Spring!! Glorious now with just the right amount of rain and sunshine. Bush Regeneration on Ash Island (check out the Kooragang Wetland Rehabilitation Project website) has been weeding Ehrharta sp. (African veldtgrass) and replacing it with the native Microlaena stipoides (Weeping grass). Quite a number of fungi along the Rainforest Walk from the old silos. At the foot of the Plum Pine Podocarpus elatus we found a small group of Xerula australis with surprise surprise!! a largish skink climbing the stems and eating chunks off the rim of the cap!! A "David Attenborough" moment which kept us enthralled for the ten minutes the little lizard gorged. The bracket fungi look dramatic in the picture on a tree was only about 30cm diameter. Don't know which species is pictured on the ruler - always measure the cap and stem and then try to get a spore pattern by standing the trimmed cap on a half and half black/white piece of paper - but the elongated hexagons of the pores are beautiful.
Posts
