Tag Archives: fungi

Earthstar

Posted on Monday, 16 April 2018 by

I’ve been wanting to see an earthstar ever since I saw photos in a field guide. What a romantic name! And this one was on my property last week during the rain. Earthstars are in the same taxonomic group as … Continue reading →

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Christa’s picks

Posted on Sunday, 25 February 2018 by

Christa is fond of fungi, too, and generously sent me some pics of fungal fruiting bodies. (The last two pics are not fungi but they are fun.) Thanks, Christa! (All photos by Christa Schwoebel.) Location and/or IDs are in the … Continue reading →

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Big Scrub Loop, Nightcap National Park, fungi (part 2)

Posted on Sunday, 22 October 2017 by

Here are my photos of the same walk as in the previous post. These are different fungi to those in the previous post, plus a couple of other things of interest at the end. The rainforest is endlessly fascinating!   … Continue reading →

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Big Scrub Loop, Nightcap National Park, fungi (part 1)

Posted on Saturday, 21 October 2017 by

The other day, after five days of rain, three of us went looking for fungi in the Nightcap National Park, northern New South Wales. I was also on the lookout for slime moulds, but didn’t find any. I thought this … Continue reading →

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Sharpes Beach fungi

Posted on Monday, 19 June 2017 by

The rain continues on and off. Lismorons (and I mean that in an affectionate way) are a bit over it, but ducks, frogs and fungi are loving it. There’s a newish walking/cycling/jogging/dog- and/or child-walking path through the heath on the … Continue reading →

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Big Scrub Landcare fungal foray (Part 2)

Posted on Saturday, 18 March 2017 by

This is the second part of my fungi photos from the Nightcap National Park foray last weekend. Part 1 is here. These beauties … … come from these ‘babies’ …     Non-fungi finds The giant panda snail (Hedleyella falconeri) … Continue reading →

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Big Scrub Landcare fungal foray (part 1)

Posted on Sunday, 12 March 2017 by

Local photographer Steve Axford has recently sprung into the international limelight with his time-lapse videos of fungi, shown on David Attenborough’s “Planet Earth II – Jungles”. And splendid they are, too. Steve started photographing fungi about 10 years ago, and … Continue reading →

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Barker’s Vale fungi

Posted on Wednesday, 8 March 2017 by

Barker’s Vale is about 20 km north of me. Thanks to Brigitte who has let me use her photographs. I’ll not attempt to ID them – this is just a photographic record that they exist at her place. I haven’t … Continue reading →

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Fungi in the forests

Posted on Thursday, 8 September 2016 by

I know very little about fungi except that it is always a delight to see them. The part we see, as you may know, is only the fruiting body. The ‘body’ of the fungus itself is underground. Countrysideinfo explains the … Continue reading →

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Miscellaneous moths and mushrooms

Posted on Tuesday, 12 April 2016 by

Wandering and/or bashing along bush tracks, we often saw life forms of various persuasions. Moths, for example …   … and mushrooms. I took most of the following photos in the Tarkine, a cool temperate rainforest. The others were in … Continue reading →

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