I spotted this fungus a few metres in from the edge of the forest. Before I charged in to take a close up, I noticed that it was sharing its spot with something else.
 |
| 3 January 2012 |
Not the lawyer vine, although they can be a real nuisance. This...another bloody stinging tree.
So, this is the best photo I've got. The fungus is large and is supported on a relatively slender stem that ends in what appears to be an attachment disc. If any of you fine fungi people have an idea of its identity, I'd love to know.
 |
| 3 January 2012 |
On firmer ground with this one. (I'm sure I could work that into a pun if I gave it some thought.) This is — as far as I can recall — the only species of non-earthstar or -stinkhorn fungus to which I have ever been able to put a name. So when Denis at the Nature of Robertson
posted on this species,
Cyptotrama aspratum, from his neck of the woods, I got quite excited.
Because I recognised a fungus.
 |
| 5 December 2011 |
 |
| 5 December 2011 |
 |
| 13 December 2011 |
 |
| 13 December 2011 |
 |
| Close up of above |
 |
| 13 December 2011 |
This map from the Australian Virtual Herbarium shows the current (registered) holdings of
C. aspratum in Australian herbaria. And makes me feel totally guilty that I didn't collect a specimen and send it to Melbourne for their collection.
 |
Specimen data reproduced from Australia's Virtual Herbarium
with
permission of the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria Inc. |
Still, one thing at a time, eh? I've only just got over the excitement of identifying a fungus.
