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Fungus Gnats (Family Mycetophilidae)Observer
rattyexploresDescription
This is so strange... I've never seen anything like it.
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Stemonitis fuscaObserver
sarahlloydDescription
Photos taken several hours apart.
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Flowers of Tan (Fuligo septica)Observer
lexi_ecologyDescription
No idea… a fungus of some sort? Perhaps some kind of Dog vomit slime mould?
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Puffballs (Family Lycoperdaceae)Observer
magneticislandDescription
Probably a puffball. Growing in a semi-suburban garden.
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Shelf Fungi (Order Polyporales)Observer
goosemonkDescription
I found them growing in a six inch pot half filled with chipped bark and smaller pots on top of the chipbark, Think they are some kind of jelly fungi. The spikes are very small maybe a millimeter or so. Quite beautiful.
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Artist's Brackets, Reishi, and Allies (Genus Ganoderma)Observer
sandra-tuszynska
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Ants, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies (Order Hymenoptera)Observer
mickbettaninDescription
Okay, I’m going for an insect cocoon? Small holes observed in some of the growths. Tree was in good health, scraggly due to location. Length 40-60m.
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Dead Man's Fingers (Xylaria polymorpha)Observer
ryanandersnDescription
Maybe some variation?
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Fungi Including Lichens (Kingdom Fungi)Observer
ottohDescription
A mix of a few different ones?
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Sticta stipitataObserver
johnwalterDescription
First record of this species in the Wombat SF as far as I can tell. Found in conjunction with P. glabra, P. billardieri and the moss Cyathophorum bulbosum. First records for all these species in this part of Victoria
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royhPlace
Australia. Queensland. Mareeba Shire. Mareeba. Davies Creek National Park, Davies Creek Road, 5 km from Kennedy Highway. (Google, OSM)Description
Pileus 2.5-6.5 cm broad, convex to plane, dry, finely matted, red to brownish red. Flesh pale yellow, unchanging or rarely a pale blue in one, with mild odor and taste. Tubes adnexed, pale yellow to yellow becoming greenish yellow, with pores eventually staining pale brown. Stipe 3-4.5 cm long, 8-20 mm broad, equal or tapering downward, strict or curved, terete or flattened, dry, red subpruinose ridged throughout over pale yellow, pale yellow at base, with interior solid, pale yellow, unchanging.
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Pinwheels and Parachute Mushrooms (Genus Marasmius)Observer
coddiwomplerDescription
Hanging in strands over 1m long from the trees.
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Frillworts (Genus Fossombronia)Observer
chrisseagerDescription
Sorry, no idea
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Genus TubiferaObserver
sarahlloydDescription
8 micron diameter reticulate spores.
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Psilocybe samuiensisObserver
feralberylDescription
Found in cow paddocks in dung and well manured areas
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missaudreyDescription
Growing on wood in rainforest under Banyan & Kentia palms in muttonbird burrow area
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Fungi Including Lichens (Kingdom Fungi)Observer
ppolitoDescription
Sighting and photos (c) paul_fiona_rose_grace_rob.
Field Notes - Approximately 1mm tall.
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Perichaena depressaObserver
ppolitoDescription
Sighting and photos (c) paul_fiona_rose_grace_rob.
Field Notes - Small brown growth possible fungi growing on eucalyptus bark. Shedding upper skin to reveal mustard yellow spurs beneath. Each body is <1mm.
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Australasian Pirate Spiders (Genus Australomimetus)Observer
ppolitoDescription
Sighting and photos (c) paul_fiona_rose_grace_rob.
Field Notes - No idea if this is a fungi. Short, wiry stem embedded in dead wood. Head appears to be made up of several very small pink balls encased in a loose nest of fibre. Entire organism is <1mm tall.
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Genus RoselliniaObserver
ppolitoDescription
Sighting and photos (c) paul_fiona_rose_grace_rob.
Field Notes - Small dark brown balls growing under bark. Each ball comes to a subtle point, and is 1mm wide. No idea if these are past maturity and were a different colour when younger.
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Artist's Brackets, Reishi, and Allies (Genus Ganoderma)Observer
questagameDescription
Sighting and photos (c) mitch_squires.
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Genus CrocinoboletusObserver
adrian_ausDescription
TBH not sure as seems too orange for this sp.
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Common Gilled Mushrooms and Allies (Order Agaricales)Observer
marshallblathers
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Common Gilled Mushrooms and Allies (Order Agaricales)Observer
marshallblathers
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Genus StilbocreaObserver
minx97Description
A fungi Anamorph, the asexual stage.
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Tiny Blue Lights (Mycena lazulina)Observer
felix75Description
On the stem of a Livistona australis frond.
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Tiny Blue Lights (Mycena lazulina)Observer
felix75Description
On the stem of a Livistona australis frond.
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Genus NectriaObserver
felix75Description
On the stem of a Livistona australis frond.
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sypsterDescription
Profuse growth mixed in with the standard clear (white) version.
