• PHOTO: Hygrocybe, known commonly as waxcaps within 100metres of the Editor’s back gate. (This is a 2020 news story)
Strap yourselves in. We are in for a bumper fungus season.
Ecologist Alison Pouliot, who runs fungus forays and mushroom workshops in the central west and beyond, says the fungi are running riot out there in the forest.
Although the world is in lockdown, the recent rains have unleashed a diverse array of curiosities and the mushrooms have erupted, even in the drought-depleted soils of the western plains . . .
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