DSC_0578 Velvet Foot Mushroom (Flammulina velutipes) a large orange mushroom typically found growing on tree stumps, logs, or tree bases. It is most common in moist, lowland wooded areas near rivers. Some subspecies of this mushroom contain the neurotoxic oligoisoprenoid gymnopilin. Woodhaugh, Dunedin *
11008-12707 Common bird's nest fungus (Crucibulum laeve) small flared smooth yellow-brown cup containing whitish, flattened 'flying saucer' spore masses (the 'eggs' or peridioles). This group of fungi have a specialised method of spore dispersal. A droplet of water falls into the cup and splashes the spore masses out onto the surrounding vegetation. Omokoroa *
DSC_2629 Common bird's nest fungus (Crucibulum laeve) small flared smooth yellow-brown cup containing whitish, flattened 'flying saucer' spore masses (the 'eggs' or peridioles). This group of fungi have a specialised method of spore dispersal. A droplet of water falls into the cup and splashes the spore masses out onto the surrounding vegetation. Leith Saddle *
