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Canberra Nature Map's Newsletter for June 2025

11 Jul 2025

Hello everyone. Alison Milton has produced the June quarterly CNM newsletter. It has some interesting information about what the Nature Mappers have been doing and finding. We hope you enjoy the read....

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Heinol wrote:

4 hrs ago

I revisited this patch of moss on July 15th and collected two other fungi. The Pholiota was still going strong a month and a half since my previous visit. There were numerous fresh fruitbodies at various stages of growth, some with caps only a few millimetres wide and therefore likely to develop to maturity over the following days.

Pholiota sp.

Heinol wrote:

3 Jul 2025

Along the margin of each tiny, orange apothecium there are well-spaced light brown hairs, which are thick-walled, septate and forked at their bases. On the right of the second image you see two such hairs, each about a fifth of a millimetre long. On the left of the second image you see a number of colourless, spore-filled asci and also numerous paraphyses, amongst which the asci nestle. The paraphyses are coloured, septate and swollen at their apices (up to about 10 micrometres wide). Species of Cheilymenia are mostly found on dung. These were growing on soil, amongst moss (mostly Funaria hygrometrica) in an area that had been burnt last year. In that same spot was the Pholiota that appears at Pholiota sp. (where I include a photo of the moss bed and immediate surrounds).

Cheilymenia spp.

Jennybach wrote:

27 Jun 2025

Wow. I’ll be going back to check out the flowers touch wood.

Speculantha sp.

Jennybach wrote:

27 Jun 2025

Thanks@Heinol. Really appreciate the descriptions and explanations on the fungi species pages

Pholiota sp.

Heinol wrote:

25 Jun 2025

The fungi were growing in an area that had been burnt last year. The second photo shows the patch of moss (mostly Funaria hygrometrica) in which I collected the specimens.

Pholiota sp.