Tasmania's colourful fungi are putting on a show only in the state's dampest corners after a dry summer and autumn. A fungi enthusiast shares some species to look for when the conditions are right.
Tasmania's fungi season off to slow start, but when rain comes here are some species to look out forHunting for Tasmania's weird and wonderful fungi is off to a slow start this season due to the dry weather conditions.
Fungi enthusiast Helen Robertson said there was still time for the fungi to flush if decent rainfalls hit the state."Then wait a week and then go and have a look.Dr Robertson is a retired zoologist who runs a bed and breakfast on her property at Rocky Cape on the state's north west. "I googled 'bright purple fungi Tasmania', as you do, and thinking surely it must be something amazingly different that no-one's ever seen before because I haven't seen it before," she said.She joined a fungi group on social media and befriended nearby fungi fancier Pat Harrison.
"It's an introduced species, but they're awfully bright, awfully pretty, very photogenic, and people will find them." "But there are so many other sorts of Mycena as well, from little tiny thin white ones to brown ones to pinky-coloured ones, reddish-coloured ones."
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