New Zealand Geographic article on the 2021 foray
This story on the 2021 fungal foray was written by Bill Morris and photographed by Lottie Hedley: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-underground-forest/
This story on the 2021 fungal foray was written by Bill Morris and photographed by Lottie Hedley: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-underground-forest/
Several members of the 2021 stewart island fungal foray to stewart island were interviewd for the TV show 'Seven Sharp'. You can watch this here: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/seven-sharp/clips/out-and-about-with-the-fu...
The rare and endangered Macrocystidia reducta (Fishy Pouch Fungus) smells a bit like rotten fish and looks like a pouch. It is only found on Banks Peninsula in native podocarp forest, listen below for the audio clip, and for more information check out these links:
Green-fingered and threatened plant scientist Dr Peter de Lange from the Department of Conservation on the great bio-mass that grows around us... so, what is a plant?!"
This afternoon the Radio New Zealand National show "This Way Up" had a 31 min feature on NZ fungi and foraying.
Simon Morton (the presenter) spoke to Eugenia Bone, chair of the New York Mycological Society and the author of 'Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms', and spoke to NZ mycologist Geoff Ridley. Listen below: