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Otari Fungal Foray

Sunday, April 17, 2011 5:47:57 AM

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I attended a "Fungal Foray" today at Otari Native Plant Gardens. The facilitators Geoff and Alison, and a bunch of enthusiastic students, gave us a good fun of afternoon fungal photo-foraging. Unfortunately my camera ran out of battery at early stage, but I manage to take a few interesting shots.

Apparently a good bunch of interesting fungi can be found in the most accessible and most public part of Otari, growing in garden mulch. Others are found on decaying tree branches on forest floor, including a couple of edible ones! I have memorised where those are and intend to go back with fully charged battery in camera, as soon as possible and conditions are right.

I've uploaded the shots of fungi I managed today to the album Seasons Will Pass You By.

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Comments

ersi Sunday, April 17, 2011 5:53:27 AM

Looks yummy. How many did you eat?

Mimis Mum (MM)mimi_s_mum Sunday, April 17, 2011 5:57:16 AM

Originally posted by ersi:

How many did you eat?

None ... yet bigsmile

There were too many eyes for harvesting inside public botanic gardens. p

Deb Plattdebplatt Monday, April 18, 2011 1:39:13 PM

...my camera ran out of battery at early stage

doh Someone needs a backup battery... whistle

Originally posted by mimi_s_mum:

too many eyes for harvesting inside public botanic gardens. p

lol

Off to see your photo album. http://files.myopera.com/debplatt/smiley/smiley_running.gif -

SummerAngel Monday, April 18, 2011 6:24:50 PM

Seasons Will Pass You By...http://files.myopera.com/SummerAngel/Smilies//ph.gif - the name of your photo album.

You take amazing pictures. Who would have guessed that fungi was as beautiful as pictured above? This makes me long for a nature hike, but this is our rainy season, so a hike will have to wait.

Mimis Mum (MM)mimi_s_mum Monday, April 18, 2011 8:45:17 PM

Originally posted by debplatt:

Someone needs a backup battery...

I knew the battery was running low. But I had put the spare in the wrong bag! sad

Originally posted by debplatt:

Off to see your photo album.

Enjoy smile

Mimis Mum (MM)mimi_s_mum Monday, April 18, 2011 8:45:29 PM

Thank you Annette. The album is named after a line from my favourite song, Close to the Edge by Yes.

Originally posted by SummerAngel:

fungi was as beautiful as pictured

Thank you. I enjoyed my outing with the great fungal team lead by Geoff and Alison, who indeed have such eyes. I intend to buy a fungal field guide written by Geoff and plan to go out on a private fungal foray or two later, when ground becomes a little more moist.

arduinna Wednesday, April 20, 2011 8:12:02 PM

pssst I went directly to the pictures ....

Mimis Mum (MM)mimi_s_mum Wednesday, April 20, 2011 8:13:40 PM

Originally posted by arduinna:

I went directly to the pictures ....

I know! lol

SummerAngel Friday, April 22, 2011 10:58:39 AM

Originally posted by mimi_s_mum:

The album is named after a line from my favourite song, Close to the Edge by Yes.


I've heard of Yes, but never that song, so I searched for it on YouTube. I found a really cool Yes - Close To The Edge Live 1973 (complete) video you may enjoy.

Mimis Mum (MM)mimi_s_mum Friday, April 22, 2011 7:15:30 PM

Thank you for the link, Annette. happy

I went to a private fungal foray to Otari yesterday and took a couple of more fungal shots. I've also found a site with detailed NZ fungi information, which I can use to identify names. So I can hopefully put better captions when uploading those pictures. wink

SummerAngel Friday, April 22, 2011 8:29:08 PM

Cool site for identifying fungi you may come across, and if you don't find it there, you have the option of submitting an E mail. http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/ThumbsUp.gif -

Mad Scientist (عادل)qlue Saturday, April 23, 2011 8:10:55 AM

I really must buy a real camera this year. doh.

DHdarkesthour Tuesday, April 26, 2011 12:10:22 AM

Interesting stuff, I like fungi but cannot identify very many

Mimis Mum (MM)mimi_s_mum Tuesday, April 26, 2011 1:17:48 AM

Originally posted by SummerAngel:

Cool site for identifying fungi you may come across

Yes. Very useful site, recommended by Dr Geoff Riley, the main facilitator. smile

Mimis Mum (MM)mimi_s_mum Tuesday, April 26, 2011 1:18:03 AM

Originally posted by qlue:

I really must buy a real camera this year.

yes New models are coming out every year while older ones are still good enough. Shouldn't be too hard to get a reasonable one for casual photography a lot cheaper that it used to.

Mimis Mum (MM)mimi_s_mum Tuesday, April 26, 2011 1:18:15 AM

@Annette & Aadil
Sorry about not replying sooner. I must have used "Mark all as read" button prematurely in last few days.

Mimis Mum (MM)mimi_s_mum Tuesday, April 26, 2011 1:23:50 AM

Hi, DH. How was your trip? Hope you didn't get rained out of your holiday destination. The Wx's been truly shocking.

Originally posted by darkesthour:

Interesting stuff, I like fungi but cannot identify very many

Thank you. I'm also fascinated by fungi but my main interest is the culinary one. p

That fungal foray event at Otari and the Hidden Forest site have been a true eye opener for me, making me want to learn more. It is a shame we can't have fungal foray all year around. But the autumn season is still ongoing. And there are some spring "budding" fungi that look interesting, according to the information at Hidden Forest. So I'll keep an eye out on my walks. smile

Mad Scientist (عادل)qlue Tuesday, April 26, 2011 3:49:37 AM

a dank cellar and some seeding trays could make a good fungal farm. sherlock.

Mimis Mum (MM)mimi_s_mum Tuesday, April 26, 2011 5:08:27 AM

Originally posted by qlue:

a good fungal farm

I'm hoping the grass area around house becomes a natural puffball farm. bigsmile

Getting under the house is a bit of mission with no standing room even for a shortie like me. And I've got a feeling local rodent population may not leave my budding underhouse mushroom trays alone. I could just visualise how then my cat would go storm in, chase the little critters and knock over all trays in the process. cat irked

Mad Scientist (عادل)qlue Tuesday, April 26, 2011 7:10:21 AM

lol. No, that wouldn't do at all. lol.

Mimis Mum (MM)mimi_s_mum Tuesday, April 26, 2011 10:07:14 AM

p

Mimis Mum (MM)mimi_s_mum Tuesday, May 3, 2011 12:52:07 AM

I've just created a new photo album for the fungi and also published a brief post about it. This and other pictures from the Fungal Forey are included, as well as some new ones. Go take a look. cool

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