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Red-staining Stalked Polypore Fungi
Amauroderma rude
-33.3817, 151.484
Field Notes
Description:
Lumpy, thick, fungi roughly circular and from about four cm up to dinner-plate size. I cannot remember what that underside is called. Image five and six show the fungi as it was picked and then twenty minutes later. When picked it had a soft leathery, dry surface. Twenty minutes later the colour of the underside darkened to look like old blood and the smell was very bad at fifty cm. The fungi was like a very wet sponge and possibly gained a lot of water.
Habitat:
Open beneath beneath the drip zone of smooth-barked gum trees. (Image four opens to a group of four trees to the left.) There were no fungi outside of the drip zone at all and three or four four species within including this one which was prolific. The soil in the meadow is clay based with pea gravel and probably the original soil before the area was built up. Low grasses and a few coastal Banksia
Notes:
old wet spongy thing fungi. The description is assisted by information that the underside of this genus will go red when damaged or picked and also that it darkens with age as this one has
http://www.blueswami.com/australian_fungi.html?page=0&scope=1&sortby=id…
It is a guess at this stage. The information online is a little confusing
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