Clavariaceae

This stuff was simply everywhere! Photographed in the Blue Tier on the Goblin Forest track.

This stuff was simply everywhere! Photographed in the Blue Tier on the Goblin Forest track.

This stuff was simply everywhere! Amusingly, I've seen photos of this particular and very distinctive (the split branch) fruiting body a couple of times on the Tasmanian Fungi Facebook page. We weren't the only ones to see and photograph it! :-)Photographed in the Blue Tier on the Goblin Forest track.

I first thought that this litle fungi was a Yellow Club / Gele Knotszwam (Clavulinopsis helveola), but I have been corrected and it turns out to be a Moor Club / Heideknotszwam (Clavaria argillace).

I decided to post a bunch of coral fungi we found last September around the Mukhrino field station, together with Nina Filippova. Nina did her best to identify our finds.They're an amazing example of convergent evolution - Ramariopsis belongs to the order Agaricales, while the very similar Ramaria is a genus in the order Gomphales. Moreover, Calocera viscosa, another branched, bright orange "coral" very similar to the Ramariopsis in this photo, belongs to the Dacrymycetes - a completely different class of fungi! It's all about the most efficient size/surface/volume ratio :)

Ramariopsis crocea

Photographed in Mt Field National Park, along the Russell and Horseshoe Falls track.Clavulinopsis amoenaIDENTIFYING AUSTRALIAN RAINFOREST PLANTS,TREES & FUNGI - Flick Group --> DATABASE INDEX - TAGS

Nouvel atlas de poche des champignons comestibles et veneneux. v.1.Paris,Leon Lhome,1911-1912.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3895019

At first I thought this was Clavulinopsis sulcata, but when I looked at all the other photos we'd taken at the time in the area, I'm now not so sure. www.flickr.com/photos/gugglebun/14957997718/in/set-721576...www.flickr.com/photos/gugglebun/14957902700/in/set-721576...www.flickr.com/photos/gugglebun/15144179732/in/set-721576...This particular outcrop was of mostly single, almost cylindrical rods, poking up through the lichen. They aren't grooved or branched like the other fungi and they are also a deeper colour. It really has the look of Clavulinopsis amoena, except that it is deep orange in colour.www.flickr.com/photos/gugglebun/14801615153/in/set-721576...Bruce Fuhrer has in his field guide a species called Clavulinopsis corallinorosacea. I looked it up on the Atlas of Living Australia and there are no records of it being in Tasmania. It's a pity I couldn't get a collection as looking at the spores would immediately clear up my confusion.Photographed in the Blue Tier on the Goblin Forest track.

Photographed along the Duckhole Lake track, in a Forestry Tasmania area near Strathblane.IDENTIFYING AUSTRALIAN RAINFOREST PLANTS,TREES & FUNGI - Flick Group --> DATABASE INDEX - TAGS

Mid August - Central Ontario hardwood forest.Det. Yves Lamoureux.

Dr Tony Young has kindly helped me as much as he could with this one. It could be a Ramaria (subgenus Echinoramaria) or a Ramariopsis species. This is one that I really wished I could have collected a specimen! Photographed in Burnie, at the Fern Glade Reserve.

Crowned Clavaria (Clavaria pyxidata)taken along the AT in GA

A widespread species, also known as C. fragilis and by the common name of Fairy Fingers.

A very distinctive little fungus! There was quite a lot of it. Photographed in the Mole Creek Karst National Park, at King Solomons Cave.IDENTIFYING AUSTRALIAN RAINFOREST PLANTS,TREES & FUNGI - Flick Group --> DATABASE INDEX - TAGS

Photographed in the Mole Creek Karst National Park, at King Solomons Cave.IDENTIFYING AUSTRALIAN RAINFOREST PLANTS,TREES & FUNGI - Flick Group --> DATABASE INDEX - TAGS

Photographed in the Mole Creek Karst National Park, at King Solomons Cave.IDENTIFYING AUSTRALIAN RAINFOREST PLANTS,TREES & FUNGI - Flick Group --> DATABASE INDEX - TAGS

A very distinctive little fungus! Photographed in the Mole Creek Karst National Park, at King Solomons Cave.IDENTIFYING AUSTRALIAN RAINFOREST PLANTS,TREES & FUNGI - Flick Group --> DATABASE INDEX - TAGS