March 26, 2018
By: Michael Fox
Thanks to our Photography Workshop leader Alan Moore we have an extraordinary fungi tour of colour and shape.
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January 17, 2011
Mycena lampadis Luminous Mushroom
Fireflies now glow-in-the-dark mushrooms!
Same mushroom under torch light
Carol, who sent the firefly photos, called me late the other night inviting me to see the glow-in-the-dark mushrooms in their gully. Extraordinary, spooky and a very very special experience: walking thought the dark with the only light these amazing fungi.
Seeing these luminous mushrooms during the day they look like just another delicate white fungi.
The Springbrook Research Centre has information on bioluminescence.
The Mountain continues to surprise and delight. Listen to my interview with Kelly Higgins-Devine: 612ABC Drive.
See more of our amazing mushrooms: read my article on Forest Fungi.
June 5, 2010
Fleshy Pore fungi are a suprise. They often look like the mushroom form gilled fungi from the top, however, underneath instead of gills you discover a sponge like fertile surface.
Fleshy Pore fungi have some amazing shapes.
June 5, 2010
The rain this year has bought out an amazing range of fungi in our forest. We have also been lucky to have a visiting fungi expert, photographer and author, Duane Sept, visiting from Canada.
Duane’s visit prompted this month’s article for the Southside Community News – Forest Fungi – not just what you see.
Using categories developed in discussion with Duane, I have now added a Fungi category into the MEG publication Flora & Fauna of Mt Gravatt Reserve – Sue Jones & Michael Fox.
See some of the special forest fungi found in Mt Gravatt Reserve:
June 5, 2010
I have grouped our Gilled Fungi into Mushroom style, Bracket and Funnel shapes 
and Simple Gills.
Mushroom style:
Russula persanguinea
A beautiful red and white topped mushroom style fungi.
Common in eucalypt forests this one was found in Gertrude Petty Place.
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This orange mushroom style fungi was found in Fox Gully. Note the distinct gills on the underside.
Bracket and Funnel Shaped:
A beautiful bracket shaped white fungi growing on a log in Fox Gully.
These unusual funnel shaped gilled fungi were found in Fox Gully Zone 17 our latest restoration site.
Simple Gills:
M ycena sp – Simple gilled fungi – note the tall thin stems.
Tiny bright red simple gilled fungi make the surrounding leaves look like giants.
These purple simple gilled fungi were growing up through a Craypot Stinkhorn fungi. The stems on these fungi were not much thicker than a pin.
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