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Photo by Mark Ridgway
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Field Notes

Description:

A pair of small fungi growing in woodchip mulch. The cap is flat with darker coouring towards the centre, slightly upturned margin; gill look pale but stained by dark spore; stipe lightly hirsute narrow dark. 45mm across, 60mm tall. The smaller one had a very dark cap and the larger one a very pale one.

Habitat:

Council woodchip mulch bordering sports field and open dry eucalyptus forest.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (4)
Mark Ridgway
Impressive collection !.. I'll be back in a week when I've checked it out :-)
lightworkerpeace
Yes, I usually post at least a few at: http://mushroomobserver.org/observer/observations_by_user/3525
Mark Ridgway
I agree it's not ideal for ID - it's partly about the pic :-) Corts are a monster group. Thanks for the input. You obviously know fungi.. got some to share?
lightworkerpeace
Tough to see the features in this particular image. Possibly a Cortinarius species.

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PublishedSeptember 8, 2012

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