emblatame (Ron)
FUNGI from Cape Tribulation Rainforests - Australia - A Series
UPDATE: This is a Craterellus species but may not be listed.
This is going to be a series of FUNGI I photographed at Cape Tribulation in far north Queensland in February 2007, for 3 days. Cape Tribulation, 150/200 km north of Cairns, is pristine rainforest and freshwater and mangrove swamps. Rainfall in 2006 was way above average at 300 inches (7.5 metres). It was not easy getting these photos because I was often down in the wet and damp and eaten by mosquitoes, bitten by angry black ants, and totally drenched through because of high temperatures and humidity. Nevertheless I am happy with some I have taken and will share these with you over a period of time. I will start with these today and more will follow:-
Mycology is an interesting subject and it was only 2 months ago I began to get interested in it mainly because of the macros I was seeing on Flickr. You people who live in England, France, Germany and the USA are fortunate because a lot of work has been done on your fungi and identification resources are available to you. In Australia this is not so. No Australian Government gives any money for fungi research and identification, even though an Australian scientist discovered the fungi that led to penicillin being produced (Florey). It is estimated that Australia has around 250 000 fungi in all the fungi families, but no more than 5 to 10% have been properly classified and identified, and most of that is in the State of Victoria (Capital Melbourne) but that is 3000 km south of me.
Because I am so new at this, and have scant resources, then I am going to be hopeless at providing any names for you. I apologise for that so don’t be mad at me. Hope you like these. A few of mine (not too many) will have a bit of blurring because light in the rainforest is not good especially when the sky is overcast which it often was.
I felt like trying to eat this one to see what would happen. Actually I would not be game to try any fungi. These were quite fleshy.
FUNGI from Cape Tribulation Rainforests - Australia - A Series
UPDATE: This is a Craterellus species but may not be listed.
This is going to be a series of FUNGI I photographed at Cape Tribulation in far north Queensland in February 2007, for 3 days. Cape Tribulation, 150/200 km north of Cairns, is pristine rainforest and freshwater and mangrove swamps. Rainfall in 2006 was way above average at 300 inches (7.5 metres). It was not easy getting these photos because I was often down in the wet and damp and eaten by mosquitoes, bitten by angry black ants, and totally drenched through because of high temperatures and humidity. Nevertheless I am happy with some I have taken and will share these with you over a period of time. I will start with these today and more will follow:-
Mycology is an interesting subject and it was only 2 months ago I began to get interested in it mainly because of the macros I was seeing on Flickr. You people who live in England, France, Germany and the USA are fortunate because a lot of work has been done on your fungi and identification resources are available to you. In Australia this is not so. No Australian Government gives any money for fungi research and identification, even though an Australian scientist discovered the fungi that led to penicillin being produced (Florey). It is estimated that Australia has around 250 000 fungi in all the fungi families, but no more than 5 to 10% have been properly classified and identified, and most of that is in the State of Victoria (Capital Melbourne) but that is 3000 km south of me.
Because I am so new at this, and have scant resources, then I am going to be hopeless at providing any names for you. I apologise for that so don’t be mad at me. Hope you like these. A few of mine (not too many) will have a bit of blurring because light in the rainforest is not good especially when the sky is overcast which it often was.
I felt like trying to eat this one to see what would happen. Actually I would not be game to try any fungi. These were quite fleshy.