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Hohenbuehelia sp.
Grey topped, white margin, inside-out oyster looking mushrooms about 20mm wide completely consuming an upright trunk of unknown tree species over a length of 2.5 metres, looking very much like grey toothed jelly fungus which grow on eucalyptus but this one has gills.
Very tall and damp eucalyptus forest.
Stipeless centre (pic#3).
Resupinatus applicatus is also known as smoked oysterling or the black jelly oyster....
Yet to work through Jen's comments.... Fuhrer(2005) has 15-18mm diameter for applicatus but only 10-12mm for cinerascens... ?? Both are known in Australia. R.applicatus has been found on eucalyptus but is common in pine forests. There were no known pines in this area. R.cinerascens apparently begins life with a hoary tomentum which is lost somewhat with age... no sign here? Aus images for c show mostly tight, round fruiting bodies?
No luck yet on any Australian Hohie images that match... all very different.
Some species of Hohenbuehelia eat (dissolve) nematodes!
http://www.blueswami.com/FungiPhotos2.ht...
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/df67afce-1...
Also see here http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/415...
Spotted on May 1, 2012
Submitted on May 15, 2012
16 Comments
We have since found more similar. Thanks again for your insights Jen and hope your work is going well.
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:c...
If te size doesn't correspond, then I think you're down to 2 options. Either it's the new species that looks like a Hohenbuehelia but is actually a Resupinatus (a new species not yet described from New Zealand) or its actually a Hohenbuehelia. What makes me think it's a "hoh" is the fact that it has a much lighter margin than the rest of the cup, and that looks glue-y and translucent when fresh
Hmm... someone has described Resupinatus cinerascens as not more than half the size of these ? Looking for more accurate descriptions...
Beautiful capture Argy,congrats and thanks for sharing
I forgot to say Welcome to Project Noah. I hope you enjoy the website. There are some fabulous fungi in here - particularly older spottings. We had an extraordinary season last year and learned an incredible amount from scratch. We probably made heaps of errors but we are continually working back through it. Our difficulty with ID's is compounded, as you would know, by the unique history of this continent, AND the incredible rate of invasion. It has really piqued our fascination and we are just beginning to feel regret at the apparent onset of yet more drought just before our next Autumn :-( Good luck with finalising your PhD. What a great subject to do.
You are most welcome. The Australasian species of Resupinatus have been especially headache-inducing in my research...lots of new species to science that are mislabelled, going as far back as 1850 in Australian herbaria! It's been an interesting challenge for me. After discovering Project Noah this evening, a whole new source of information is now at my fingertips! This website is great :)
And thanks for the blog comment!
Nice blog btw. :)
Thanks so much for that input Jen. This one was difficult to track down and I wasn't fully confident of where I got to. I'll look into it.
Hi there
I think what you have there is a Hohenbuehelia. They used to be considered closely related to Resupinatus, but actually aren't. If it is actually a Resupinatus, I would apply the name Resupinatus cinerascens (a species similar to R. applicatus, but known only from Australia)
Thanks Rachael, gatorfellows, Emma. @Emma that's a fascinating piece of information... must search for more on that one. Thanks again.
lovely photos
The latest update on Oyster mushrooms is that they are " Carnivores" They were known as Saprophytes till now but that has changed when it was discovered that they feed on live nematodes.
Nice :-)
Just for you Rachael... pic 4. I think a kind of crane fly.
What's the insect that you've captured in the 2nd shot?