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Forest Mushrooms
Forest Mushrooms include the the popular saffron milk cap (lactarius deliciosus) which is a bright orange colour with distinctive darkening rings, with reddish-pink gills (the underside) and the boletus portentosus or slippery jack, which is dark brown on top with bright yellow spongey gills. The spores originally came from Europe when pine seedlings were transported here for planting. Mushrooms like these can be found in the pine forests across south eastern Australia and most National Park and State Forest rangers are able to give you good advice as to where. The State-owned radiata pine forests are home to masses of wood mushrooms.
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