From the Devilbend Foundation …
Devilbend Foundation May Newsletter
Autumn is upon us and the colour of the bush canopy doesn’t change much – but look at the forest floor. The fungi are out. As the soil becomes damper and begins to cool, up they pop. Fungi seem to be called mushrooms nowadays; however, when I was young they were called toadstools, or the shortened name was toady. Mushrooms were the edible fungus that grew in cow and horse paddocks. Those that grew in the bush were avoided. Fungi season nowadays sees people with buckets or bags laden with the brown pine forest fungi at Devilbend and I wonder if in time they will be gone because they don’t have time to spread their spores for future populations. The white spotted red fungi (Fly Agaric) that elves live in and grow in the pine forest are poisonous and are invasive. Also invasive is the Orange Pore Fungus, which is quite small and grows on decaying wood. Fungi are good to photograph as they don’t fly away or blow in the wind.
