Blackbutt Creek - orchids vs mushrooms : February 24 2025

Was shaping up as a nowhere day. Had a few big walking days. Keen to get on top of options expiry accounting and write up. Did a lot of that. Had to get out to walk - walked down to Blackbutt Creek to check on chiloglottis orchids

Walked focused on uphill side of track - chiloglottis leaves high up

Acianthus orchid leaves showing up for their season

A burned out mushroom - not burned but aged a bit. Becomes the theme for the day

Hanging onto the mossy bank

The orchids like the mossy banks too

A different sequence of orchids this walk - starting from the top of the hill - chiloglottis seminuda

Budding form - wavy edge to the leaf

Same wavy or different?

Side on - not many calli on the lower part of the labellum - suggests chiloglottis seminuda

Squared out shape of the labellum is a clue too

Great light for photos

Twins - a photographer challenge - what to focus on - picked the flower to the left. Camera did the focus on the cross timber

Note the calli circle below the top section - suggests a different orchid - chiloglottis sylvestris

A big leaf cluster promising more to come

Chiloglottis seminuda

Surprised to find a flannel flower still going

Back to the theme for the day - mushrooms - autumn is on its way

Found a few orchid spots further along the track. There is a dead section where the track gets close to the creek

A bit of rainforest feel and mossy rocks - a budding chiloglottis

Found this mushroom around the turnaround point to walk up to cut across the golf course

Spied this pink mushroom. Moved a leaf away and the mini mushroom was behind

An even more mini version in pink

So a quiet nowhere day turned into a 10k step day.

Dinner: Cottage pie from left over bolognese sauce. My plate after my wife served hers up = life in the gulag

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