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<![CDATA[FungiOz - Australian fungi & more - Blog]]>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:06:04 +1100Weebly<![CDATA[December 08th, 2014]]>Mon, 08 Dec 2014 08:00:07 GMThttp://www.fungioz.com/blog/december-08th-2014Four Australian Bolete Fungi
with many more on FungiOz app

Boletellus obscurecoccineus

Boletellus Obscurecoccinnus

Boletellus Obscurecoccinnus

Boletellus Obscurecoccineus is also known as the Rhubarb bolete. It is stunning and quite common in Australian Eucalypt forest. The flocked, puce upper surface makes it a joy to touch as well as look at.

Fistulina Mollis

Picture of the Australian fungi, Fistulina Mollis

Fistulina Mollis

Fistulina Mollis is known as The Marshmallow Bolete due to the collapsible softness of it's tubes and pores. it's skin is very glutinous, sticky and can be stretched without breaking.

Phlebopus marginatus

Picture of Phlebopus marginatus

Phlebopus marginatus

Phlebopus Marginatus is a giant Australian mushroom that can grow as large as a metre wide. The flesh of cap and stem is solid but cuts rather like cake with only a little blueing. It was thought to be ectomycorrhizal but recent studies suggest otherwise and efforts to cultivate this fungi are underway in Thailand.

Austroboletus Niveus

Picture of Austroboletus niveus

Austroboletus niveus

This Australian Austroboletus fungi grows singly or in small groups in eucalyptus wood land. The size varies to about 16 cm tall and7 -8 cm across and the stem is deeply reticulated. Both the stem and cap surface sweat viscid and very bitter amber droplets and the stem surface is quite slimy. In contrast, the cap surface is a pinky matt with incurred margins that are slightly appendiculate. The tubes and pores are white and the spore print is pinkish- brown.

]]><![CDATA[Features to note when describing Ramarias, Clavarias and other Coralloid fungi]]>Sun, 07 Dec 2014 10:01:54 GMThttp://www.fungioz.com/blog/features-to-note-when-describing-ramarias-clavarias-and-other-coralloid-fungiRamaria fungi are coral-like mushrooms with multiple branches. Their spores are ochre-yellow to brown-tinted and are ornamented with warts, striations or spines. Clavarias have white spores and do not branch multiple times.

According to Geoffrey Young of Queensland Mycological society, of probably 100 Australian Ramaria species, only nineteen have published scientific descriptions.

Currently, FungiOz app includes 17 Australian Ramarias, most of which are unidentified.

Apparently many herbarium samples do not include adequate descriptions of macro features that can aid identification. Adding photos and descriptions of identifying characteristics to face-book posts of Ramaria fungi would therefore be more helpful than a single photo of the whole fungi.

Important observable features include colour details, the shapes of the apices and branch axils, the texture of branches and whether or not there are rizomorphs or aborted branches that have not developed. A reasonably detailed recording sheet for describing macro features of Ramaria species can be found here.

Below are examples of just some of the characteristics that can differ in Ramaria Clavaria, Aphalaria and other types of Coralloid fungi

Some Types of Apices in Coralloid fungi

Spachulate apices - fIattened as in Aphelaria sp

Dichotomous and rounded

Flat - topped, blunt

Cuspidate- Multiple bumps like chewing teeth

Dichotomous (double headed)
and awl shaped, pointy

Dichotomous spines

Some Types of Coralloid fungi branch surfaces and axils

Rugose, knobbly and contorted surface

Vertical branches with a powdery surface and acuteIy angled axils

Antler-like stems and apices

Lobed rather than branched

Vertically striated branches with lines extending down from the axils.

Rounded axils and smooth branches

Aborted branches on the main stalk

]]><![CDATA[A large Australian Purple and Yellow Bolete]]>Thu, 04 Dec 2014 08:50:01 GMThttp://www.fungioz.com/blog/a-large-australian-purple-and-yellow-bolete

Picture of an 8-10 inch unidentified Australian bolete

8-10 inch Australian bolete

Picture of the mature pink stem and yellow pores of a large unidentifiedAustralian bolete

Stem becomes pink and pores become yellow

The mature cap of this very large unidentified Australian Bolete is about 20 cm or 8 inches in diameter. Its stem becomes pink and the complementary coloured yellow pores and mauve cap make it a splendid sight on the Australian eucalypt forest floor. It is certainly a boletale fungus but whether it is a bolete or one of the other genera must await scientific analysis.

As shown below, this bolete grows from white mycelium and the buttons are tightly convex to sub-globose.

The stem begins as white, velvety and sometimes caepetose, meaning that two mushrooms can be joined at their base.

The tan stains on the stem were from bruising via rubbing against forest floor debris as the lines on the right hand specimen shows.

Notice also the viscid amber sweat beads around the base.

The cap matures to become almost flat with slightly incurved, uneven and wavy margins.

Picture of an aerolate fungi surface

Aerolate surface

Its skin begins as finely velvet mauve, but becomes areolate, meaning that it develops fine cracks that expose underlying yellow skin.

This Bolete mushroom's Pores and Tubes are initially white and very tightly packed before becoming yellow and wider. The mature pores have multiple shapes and the sporeprint is yellow-brown.

It's flesh is thick, white and does not bruise when cut or exposed to air.

Found: Several years running, early in the season in narrow peppermint bushland, (EVC 45) in Forrest, the northern edge of Australia's Otway ranges.

]]><![CDATA[Easy reporting to FungiMap through FungiOz app]]>Thu, 04 Dec 2014 01:37:30 GMThttp://www.fungioz.com/blog/easy-reporting-to-fungimap-through-fungioz-app

Picture of The FungiOz app form for easy reporting fungi sightings to FungiMap

The FungiOz app form for easy reporting fungi sightings to FungiMap

Did you know the Map a Species tab in FungiOz app makes it easy to report target fungi species to Fungimap?

The form has been developed in consultation with Fungimap.

You will notice that your name and email is optional but you need to make a selection from the copyright permission options to upload.

Once your photos are on your I0S or android device you can easily upload without being tied to your computer and scanner.

You can also fill in the form on your PC or MAC through the FungiOz.mobapp.at version of the app but you cant send photos using this method.

Each month a spreadsheet with the information from all the uploaded forms are sent on to Fungimap.

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