Mill Creek – Fungi and Orchids – 16 May 2015

This was another in a series of activities organised by the Sydney Fungal Studies Group Inc. This time the venue was Mill Creek on the Hawkesbury River. It is located a few kilometres downstream of Wisemans Ferry. At the creek is a camping and picnic area and a few tracks. We wandered up the track that follows the creek upstream through wet sclerophyll forest.

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At first it seemed that not too much fungi was out, but as we continued, and with a sizeable group of people looking we soon found plenty of fungi.

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These included quite a few members of the Cortnarius genus.

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We also found a few hygrocybes.

Hygrocybe aurantiopallens

Hygrocybe aurantiopallens

Hygrocybe batesii

Hygrocybe batesii

An added bonus was finding three species of orchid in flower.

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One very unusual fungi that was found was a type of Craterellus (trumpet fungi) that none of the participants had seen before, and could well be a new species.

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More photos together with my identifications are online here.

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I would like to thank the many members of the Sydney Fungal Studies Group for generously sharing their knowledge and in particular Ray and Gregg for lifts.

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2 Responses to Mill Creek – Fungi and Orchids – 16 May 2015

  1. Ken says:

    According to Tony Youngs more recent publications Hygrocybe batesii is actually Hygrocybe graminicolor, I assume it was just the brown version.

    • Dave Noble says:

      Yes, Ray mention that on the day. I used the original name and mention that is also called in graminicolor here on my web gallery

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