DSC_1962 Horse hair fungus (Mycena sp.) looking like a tangled mass of white threads in the leaf litter, these are the pseudostipes (false stipes) of a Mycena fungus which have persisted long after the fruit bodies have vanished and decayed. Lake Brunner, Westland *
11008-06303 Blue-eyed helmet (Mycena interrupta) dark blue centre fading to almost white at margin which gives a concentric ring effect. Found on fallen timber in all types of native and exotic forest. Easy to identify because of its striking blue 'eye'. Kaimai Range *
11008-05401 Flabby poreconch (Favolaschia pustulosa) in mixed broadleaf-conifer forests on dead and fallen trees. Has a preference for tawa and is sometimes found growing with Orange poreconch. Kaimai Range *
