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A fungal foray at Glenveigh National park with the NIFG.

 

Many thanks to Gerry, Howard, Chris, et. al. for identifications and guidance.

 

Dry with occasional showers.
I have many day's worth of images, so here we go....

   

A first-time encounter for me. This impressive mushroom is 'Plums and Custard' - Tricholomopsis rutilans. The large specimen is about 16 cm. across.

These are the expanding caps (roughly 2 cm.) of Galerina marginata. I happily handled these before learning that they carry the same toxin as Amanita phalloides. Fatally poisonous.
This bracket is the Birch Polypore - Piptoporus betulinus - a very smooth fungus found exclusively on Birch. Specimen shown about 10 cm. across. You can see from the second picture how the fungus just grows over the existing twigs of the tree.

    

 

Here's a fine batch of Sulphur Tuft - Hypholoma fasciculare - growing on a stump. Individual specimens about 2 cm across.

This is a ring of Lepista flaccida - the Tawny Funnel Cap. Ring about 1m. across, individual fungi up to 10 cm. across.

    

Yesterday, I showed today's Amanita muscaria. Sometimes they can be a paler orange, and the 'spots' - remnants of the first part of the cap - can be washed off by rain or by mechanical means such as a blade of grass blowing over it.

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