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Fistulina hepatica
In the Australian bush dull, dusty browns and greens dominate and the eye is easily drawn to something as brightly coloured as this. Like bright pink foam rubber lips this bracket was squeezing out through a tiny split in the side of a large eucalyptus. About 100mm long it had a very spongy texture and clear yellow tinted liquid dripping from one side.
Eucalyptus rainforest.
There were also a few tiny springtails with zero respect for art obviously hoping for a strawberry flavoured meal. (pic 4) The last shot (pic 6) shows the trunk of the gum tree which was about 1.5 metres diameter but had lost it's lower bark.... one month later it looked like this http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/244...
Spotted on Apr 16, 2013
Submitted on Apr 17, 2013
27 Comments (1–25)
Thanks all .
I had missed this - cool spotting! (and your moving profile photo is nice, too)
Looks like a tongue! (Almost). Nice find!
Wow..yummy :P
Looks like a tasty fruit. Great pics argy.
Name changed 2012 to Tyromyces pulcherrimus.
Thanks Gerardo
Extraordinary great series :)
Thanks so much Martin. It has been more than a pleasure.... I thought cochineal was valid spotting ?
Well Mr. Argy Bee (actually, Mark). Thank you for your massive investment in our PN community and sharing your infectious enthusiasm, hunger for knowledge and rapidly expanding expertise with us all. Thank you and congratulations. I don't know much about fungi, except that red food coloring should be illegal.
Thanks Viv, Cindy, Alice.... I think I'll rest up now... ten minutes should do it.
Great spotting & congratulations on your 1000th argy! A great milestone
Congratulations!! This is a wonderfully weird spotting!
Great series of pics
Leeeeeeeches !!! Ugh. One good thing about droughts....
Congratulations on your fantastic 1000th spotting, argybee - so, the brave trudging through damp leech-infested grass/leaf debris was worth it !!
That is soo cool!!!!
Thanks J. I've just realised the first shot looks like a muppet mouth dribbling beer. :-)
Fantastic spotting, Argy! What a landmark, 1000 spottings, and a spectacular fungus to mark the occasion! Superb detail! Congratulations, my friend, and to many MANY more awesome spottings!
Thanks Antonio. You're more than welcome to come and explore our fungi if yours has finished.
Wow Argy Bee my friend :-) gorgeous find,look's like a frozeen strawberry icecream :-) amazing 1000th spotting,congrats and thanks for sharing such a beautiful spotting page.
I'll be now more in your page,fungi season began in Australia :-) and is finishing arround here,so i "have" :-) to see fungi everyday,and south hemisphere fungi guy's are my refuge during the summer :-)
Thanks everyone. It was a toss-up between this and 999 but, as it turned out, this one seems to be rarer. There's one other on PN but I think it's wrongly ID'd @gully.moy :-)
Very cool and weird!
I see you're near a place called Ferntree Gully which I also find cool and a little weird :-)
What an interesting fungus! Great choice for 1000! Congratulations!
A perfect 1000th!