Substrate Beilschmeidia tarairi. Forest type: mature taraire dominant hardwood forest. White above, below and within, bruising brownish. Spines up to 7mm toward the centre on the underside. Easily torn. Seemed to have a stipe (photos 1, 7 and 9). Photo 8 shows pileus surface.
Thick leathery-spongy brackets growing on poplar stumps. Upper surface coarsely hairy. Lower surface with large pores (2 pores per mm). Pore layer up to 5 mm thick.
just one. cap size approx 10cm. mixed forest so not sure what kind of wood it was fruiting from. fleshy/flexible
Common. On the basal trunk of an ailing rawiri (Kunzea linearis). Fruiting bodies numerous, these whitish with very faint pale yellow striping, pliant (flexible).
Voucher: P.J. de Lange 14265 & T.J.P. de Lange, UNITEC, PDD
On hillside among native bush and open stringybark forest. On sandy clay soil with rocky quartzite and sandstone outcrops.
Last photo shows the pile of decayed wood pushed out by the cluster.
In light of the problems identifying this (here's the original observation), I returned this afternoon and photographed this fungus (in the rain!). Tried to get details of the underneath; hope these are adequate.
Had a good look around but this was the only specimen I could find.
Solid, dense, soft fluffy outer covering which can be depressed, and bruises darker.
The Stereum and Phlebia incarnata motherlode.
Specimen Record Number: SD0001
Mucked up a little, thought I took a photo in situ but took a photo of a totally different species..
On fallen, well decayed pine. Leathery flesh, woody stipe. Smell very much like fresh A. bisporus. Taste vaguely mealy/woody.
Added photos, and had a better look at the fallen wood - crack willow, not privet. Has a brittle texture, closer to rubbery than most brackets I've come across.
Tiny brown ping-pong bats. White underside, pored.
Collected 1xDNA, 1x sample tube.
Curtain Fig. Poorsaddle. Robust with soft feel. Not easily damaged. Just smaller than hand.
Roughly 30cm diameter for the smallest one at the top.
Sapromamanita galerumgandalfi (ined.), aka Noddy Flycap (Amanita 2 Ridley). Photos taken by Wael Abbas and posted here as a record with his permission. Unfortunately, the Sydney herbarium said it was unimportant so it was not kept for scientific study.
On a quartzite outcrop among stringybark eucalyptus north of Thornbill track in Sir Mark Oliphant Conservation Park.
This was growing on a mature acacia tree. Multiple fruiting bodies under the tree, this one being knee height. The bark was loose, and although the tree was still alive was clearly sick.
Growing on a fallen beech log in beech-dominant native forest. Up to 10 cm across, dark brown woody brackets with numerous layers stacked vertically. Pore surface white which marks slightly when scratched (see third photo) but does not leave a dark brown mark as with Ganoderma. The fourth photo shows a larger and much older specimen of presumably the same thing on a nearby stump, covered in brown spores.
Common. Emergent amongst Hypnum cupressiforme and Chiloscyphus semiteres in open ground at the top of coastal cliffs.
Both upper and underside is Orange toned. The upperside also has a strikingly bright orange band around the outer rim (Is far brighter than the photos show). Handling this fungi leaves a turmeric-like colour on your fingers.
Texture was sightly fleshy/moist.
A Sample will be lodged in cairns JCU herbarium. Code: OAM1.