Gliophorus versicolor

Found in Hunua Ranges, 12/July/2003, in an experimental Kauri grove. Note the dry Kauri leaves.

Don Horne's version of this (Mushrooms and Other Fungi of New Zealand, 2000) is a lilac blue colour.

Gliophorus versicolor starts lilac and turns pink later, as the cap changes from convex to concave upwards. This is an older version.

Shirley Kerr has various versions of this slimy (glutinous) wax-gill.

Clive Shirley (who identified this specimen) shows it can even be green when very young and it may take a microscope to tell it apart from G. lilacinoides. Horak says G. lilacinoides is never flat or concave - but the example on this web site is concave!!

Colour variations

stereoscopic picture

Colour variations

Here is a group showing colour variation (Hunua ranges).

The front member is half and half, as it is changing colour.

stereoscopic picture