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Cortinarius austroveneta
Smooth caps with colour varying from pale greenish yellow at the margin to dark blue-green in the centres. Caps are rounded to flat domes approximately 60mm wide. Stipe is scaly pale yellow. Same colour for the gills.
Under an open mixture of eucalyptus and pines with dense buffalo grass.
Fairly common but often difficult to see if they are in green grass. Found in Tas, Vic, SA, NSW, WA
Spotted on Jun 10, 2012
Submitted on Jun 10, 2012
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19 Comments
Named changed from Dermocybe to Cortinarius
What an irony! Never heard about a mushroom in color. Wonderful!
Great name too... quite a mouthful!
Arlanda, Leuba, Gerardo, Mayra, Sergio - thanks for the nice comments... we can have greens with our mushrooms now in a single ingredient.
Quite unusual, at least for me. Good one, Argy.
Lovely!
Wonderful never seen a green cap one:)
This is a real beauty -you are sooooo lucky argybee !-what a find and . These make me smile because they look so like my favourite green tree frog from Queensland -like the one in ShannaB's spotting below
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/909...
Impressive!
Thanks everyone for the comments and likes. These were a find that almost made me laugh - sort of like 'You guys have got to be joking!' @asterope1 I checked BlueSwami and he says inedible - you're right though it about being not too appealing... a bit like eating Kermit the Frog. Actually they remind me a bit of the green tree frogs up north - sort of floppy looking.
amazing!!
An amazing and well spotted spotting ArgyBee - it is very interesting that they have green caps... a lot of the blue-staining boletes that we *occasionally* get up here can look green but that is due to trauma.
Are these edible at all? not that they look particularly appetising!
My, this is my first time to see a green fungus. Thanks ArgyBee for sharing.
very cool indeed great capture Argy
Green caps...so cool. The fungi world down under is really astonishing.
Well now we know they are not concealing their odor. I wonder if they have chlorophyll and if so, what would that mean taxonomically? Hmmm... This organism may have a hidden surprise for us to uncover.
I've thought long and hard about it martin and I can't think of any reason why a mushroom would want to hide. I've decided they don't even know they are green.
Yes these were a thrill to find martin. I've saw them in our books but didn't think I would find some. Actually the dog found them just sniffing around and wouldn't come when I called. I suppose I should start a PN account in her name... then again she would only want to put up 'sniffings' instead of spottings.
Very pretty. I've not seen anything like this.
Why do you suppose they are green (camouflage?) while no other fungi do?