The Angel Tandem – Adventures on the wrong side of 60

Life's little detours

Posted on 24/02/201723/02/2017 by Cliff Mail

Moss and Fungi

The weather held, in spite of the forecast for rain, and taking advantage of this mini drought we again headed off on a trail. This one was all flat and through LOTR country. When we got bored with looking for characters out of the movie we started noticing the vast array of mosses and fungi that inhabited this rather unusual landscape. The pictures tell the rest of this story.

dscf9745 — It was LOTR country: The Waiau River, AKA Anduin River

fullsizeoutput_538c — Tree moss

fullsizeoutput_536a — Progressive tree moss

fullsizeoutput_538a — Bog moss – multiple options

fullsizeoutput_5389 — Carnivorous moss (yes it eats little bugs – including pesky sandflies)

fullsizeoutput_5386 — Moss as far as the eye can see

fullsizeoutput_5383 — Fraggle Rock moss

fullsizeoutput_537d — Moss & strange looking fungi

fullsizeoutput_537e — A trifecta: fungi – moss – beech seedlings

fullsizeoutput_5381 — Common old tree hugging fungi

fullsizeoutput_537a — These little fellows were very hard to spot

fullsizeoutput_5377 — More helmet type fungi

fullsizeoutput_5376 — No they were not potato crisps that I had dropped but wafer thin fungi

fullsizeoutput_5372 — black fungi

fullsizeoutput_5371 — A toadstool

fullsizeoutput_536f — I give up trying to put names to all of these

fullsizeoutput_536c — Colourful fungi

fullsizeoutput_536b — Well the moss is in the background but the fantail did offer an unusually long pose

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Wendy Fitzpatrick says:

24/02/2017 at 8:46 PM

I never knew moss could be so interesting and varied. Fabulous.

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1. Cliff & Ruth Mail says:
  
  24/02/2017 at 8:49 PM
  
  Neither did we until we started looking a like harder. it was initially hard to see the moss from the moss.
  
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