tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19288377.post4984798661660182712..comments2024-03-09T18:27:46.282+11:00Comments on The Nature of Robertson: Fungal Queen of KangaloonDenis Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10031115992910569116noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19288377.post-36458085914894685842007-06-15T18:34:00.000+10:002007-06-15T18:34:00.000+10:00Lucy has confirmed that she is content with this p...Lucy has confirmed that she is content with this posting. <BR/><BR/>Mind you, she is glad that I have not published some of the other conversations we have had over the years. Fair enough.<BR/><BR/>I am a marvel of discretion - sometimes. <B>:-))</B><BR/><BR/>DenisDenis Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10031115992910569116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19288377.post-86773610477544690682007-06-15T09:29:00.000+10:002007-06-15T09:29:00.000+10:00Thanks Gaye.These are "iconic" fungi. Robertson ha...Thanks Gaye.<BR/>These are "iconic" fungi. Robertson has many huge old Radiata Pines growing here - they were much beloved of the early settlers who realised the need for wind breaks (once they had cleared the natural forest). So they planted pines. They were a very popular tree in late Victorian era, when Robertson was being settled.<BR/>Many are now huge trees, with massive trunks 10 feet or more, in diameter.<BR/>Anyway the Fly Agarics love them, and thrive in our wet soil, in the late summer and early autumn.<BR/>Even though they are really common, people still love to see them, and as one photo on the linked page shows, photographers go nuts for them, for they are so pretty. As I say, they are common, but I always take photos of them, every season.<BR/><BR/>On the Fungimap link, this image is not the first one (they are in alphabetical order), but its file number is 001. That tells you something. It was the first species they decided to load!<BR/>Glad you enjoyed the post. It was intended as tongue in cheek, but I was unsure that people would get the joke. Obviously you did.<BR/>And Kangaloon is such a good name to play with, anyway.<BR/><BR/>Cheers<BR/><BR/>DenisDenis Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10031115992910569116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19288377.post-19606714363925336002007-06-15T07:57:00.000+10:002007-06-15T07:57:00.000+10:00Chuckle chuckle - an entertaining read at this chi...Chuckle chuckle - an entertaining read at this chilly hour, and I will say that I have never seen a fly agaric anywhere near the size of your largest there, neither have I seen such a tightly packed group.<BR/><BR/>My first sighting of the beautiful fly agaric was during the first and only time I have travelled through the Southern Highlands many years ago. <BR/><BR/>I was SO excited, and thought I must surely be the only person in Australia to see these beauties. It was a single fungus growing under a pine by a main road (I must have looked an awful spectacle down on all fours photographing it).<BR/><BR/>Since then, the only place I have seen them is in the New England region of NSW in the pine plantations of Hanging Rock. We go up there once a year about April or May to go fungus hunting for photographic and observation purposes, which I always enjoy.<BR/><BR/>GayeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com