Auricularia pusio group
4 Banksia Street Wetland Corridor
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| Auricularia pusio group | Heino1 | 18 Jun 2024 | |
| Auricularia mesenterica | trevorpreston | 12 Jun 2024 | |
| Unverified | trevorpreston | 11 Jun 2024 |
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Weirdly soft and fleshy fungi growing on old log.
11 comments
12 Jun 2024
It certainly looks like it @Heino1 . Can you add it as a species and confirm? Easy to get a sample if you need it!
13 Jun 2024
@trevorpreston. I’ll go to the Banksia Street Wetland , probably on the weekend, and collect some for the herbarium. Your sighting Auricularia pusio group is probably the same species.
13 Jun 2024
I think so too. The sighting might even be from the same log.
To find it just have a look under or on the side of the big log by the path.
To find it just have a look under or on the side of the big log by the path.
18 Jun 2024
Very easy to find Trevor! I've collected some for a herbarium specimen and put ex situ photos at https://canberra.naturemapr.org/sightings/4576883. For anyone curious about the use of pusio group, the explanation is at https://canberra.naturemapr.org/species/21412.
18 Jun 2024
Trevor, I forgot to add that if you look on the Atlas of Living Australia, Auricularias of the pusio type have mostly been found far, far north of here. The exceptions are two sightings, the closest to Canberra, one from the Sydney area and the other west of Albury.
18 Jun 2024
@Heino1 that makes me wonder where these logs came from, maybe the fungus was transported here via the logs?
18 Jun 2024
Thanks for your work on this @Heino1 . I very much appreciate your contribution to better public knowledge of fungi species through NatureMapr.
18 Jun 2024
@trevorpreston or it's just a case of perfect conditions for a local fungus to have shown itself in such abundance. With lots of people putting up sightings on CNM, it's not surprising that previously unseen fungi are getting recorded. It helps that the log was positioned where it is. Just imagine if it had been amongst the dense Poa grass tussocks a little further on at that wetland.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.118547-35.257471
- Altitude 610.0m
- Maps Banksia Street Wetland Corridor
- Places O'Connor, ACT
Sighting information
- 10 Abundance
- 11 Jun 2024 02:21 PM Recorded on
- trevorpreston Recorded by
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- Featured trevorpreston Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Other non-black fungi Other fungi on wood Fungi Auricularia pusio group
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- Auricularia pusio group Scientific name
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- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 610m Recorded at altitude
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