little Conocybe sp.



And finally this coprophilous Agrocybe sp.


It had really cool forked gills


Edited by TimmiT (01/17/11 07:42 AM)


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Re: Victorian Floods and a few finds [Re: TimmiT]
    #13795488 - 01/16/11 06:40 AM (13 years, 15 days ago)

That Mycenastrum corium looks like either a huge conker or some sort of weird brain. :smile:


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Re: Victorian Floods and a few finds [Re: elprawn]
    #13795951 - 01/16/11 09:48 AM (13 years, 15 days ago)

great pics Tim, thanks for sharing the experience we all are watching on the news. queensland looks really scary man, i am glad vic is all good.:thumbup:

do you think your dung loving Agrocybe could be a Stropharia luteonitens? the way that ones stem gets fatter at the apex reminds me of the pic in PMOTW.the gills dont look dark enough tho, its just a thought.

your little Conocybes are getting me stoked for my spring cyanopus flush coming soon!!:smile:


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Re: Victorian Floods and a few finds [Re: psylosymonreturns]
    #13795999 - 01/16/11 10:07 AM (13 years, 15 days ago)

It sucks to hear about all of that flooding. It looks like it really screwed up the roads.
At least you found some fungi!

Cool finds by the way. I like the "Agrocybe".  You should put those spores under the scope if you have time.


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Re: Victorian Floods and a few finds [Re: St. Chibes]
    #13796038 - 01/16/11 10:22 AM (13 years, 15 days ago)

Thanks for the report from down under... Been in Australia several times, really enjoyed the country and the people... The flooding has looked horrible, and I hope it's receding....

Nice photos... I know there are some mushrooms that seem to like flood plains...

Stay dry mate....


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Re: Victorian Floods and a few finds [Re: St. Chibes]
    #13796041 - 01/16/11 10:23 AM (13 years, 15 days ago)

:eek: Thats some serious flooding man! Im glad you didnt get washed away! Nice way to go mushroom hunting and take advantage of the floods too:yesnod:. That Conocybe sp is really pretty


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Re: Victorian Floods and a few finds [Re: Parkseerf]
    #13796435 - 01/16/11 11:57 AM (13 years, 15 days ago)

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:eek: Thats some serious flooding man! Im glad you didnt get washed away! Nice way to go mushroom hunting and take advantage of the floods too:yesnod:. That Conocybe sp is really pretty




Almost word for word what I was ganna say... glad you're safe and have some mushrooms to help your land-locked self stay entertained! Picturesque little Conocybe you found! :smile:


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Re: Victorian Floods and a few finds [Re: Oreganic]
    #13796607 - 01/16/11 12:43 PM (13 years, 14 days ago)

Awesome thread, TimmiT!:bow2:

I hope all of our Aussie Shroomerites fared ok...:stoned:


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Re: Victorian Floods and a few finds [Re: Bobzimmer]
    #13800946 - 01/17/11 07:09 AM (13 years, 14 days ago)

Thanks for all the comments everyone :smile:

I did end up putting the Agrocybe under the scope and think it's something close to A. pediades (but my knowledge of Agrocybe is very limited). The interesting part is that it seems to be obligately coprophilous as I have only ever found them growing directly from manure. I believe its the same species as these ones that I found a few months ago.

Here's some of the microscopy anyway...

Spores eliptical with apical germ pore (spore print was chocolate brown)


Pileipellis hymeniform


Basidia


Cheilocystidia


Pleurocystidia


A huge pleurocystidium?


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Edited by TimmiT (01/17/11 07:27 AM)


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Re: Victorian Floods and a few finds [Re: TimmiT]
    #13801116 - 01/17/11 08:58 AM (13 years, 14 days ago)

Cool stuff TimmiT!

Did you mount in water or use a chemical?


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Re: Victorian Floods and a few finds [Re: St. Chibes]
    #13801166 - 01/17/11 09:17 AM (13 years, 14 days ago)

Just water. I also had some methylene blue and eosin lying around, so stained a couple of slides with those to add some contrast.


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Re: Victorian Floods and a few finds [Re: TimmiT]
    #13801232 - 01/17/11 09:43 AM (13 years, 14 days ago)

The reason I asked is, I was under the impression that to view the basidia, cystidia, ect., You would have to use a stain of some sort.

Now I'm going to go check out some stuff under the scope.

Thank you!


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Re: Victorian Floods and a few finds [Re: St. Chibes]
    #13806130 - 01/18/11 03:01 AM (13 years, 13 days ago)

You only really need stains to see Hyaline(clear) features of certain mushrooms. It isn't a must but helps them to stand out and easier to see.


Nice shots TimmiT and great to hear you're not too affected by all this water laying about. Props on getting a scope too, one of the best buys I ever made.:thumbup:


Hope my neighbours in the North of the state are ok. :heart:


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Re: Victorian Floods and a few finds [Re: karode13]
    #13810666 - 01/18/11 08:43 PM (13 years, 12 days ago)

Nice microscopy :congrats:


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Re: Victorian Floods and a few finds [Re: The Thinker]
    #13812822 - 01/19/11 07:24 AM (13 years, 12 days ago)

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Nice microscopy :congrats:




hells ya:thumbup:


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Re: Victorian Floods and a few finds [Re: psylosymonreturns]
    #13818787 - 01/20/11 04:27 AM (13 years, 11 days ago)

Nice work TimmiT! :thumbup:

I was thinking of a certain festival up your way but it seems all systems are go!


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Re: Victorian Floods and a few finds [Re: Lord Mayonnaise]
    #13818896 - 01/20/11 06:09 AM (13 years, 11 days ago)

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psylosymonreturns said:
Quote:

The Thinker said:
Nice microscopy :congrats:




hells ya:thumbup:



Thanks :smile:

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Nice work TimmiT! :thumbup:

I was thinking of a certain festival up your way but it seems all systems are go!



That's good to hear, I have a few friends going. They would have been very soggy if it were last week. I've always wanted to go but it's so expensive and I'm not that big a fan of electronic music.

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A few more photos I forgot to include...


The roads are finally getting fixed in my area and most are now passable. The waters have continued down stream and towns in the north of the state are being flooded. It was/is the largest floods on record for Victoria (at least in the last 200 years). The weather has been bizare... with tropical heat and humidity... at the end of a decade long drought, though it's getting back to normal now (hot and dry). I believe 2 childern have now been confirmed dead after drowning in flood waters.

I was in one of the worst affected towns over the weekend to help with the relief effort. The entire town had been about 1m under water but there was relatively little structural damage (with a few exceptions). A large mud brick house had started to crumble and another had a horse float embedded into its wall. There were some spectacular sights but I thought it would have been inappropriate to bring a camera.


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