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:
