New Zealand Fungi and Lichens

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 *

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