Monday Mushroom #59
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| Favolaschia calocera - sharing a rotten twig with some blue-green lichen. |
This is a favourite fungus from my first mushroom season in New Zealand. But the small, bright orange fruiting bodies only arrived in this country about 50 years ago.
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| Favolaschia calocera - growing on a pine cone in a plantation. |
They may be native to Madagascar, where they were first recorded, or their true origin may be somewhere in Asia. Either way, they are firmly established in New Zealand - very common even in the native forests where most foreign fungi cede the field to New Zealand's distincitve native biota.
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