I had a very pleasant day in the Lane Cove areas looking for and photographing fungi. I started the day at a site near Lane Cove and found a reasonable amount of fungi out, including quite a few waxcaps.
Hygrocybe apricosa
Here are more photos from the site –
More photos are online on my website here.
I later went to Ferndale Park at Chatswood, and there the fungi was a bit better I thought. One thing I was looking for was to see if any of the Ferndale Park – green/pink waxcaps were out. After a fair bit of searching, I only found one of them. A local resident, Peter Woodard, who originally told me about these had collected some specimens and sent them to the Herbarium at Orange and it seems they are a new species. Here is the one I spotted on the day –
Here are some of the other fungi from Ferndale Park –
More photos from Ferndale Park are online here.