I use this blog to record the fungi walks I lead as each year as part of the Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush Trust’s public guided walks. Simply for logistically reasons they are limited on the area within a a few hundred meters of the Information Centre our starting point. I tell myself each year I need to go to the other side of the valley and record what I see there. Well last year I did but never blogged it. So here is what I saw.
The Waterfall track.
Volvopluteus gloiocephalus growing on mulch in the Fernery, Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush. https://inaturalist.nz/observations/161302138
Leratiomyces ceres growing on mulch in the Fernery, Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush. https://inaturalist.nz/observations/159966567
Psathyrella sp. growing on mulch in the Fernery, Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush. https://inaturalist.nz/observations/159967807
Leratiomyces erythrocephalus growing on mulch in the Fernery, Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush. https://inaturalist.nz/observations/159968154
Clitocybe nebularis growing in leaf litter, in broadleaf / podocarp forest, Waterfall track just below the Fernery, Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush. https://inaturalist.nz/observations/159968517
Macrolepiota clellandii growing in leaf litter, in broadleaf / podocarp forest, Waterfall track just below the Fernery, Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush. https://inaturalist.nz/observations/159968978
Ganoderma sp. growing on the end of a fall tree trunk, in broadleaf / podocarp forest, on the Circular track near where it intersects with the Waterfall track, Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush. https://inaturalist.nz/observations/159969670
Mycena sp. growing on fallen dead wood, , in broadleaf / podocarp forest, near beginning of the Red track, Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush. https://inaturalist.nz/observations/159970593
Armillaria novae-zelandiae growing on fallen dead wood, in broadleaf / podocarp forest, the Red track, Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush. https://inaturalist.nz/observations/159970979
When scrabbling around in the litter near the base of a tree fern I saw a face staring back at me! The skull of a ruru (Ninox novaeseelandiae)
Coprinellus aff. disseminatus on fallen dead wood, in broadleaf / podocarp forest, the Red track, Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush. https://inaturalist.nz/observations/159971341
Clitocybe nebularis growing in leaf litter, in broadleaf / podocarp forest, the Red track, Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush. https://inaturalist.nz/observations/159971862
Favolaschia claudopus growing on stump, in broadleaf / podocarp forest, the Red track, Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush. https://inaturalist.nz/observations/159972117
Galerina patagonica growing on fallen dead wood, in broadleaf / podocarp forest, Red track, Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush. https://inaturalist.nz/observations/159972415
Lycoperdon sp. growing in leaf litter, in broadleaf / podocarp forest, the Red track, Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush. https://inaturalist.nz/observations/159972776
Cyclocybe parasitica growing from a living tawa (Beilschmiedia tawa), in broadleaf / podocarp forest, Red track, Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush. https://inaturalist.nz/observations/159973060
Spores, moulds, and fungi 