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Armillaria luteobubalina
A beautiful clump of creamy yellow mushrooms, the largest of which was about30mm wide. Caps were rough and shiny but not moist. The roughness was due to tiny brown "scaly" structures on the pileus. these tended to be more concentrated near the centre of the cap. The edge of the cap was stained yellow as was the slightly furry stipe. The most interesting feature of these mushrooms was the partial veil seen in almost all of them. Pic #3 shows an intact veil across the entire underside of the cap, covering the gills. The veil seem to be puckered up into tiny yellow projections about two thirds of the way towards the stipe. Pic #4 shows some of the yellow veil torn off at the margin to reveal white gills. Pic #5 shows a section of the cap with a peeled back veil hanging down from the stipe.
Damp Eucalyptus Forest. There were several clumps of these mushrooms under one tall eucalyptus tree. I did not see these mushrooms anywhere else in that part of the forest.
This was an amazing find, for me. especially one with the partial veil intact. This fungus is parasitic and infects weak eucalyptus trees causing massive die-backs. It is native to Australia and has lived among the eucalypts for centuries. My thanks to Lars Korb and Clive Shirley with the identification of this fungus. http://www.fungiphoto.com/CTLG/pages/077...
Spotted on May 4, 2012
Submitted on May 6, 2012
4 Comments
argybee, I also noticed that the gills were a pure white and the veil ( ? cortina) was more yellow than the Gymnopilus sp. The mushrooms were little toughies, they bounced back like rubber when you flicked them - thanks for you suggestion.
Lars, Thanks for having a look at this. Yes, all the mushrooms had the yellow veil under the cap and yellow projections. In some of the mushrooms, the veil showed vertical splits between the little yellow projections. I thought they were honey mushrooms too but they were not slimy or viscid.
@ argybee -the scaly description is perhaps misleading. The caps were really rough to touch with little brown crusty bits, projecting outwards.
http://australianfungi.blogspot.com.au/2...
First look reminded me of Sulfur Tuft, secon look of Honey Mushrooms...the last 3 pics wiped that away...did all specimen show these yellow ends under the cap?