Mt Wellington Fungi 3

This one is growing on the Octopus Tree.

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Mt Wellington Fungi 2

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Mt Wellington Fungi 1

Fungi from the Pipeline Track, Mt Wellington.

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Fungi from the Pipeline Track, growing around the bases of trees along the edge of the track.

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This group of four photos are all of the same fungus. These appear to have a rust-red spore, which in a couple of cases had been deposited on caps sitting underneath other caps.

The small rounded cap is a juvenile one of the same type, which was evidenced when turning them over and looking at the stem and gills.

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This is a very tiny creamy-white fungus.

Fungi Walk, Mt Wellington - 24th May 2008

Had a wander around the lower Mt Wellington slopes on Saturday. Cool and damp day, but fine for photographing fungi. The light seemed very blue early on in the day. Later, the water of the estuary and bays around South Arm was glassy and a gentle haze softened the lines of the land. It was quite pretty, in a very Tasmanian way, and had a sort of silky, silvery quality about it.

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This is a tiny rock pool on Sphinx Rock, which is composed of Triassic sandstone. This sandstone underlies the dolerite that forms the visible bulk of the mountain including the Organ Pipes. Sphinx Rock, along the Lenah Valley Track, provides a good view, but has a large cliff requiring care and the control of children. Various other sandstone outcrops along this lower level of the mountin are interesting, including Rocky Whelans Cave and Crocodile Rock.

Adobe Lightroom Adventure to Tasmania

This site is worth a look. Lots of nice photos, especially of the Tasmanian bush.

Waratah - Telopea truncata

Pipeline Track Fungi - 3rd May 2008

This is the best time of year for fungi, but the dry weather appears to have minimised their appearance so far. However, there were a few interesting ones along the Pipeline Track yesterday.

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Unidentified so far. Some resemblance to Cuphocybe species.

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Unidentified so far.

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Bracket fungus.

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This is Amanita muscaria, the Fly Agaric. It's an introduced species from the northern hemisphere, and is poisonous. It is now classified in the same genus as the Death Cap A. phalloides. You wouldn't be tempted to eat something that looked like this though would you? It might has well have "poison" written on it. These are quite prolific at a particular point along the track, and there are a lot of them growing underneath the leaf litter.

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Quite near to the obvious, full-grown A. muscaria, there were some other fungi growing. Looking closely at these however, it appears they are earlier stages in the appearance of A. muscaria. You can just see a pinky-coloured material where the warty surface has started to split apart.

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Again in this more fully-rounded fungus, there's the hint of pink showing through beneath the warty white surface. I'm assuming the underlying structure just keeps growing and then the white warts split apart and end up scattered across the red surface.