Apparently 3 differently structured zones on the light pore surface (darker when dried - last photo): surface flat nearest stipe; central band reticulate; to margin, longitudinally striate (‘gilled’) with finer reticulate structures between
Strong scent somewhere between the odor of a truffle and a Suillus pungens. Difficult to dry as it seems to have a very high oil content. Found growing near a rotten log and a series of tree roots. The only tree around was Nothofagus pumilo (Lenga tree).
Spores - elongated 10-12um in length with 1-3 oil droplets inside
One observation of this species on Mushroom observer http://mushroomobserver.org/observer/show_observation/231190
Height: 15cm
Diameter: 15cm
Substrate Soil
Habitat: Wet forest
Other spp: Eucalyptus spp., Bedfordia arborescens, Cyathea australis, Olearia argophylla, grasses
Singular specimen. Growing in soil near ephemeral creek (dry at present). White pores and spore print. Paperbarks, bloodwoods, kapoks and local Townsville wattle nearby. Taste pleasant (not bitter). Scratching pores caused a colour change (no bluing) to pale brown. see last photo. White spore print.
A single mushroom very noticeable because of it's appearance. Growing in regenerating scrub in a eucalyptus plantation.
Location: At the base of Russula track, popping out from soil.
Spores: First 3 images (left to right) are in water. The remaining spore images are in aqueous iodine (10% )
Earthball
Group of mushrooms with dark-speckled caps, white gills/stems and rings. [Collected by FEG.]
Solitary Strobilomyces sp.? growing from sandy soil and leaf litter in tropical gallery forest. Nearby trees Red Beech and melaleuca. Fungi stipe when scratched stained yellowish, as in last image.
Specimen found in soil near base of scheelea cephalotes [Cuban Palm]. It felt rubbery.
Uncommon.
Sparsely weedy, Hyptis suaveolens, Stachytarpheta spp..
Mango orchard, mostly closed canopy.
Soil sandy/lateritic gravel.
Flat, slope about 5 degrees, west.
Found growing in leaf liter
Close to eucalyptus
Soil is mostly bauxite
Fruit had a mushroom shape, with quite a strong, woody stem and attachment.
Upperside was white, with centre area brown. As the fruit aged, the entire upper side of the cap turned a dark chestnut brown.
Underside was very interesting, composed of densely packed teeth, which tapered to a fine point. These Teeth were quite robust with little flexibility, though softened in older specimens. Teeth travelled down the stem quite a distance, particularly on the under portion of the stem.
Largest caps were 3-5cm across. 4-6cm long, but would be longer as the stem curves upward (almost into a U shape on some).
Also had almost root like lengths of mycelium joining several pairs of mushrooms together. when a fruit was removed, these very tough lengths of mycelium remained attached pulling away from the branch intact.
Collected: Sample OAM24.
Photo Credit: Ori Albert-Mitchell, and Liam Roberts.
Pileus 2.5-5.5 cm broad, convex to plano-convex, dry, subvelutinous and subrugulose on occasion, becoming finely areolate at margin. Flesh yellow, quickly cyanescent, with mild odor and taste. Tubes adnexed, bright yellow, cyanescent, with pores bright yellow, quickly cyanescent, slightly irregular in outline. Stipe 5-8.5 cm long, 5-13 mm broad, subclavate to clavate, dry, barely subpruinose above, fibrillose striate below, yellow at apex, gradually red below to red brown near base, with obvious mustard yellow mustard brown tomentum at base, with interior yellow above, red to red brown below, cyanescent.
Tall. More than 25cms from bottom to the top of the cap. Just the 2 seen in grassed area near river bank.
Field Notes - looks like icing sugar on these lovely chocolate mushrooms.
growing close together in groups cover an area no more than 2x2m
Growing on eucalyptus tetradonta I think. Never seen a fungus like it.
This much rarer species has also been described to me as Cantharellus concinnus but its form is so different that I struggle to think of it as being the same. Like the previous posting, the location is a general guide only. Two images.
Her is the description of C. camphoratus ;
Cantharellus camphoratus R.H. Petersen, Figs. 2G–2I
MACROMORPHOLOGY: Pileus:20–75mmdiameter,edgesevenly round and inrolled, opening up to become plane, then funnel shaped, with an irregularly wavy margin; opaque, not hygrophanous; variously covered with thin layer of flat scales, which often disappear; deep yellow, scales brownish. Hymenium: folds flat to moderately deep with blunt edges, close, some- what sinuous, strongly decurrent, forked and becoming cross-veined; light yellow, cream to whitish. Stipe: 5 –25 mm × 30 – 65 mm, enlarging upwards from narrow base, solid; deep yellow to greyish orange. Context: white or whitish yellow, immediately violaceous with FeCl3, then slowly turning greyish; odour fruity, resembling apricots. All tissues stain reddish-brown with injury or prolonged exposure. Fruiting bodies are relatively im- mune to invertebrate parasites, and remain over a month in the field in good condition. If the hymenium is ex- posed (no or low moss or a low layer of duff), fruiting bodies may fuse to make a polycephalic or single massive fruiting body, cap development may be arrested beyond the stipe to produce peg-like fruiting bodies, and the hymenial folds become underdeveloped as flat, short, undulating ridges with multiple anastomoses, even absent. Habitus then varies from solitary pegs, to connate, cespitose or fused fruiting bodies.
'C' shaped spores are arrowed in 3rd image.
Capitate paraphyces
Cap dark orange-brown with scales. Pores and stipe vibrant yellow. Stipe club shaped.
Near instantaneous blue staining when cut. Blue staining more prominent near on the cap and base of stipe. Deep red colouring at base of stipe.
Growing in a clearing near one small eucalyptus
Gomphus sp. Growing in soil at the base of a large Angophora costata.