1 Red Woodchip Fungus at Hughes, ACT
Identification history
| Leratiomyces ceres | 23 Apr 2019 | Heino1 | ||
| Leratiomyces ceres | 17 Apr 2019 | Pam | ||
| Unidentified | 3 Apr 2019 | ruthkerruish |
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User's notes
Cap is conical initially, then flattens out, is 2.5 to 3.5 cm diameter, stalk is 5 cm long. Lovely pure colour.
6 comments
KenT
wrote:
4 Apr 2019
This looks somewhat like the red brick caps (Hypholoma lateritium syn Hypholoma sublateritium) from the northern hemisphere (UK, Europe, US etc). This is assuming the caps are far from mature and are growing in a leafy wood chip mulch.
ruthkerruish
wrote:
4 Apr 2019
The caps are certainly brick red and seem to have veil remnants round the edge in older caps. Growing in leaf mulch, cant see any wood chips. I notice they are listed as mildly poisonous - maybe I had better remove them. them.
Heino1
wrote:
8 Apr 2019
Certainly something in the Hypholoma line and another possibility is Leratiomyces ceres, which was once placed in the genus Hypholoma.
Pam
wrote:
17 Apr 2019
Those little white flecks around the edge of the cap, along with the other characters are typical of Leratiomyces ceres as you suggest Heino
ruthkerruish
wrote:
17 Apr 2019
I removed a few but many more have developed and I have left them because they wont last long in this dry weather and they are very attractive.!
ruthkerruish
wrote:
17 Apr 2019
I removed a few but many more have developed and I have left them because they wont last long in this dry weather and they are very attractive.!
Location information
- Coordinates 149.098769-35.338292
- Altitude 618.7m
- Maps Hughes Garran Woodland
- Places Hughes, ACT
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 3 Apr 2019 03:00 PM Recorded on
- ruthkerruish Recorded by
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Collections
Fungi Caps on stems; gills below caps [mushrooms or mushroom-like] ruthkerruish
Species information
- Leratiomcyes ceres Scientific name
- Red Woodchip Fungus Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Cosmopolitan
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1398.1m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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Synonyms
Hypholoma aurantiacum Stropharia aurantiaca Hypholoma aurantiacum, Stropharia aurantiacum
