11008-17805 Beech strawberry (Cyttaria gunnii) bright yellow mature fruit bodies. A parasitic fungus appearing on southern beech trees in spring as the new season leaf buds begin to swell. They arise from woody galls on the living wood of beech trees. Cyttaria occur in New Zealand (3 spp), Tasmania & SE Australia (2 spp), and southern Chile & Argentina (6 spp). Nelson Lakes *
DSC_4623 Beech strawberry (Cyttaria nigra) charateristic large globose galls on silver beech. Cyttaria is a parasitic fungus appearing on southern beech trees in spring as the new season leaf buds begin to swell. The fruit bodies arise from these woody galls on the living wood of beech trees. Cyttaria occur in New Zealand (3 spp), Tasmania & SE Australia (2 spp), and southern Chile & Argentina (6 spp). Waiakaia River *
DSC_6242 Ochre Jelly Club, or 'Jelly baby' (Leotia lubrica) on soil and in litter and among mosses on the ground beneath a variety of forest types - this one in beech forest. April to June. Boyle River *
