Scleroderma sp. at Clyde River Retreat

Scleroderma at Clyde River Retreat

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Identification history

	Scleroderma sp.	10 Jul 2019	Pam
	Unidentified	6 Jul 2019	ClydeRiver

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Hope I am not making a mess of this, I am having a little difficulty with the nature map interface today ... I thought I had put this up already but can't see it so here it is. This was close to the other black fungus and looked very like wombat scat. It is hollow with a stalk and is near the veg patch ... Done.

11 comments

ClydeRiver wrote:

11 Jul 2019

10/07/19 This is the same toadstool as I had posted early when browner and more mottled ... a mycorrhizal fungus. I will take down the other entry and combine the photographs at some point ...

ClydeRiver wrote:

11 Jul 2019

Done.

Pam wrote:

11 Jul 2019

Image four is definitely a Scleroderma sp., colour and that stem with white mycelium at it's base. The others are possibly just very aged versions of the same thing!

Sorry I've been out of touch a bit, my husband hit his leg with the chainsaw!!!! All rather dramatic, so I'm a bit distracted at the moment.............

ClydeRiver wrote:

11 Jul 2019

Ouch ... I thought you might have gone into overdrive with my over-indulgent drivel (ie my idea of humour) on the Horse dung fungus sighting ... hope he still has the leg attached ...

ClydeRiver wrote:

11 Jul 2019

Seems appropriate that scleroderma refers to the skin really ... hope his skin and connective tissue hardened has not been too badly damaged where he attacked it ...

Pam wrote:

12 Jul 2019

Leg still attached! He has been very fortunate in not hitting any bone, just missed his knee and only knicking a tendon, muscles and flesh not so fortunate. He'll have a great scar to show for it. Don't know about tough skin, more like thick head!!

By the way I enjoy your humour, it always adds to the day.

ClydeRiver wrote:

12 Jul 2019

Messy - hope you were not too far from a hospital. That beats my hitting my ankle with an axe by a mile ... we have a nice little hospital 40 mins away in Milton.

Pam wrote:

12 Jul 2019

I don't know they are both pretty gruesome. How's your ankle now? By the time I rang 000 and raced back down the hill paddock to where Jim was 20m from an access road, the ambulance had arrived!!! It had been driving down the M1 when the call went out and it just had to swing off it onto the Pacific Hwy and then Ourimbah Ck. Rd. The new Gosford hospital is only about 20 mins., normally, from our place...where they put him on 'fast track' emergency. So all good in a way.

ClydeRiver wrote:

12 Jul 2019

Fine - wasn't major, just stupid.

Pam wrote:

13 Jul 2019

Couldn't have said it better myself! But still a pretty nasty price to pay for being stupid - though lesson learned.

ClydeRiver wrote:

13 Jul 2019

You see now, this is much more informative and entertaining ... your colleagues are very straight and never enter in to any jolly discussions ... sighting confirmed and end of story!!

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