Another walk

 We continue to take our exercise walks.

Todays walk featured some burnt trunks ...

.. and some really burnt trunks!

In a couple of spots the rain has washed away the soil between bits of gravel giving an even of the gravel like a capstone on a hoodoo.  These are only 5 -10 cm high but look quite amusing.

A very interesting fungus.  It is in the puffball part of that Kingdom which seems to be more of a taxonomic mess than the rest of the Kingdom. The tessellation makes it most like Mycenastrum corium although it seems a bit small and the habitat isn't right.  The genus seems to have had quite a few members at various times but most of them have since been renamed or classified to other genera.  Let's see what iNaturalist (iN) has to say.  Thus far the offer is Scleroderma sp - one of those into which Mycenastrum has been moved.

A more standard, but nicely coloured, bracket fungus.

Mitrasacme pilosa.

A very large bank of tall Dampiera stricta.  There were a couple of other patches on the opposite side of the road.

Platysace lanceolata according to the iH atificial intelligence system

Billardiera scandens: it is somehow difficultr to get a camera to focus on these flowers!

A nice contrast with the red Epacris impressa lurking behind the green and yellow stems of a sedge.

Amperea xiphoclada:  these flowers are tiny and very hard to photograph.  The ID came from iN.

An interesting effect with most of the flower parts having fallen off leaving an umbel of umberellas!

A Prasophyllum breaks out of of its sheath,

It was a mini-forest of the them  I have put dots on the 10 in this image, but Frances conted 15 in the colony.

I think this is some form of Cap-orchid.  An expert friend has advised the following is a Thelymitra "just waiting for some rain and sun".  There were about a dozen in the colony,