Csteele4
I'm Christina/Tina, and I am self employed running a creative fibre business dyeing yarns and fibre inspired by the colours of native flora and fauna. I also work casually for an ecological consulting company doing flora surveys, and am learning the skills to assist with fauna, as well. I'm a volunteer firey, and after spending all of the summer of 2019/2020 firefighting, I left my job as a local librarian for a bit of a break, became very interested in the incredible plants which started to emerge in the local bushland when the rains came in spring, and went back to Uni part-time to finish the Environmental Science degree I had started and then paused in 2015, changing my major to Conservation Ecology with a minor in Botany. I'm currently studying via distance at UNE.
Moderator categories
Csteele4 is a moderator for the following categories:
Fungi | Caps on stems; gills below caps [mushrooms or mushroom-like] Caps on stems; none of the above Caps conical/spherical & deeply pitted [morels] Caps funnel-like Caps otherwise Caps saddle-like to markedly convoluted [false morels] Caps on stems; pores below caps [boletes & stemmed polypores] Boletes - Fleshy texture, stems central (more-or-less) Polypores - Non-fleshy texture, stems central or lateral Caps on stems; teeth below caps Caps, gills below, no stem & usually on wood [stemless mushrooms & the like] Furry, white or greyish upper surfaces Gills connected by cross veins Other caps, gills below, no stem Clubs or stalks (maybe a forked or broader apex) Clubs/stalks on invertebrates Clubs/stalks on soil Clubs/stalks on wood or on leaf/twig litter Convoluted to brain-like [Brain jelly & look-alikes] Coralloid fungi, markedly branched Disk-like to cup-like Cup with one or more 'eggs' inside [birds nest fungi and cannonball fungus] Cups or disks - with no 'eggs' Fungal galls, other rusts, leaf spots, etc Fungal galls Other rusts, leaf spots, sooty moulds Other fungi Moulds Not moulds Other fungi on wood Jelly-like; smooth, featureless surface Other black fungi <hysterothecial> Other non-black fungi Spherical or cobblestone-like or spotted/pimpled crust <perithecial> Puffballs & the like Fruitbody thick walled, splitting from the top Fruitbody walls break away to expose the spores Other puffballs, etc (& the unknowns) Simple spore sac, with an apical hole [puffballs] Spore sac on a star-like base [earthstars] Shelf-like to hoof-like & usually on wood Pored or somewhat maze-like on underside [bracket polypores] Teeth on underside Underside smooth or wrinkled/roughened <Stereum etc> Stinkhorns: with a smelly, brownish spore slime Stinkhorns, cage-like Stinkhorns, radiating arms atop a stem Stinkhorns, some other shape- and miscellaneous Truffles Uncategorised FungiCacti & Succulents | Climbers & Mistletoes Daisies Ferns and Clubmosses Grasses Gum Trees Lilies & Irises Other Fresh Water Plants Other Shrubs Other Trees Other Wildflowers & Herbs Peas Rushes, Sedges & Mat Rushes Wattles
Slime Moulds (Myxomycetes)
Moderator locations
Csteele4 is a moderator for the following locations:
Captains Flat, NSW | Tallaganda National Park | Tallaganda State Forest
![Unidentified Cap on a stem; gills below cap [mushrooms or mushroom-like] at Glen Allen, NSW - 18 Jan 2024 by Csteele4](https://api.naturemapr.org/api/sightings/4546097/images/1?width=400&height=400 "Unidentified Cap on a stem; gills below cap [mushrooms or mushroom-like] at Glen Allen, NSW - 18 Jan 2024 by Csteele4")
![Unidentified Cap on a stem; gills below cap [mushrooms or mushroom-like] at Glen Allen, NSW - 18 Jan 2024 by Csteele4](https://api.naturemapr.org/api/sightings/4546097/images/1?width=240&height=240 "Unidentified Cap on a stem; gills below cap [mushrooms or mushroom-like] at Glen Allen, NSW - 18 Jan 2024 by Csteele4")
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Fungi
- Caps on stems; gills below caps [mushrooms or mushroom-like]
- Caps on stems; pores below caps [boletes & stemmed polypores]
- Caps on stems; teeth below caps
- Caps on stems; none of the above
- Caps, gills below, no stem & usually on wood [stemless mushrooms & the like]
- Shelf-like to hoof-like & usually on wood
- Puffballs & the like
- Stinkhorns: with a smelly, brownish spore slime
- Clubs or stalks (maybe a forked or broader apex)
- Coralloid fungi, markedly branched
- Disk-like to cup-like
- Convoluted to brain-like [Brain jelly & look-alikes]
- Fungal galls, other rusts, leaf spots, etc
- Other fungi on wood
- Truffles
- Other fungi
- Uncategorised Fungi
