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Botanical names | A rant

I have a plant in my garden. Funny that. It’s a trailing ground over with cute little white flowers that is fast growing and tough. I got it from Bunnings years ago and lost it label. I knew I knew…

Photographing fully grown humans

Since I started putting together a little studio in the front room of my house I have really only had small people to use as my subjects. The novelty has started to wear off for them though, so unless they…

Leucocoprinus ‘white’

Leucocoprinus ‘white’ Gilled Fungi Habitat and Substrate: . Description: All white with a little bit of a scaley cap. Distinct annulus which moves!

Lycoperdon perlatum

Lycoperdon perlatum Puffball fungi Habitat and Substrate: Grows in groups on soil, either little groups or big ones. Description: Starts out little and looks quite spiny, then it gets bigger and the spines wear away and it gets a little hole in…

Mycena ‘tiny, all-white’

Mycena ‘tiny, all-white’ Habitat and Substrate: Grows on wood Description: Tiny little all white Mycena sp. with a cap about 5mm across. Distinct gills, all of it almost translucent. Stipe can be up to 8mm long and it has a strong bleach…

Urnula campylospora

Urnula campylospora Habitat and Substrate: Found on soft rotten wood and sometimes soil. Not usually twigs Description: The biggest of all the black cup fungi, it can get up to 6cm in diameter. The outer surface is black and the inner…

Macrolepiota clelandii

Macrolepiota clelandii Habitat and Substrate: Grows from the soil Description: These photos were taken by Geoff and I over a period of about a week. We found them when they were small and Geoff went back to check on them, so…

Postia punctata

Postia punctata Habitat and Substrate: Found on large logs Description: Creamy brown fruitbodies, white underside, forming a bit of a rosette shape. When young can just look more blobby than rosettey. Can get to about 20cm in diameter. Oozes water droplets. Unmistakable really.

Lachnum lachnoderma

Lachnum lachnoderma Habitat and Substrate: Found on little bits of wood, splinters or small branches and twigs. Description: Cute little cups up to about 3mm in diameter. They are a furry kind of white on the outside and a nice yellow…