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Smoker’s-lung milkcap – Lactarius turpis | Spores, moulds, and fungi

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Spores, moulds, and fungi. A natural history of mushrooms and other fungi in New Zealand. Larr; The common-basket stinkhorn: Ileodictyon cibarium. A tumble of scarlet pouches. Smoker’s-lung milkcap Lactarius turpis. Walking through the Wellington Botanic Garden today I found smoker’s-lung milkcap [. Growing under silver birch [. Between the Mamaku Way track and Glenmore Rd. Smoker’s-lung milkcap [photo Geoff Ridley]. From the Botanic Garden in April 1979 and from Kelburn Park in May 1980. Enter your comm...

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The scarlet roundhead | Spores, moulds, and fungi

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Spores, moulds, and fungi. A natural history of mushrooms and other fungi in New Zealand. Larr; Dreaming spires and Favolaschia. Scarlet roundhead) was recognised for the first time as being in New Zealand in two books by Marie Taylor. Published in 1981 and 1982. The only illustration of was a watercolour painting in Taylor’s book. These books followed hard on the heels of the publication of photographic guides such as Roger Phillip’s. Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain and Europe. Then, in 2004 ...

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Spores, moulds, and fungi. A natural history of mushrooms and other fungi in New Zealand. Did the spoon turn black? Looking around the internet I came across someone looking for information on whether or not the mushrooms he and his wife had collected were edible. One piece of advice he got was my understanding is as long as they are brown on the underside they are sweet . Combined with other observations this is a useful characteristic. On its own it could be deadly. The Poisonous Plants of New Zealand.

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Mushrooms under silver birch | Spores, moulds, and fungi

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Spores, moulds, and fungi. A natural history of mushrooms and other fungi in New Zealand. Larr; This Way Up. The birch bolete. Or is it? Mushrooms under silver birch. Dianne John sent me some photos of two species of mushrooms under silver birch one of which I had not seen before. European silver birches are a common and prominent tree in the New Zealand urban and rural landscape. The oldest tree recorded by Notable Trees of New Zealand. Leccinum scabrum and Lactarius glyciosmus (Photo Dianne John).

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Greta Stevenson and Marasmius curranii | Spores, moulds, and fungi

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Spores, moulds, and fungi. A natural history of mushrooms and other fungi in New Zealand. Larr; Otari Wilton’s Bush Fungal Foray 2014. Otari-Wilton’s Bush, Sunday 20 April 2014. Greta Stevenson and Marasmius curranii. Greta Stevenson [Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa – C-17974]. Field Guide to Fungi. 1982) which was reprinted after her death as. New Zealand Fungi: an Illustrated Guide. It was described as growing on the bark of dead wood. The ...

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Who is the weeping widow? | Spores, moulds, and fungi

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Spores, moulds, and fungi. A natural history of mushrooms and other fungi in New Zealand. Larr; A tumble of scarlet pouches. Who is the weeping widow? Back in 1971 Egon Horak wrote:. During our collecting trips in New Zealand, we collected on two occasions a species closely related to. 8230; In both cases the fungus grew along roadsides. The unresolved problem is whether the fungus is introduced or indigenous. Then in 1981 Marie Taylor included. My first encounter with. Was in native bush that has been u...

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Otari – Wilton’s Bush Fungal Foray 2013 | Spores, moulds, and fungi

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Spores, moulds, and fungi. A natural history of mushrooms and other fungi in New Zealand. Larr; Some fungi of spring and early summer 2013. The postman rings again. Otari Wilton’s Bush Fungal Foray 2013. You can read more about Otari-Wilton’s Bush from the foray report for 2011. And at the Otari Wilton’s Bush. This last summer has been notable in being dry and followed by a reasonably wet autumn (see The drought has broken. Sp [a parasol] this was in the garden under Nothofagus solandri. Ugly chalkcap]&#...

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Otari-Wilton’s Bush, 19 April 2015 | Spores, moulds, and fungi

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Spores, moulds, and fungi. A natural history of mushrooms and other fungi in New Zealand. Larr; 2015 Fungal Foray, Otari-Wilton’s Bush, 25-26 April 2015. Time to get serious. Otari-Wilton’s Bush, 19 April 2015. Had my first foray to Otari-Wilton’s Bush last Sunday, 19 April 2015. The drought has broken but the rain has been episodic and torrential so not the best to the best conditions for mushrooms. This small mushroom, the garlic shanklet [. Is a perennial find. Growing on the bark of a living totara [.

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The common-basket stinkhorn: Ileodictyon cibarium | Spores, moulds, and fungi

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Spores, moulds, and fungi. A natural history of mushrooms and other fungi in New Zealand. Larr; A pustulent lump. Smoker’s-lung milkcap Lactarius turpis. The common-basket stinkhorn: Ileodictyon cibarium. I was in Hamilton on Wednesday at the Ruakura Research Centre and saw these common-basket stinkhorns growing in the mulched garden directly outside the meeting room. Almost a fairy ring of common-basket stinkhorns [photo Geoff Ridley]. Morphological relationships in stinkhorns [from Mycologist? If you e...

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A tumble of scarlet pouches | Spores, moulds, and fungi

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Spores, moulds, and fungi. A natural history of mushrooms and other fungi in New Zealand. Larr; Smoker’s-lung milkcap Lactarius turpis. Who is the weeping widow? A tumble of scarlet pouches. Walking home this afternoon I saw this group of scarlet pouches [. Early Settles Memorial Lawn [photo Geoff Ridley]. Scarlet pouches (photo Geoff Ridley]. Scarlet pouches (photo Geoff Ridley]. Scarlet pouches (photo Geoff Ridley]. Just to make a statement. The jaffa is made from delectable dark chocolate covered ...