All of a sudden autumn fungi season 2026 has come and gone.

This year resulted in some great finds. I’ve already posted about the mycelium which I acquainted myself with during a couple of trips to the Styx and Tarkine in particular. This post is about some of those colourful autumn denizens of the Tasmanian rainforest that have captivated me all these years 🙂

First up – everyone’s favourite – the Pixies parasol, or Mycena interrupta, captured up in the Tarkine.

Another blue one, one of the Entoloma species and very possibly Entoloma panniculus. Also from the Tarkine. Quite a striking shade of blue!

The brown-headed pins, or Vibrissea dura, is one I’ve seen/shot many times over the years but hadn’t got round to identifying. It often grows in big groups like this and is very photogenic. The red myrtle beech leaf was a nice touch too…

Hericium coralloides, also known as a coral tooth fungi is reasonably common and always very photogenic. The brilliant whites here really stood out in the mossy green Tarkine rainforest.

Anyone who has joined one of my autumn fungi photography workshops would know I tend to advocate the slow and steady approach to a photo. That is, stopping and taking the time to set up tripods and make a nice composition. That’s fine when the fungi in question isn’t 3-4 metres off the ground up a tree trunk! To capture this Austral dripping bonnet (above) I stood on tippy-toes, arms fully outstretched, and hoped my auto-focus would do a good enough job. It did 🙂

As is so often the case, when photographing fungi, very often you also end up capturing tiny little fungi bugs, living out their lives where the fungi rule the world and their small patch of forest is their whole universe. For the record this fungi is the toothed jelly fungus, or Pseudohydnum gelatinosum to close friends. I don’t know what name the little red fungi bug goes by!

All of these shots are from the Tarkine. For those interested in exploring the world of fungi more, I run a 7 day Tarkine trip each autumn (2027 is fully booked, new dates TBA shortly) and also present a 3 day fungi photography event at Corinna in late May too.

More fungi season 2026 shots from other parts of the state to come shortly…