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Pholiota aurivella
Three bright yellowish orange mushrooms all in a line growing out of longitudinal cracks in the bark of a Pomaderris aspera tree. The mushroom caps ( 90mm wide) were broadly convex, smooth except for an uneven scattering of deep red wart-like growths. The cap margins seemed to have a ring of a deep red. The gills were the same colour as the cap, slightly crowded and appeared forked. The long bent stalks were smooth and stained dark about 15mm down it then became scabrous all the way to the base.
seen growing on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomaderris_... in damp giant eucalyptus forest
This was an amazing sight and almost unreal ! after looking for interesting mushrooms on the forest floor and dead logs, the sight of these mushrooms marching up a tree or a telegraph pole, was hilarious. My thanks to gully.moy for the ID.
Spotted on Jun 15, 2012
Submitted on Jun 15, 2012
9 Comments
Thanks gully.moy. Hope they don't ask for a spore print !! but will check this out - thanks again.
Some of the images of P.aurivella look like a good match..
Very dark, eh? So I'm leaning towards Pholiota, maybe something close to P. aurivella. If you're interested in perusing an identification, consider posting it on Mushroom Observer.
http://mushroomobserver.org/
Thank you for looking at this and for your comment gully.moy. They were just great to see - a striking feature on this tree. It's a pity I couldn't get spore prints.
The underside between gills looked very dark, the same colour as the small specks on top of the caps in pic #5.
My initial reaction was Gymnopilus too, however the top of the caps look more Pholiota to me. I remain undecided, a spore print would settle it. Do I see some brown spores on the left hand side of the stem in picture 4?
Brown would suggest Pholiota, rusty orange Gymnopilus, but then you wouldn't see orange spores on that orange stem! Also they look very large to me which is more usual for Gymnopilus.
Either way, they're beautiful!
No spore print. I wouldn't dare touch them - too beautiful and they were in a National Park and you're not allowed to disturb anything.
This I think is a Gymnopilus sp - but will keep looking
thanks everyone - I hope I get an ID for these. The fruiting bodies seem to be pushing their way out of those grooves in the bark (pic #1) - real toughies (pic #4)
great cache Leuba,i like the name,very unusual :) thanks for sharing,beautiful spotting
That is neat. Hi rise mushrooms.
wonderful,