Ada Tree and more fungi  

Posted by Feral Beast in , ,

Hello.

Here's some more pic's from the fungi trip.


Here's a pic of some bracket fungi.
I brought one home, that had fallen off a tree, that is as big as a dinner plate.











This is pagoda fungi 'coz it grows like the top of pagodas.








Heres one thats called coral fungi.
Tom, the fungi expert who was our guide for the trip, said he hasn't seen one this big for more than 10 years.









I also saw a tree that is called the Ada Tree and it's over 400 years old.
It's so big it's huge even though half of it was blown off in a rain storm, but it has grown over it and all you can see is a line down the tree.







It took us two hours to drive up there, but the road was blocked where we had to walk up the road to the track, so we had to walk 6km's to get to the Ada Tree, which took another two hours. The reason why it took so long is because there were fungi everywhere we looked but once we got to the Ada Tree and we had lunch, walking back took us only25 minutes, that's how much fungi we stopped to look at on the way!

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4 comments

JahTeh  

You've inspired me to go out and photograph the toadstools around my garden. They're growing around the stumps of trees I've had to cut down which pleases me as it means that underground they're feeding on the decaying wood and I won't have to pay to have them drilled out. (tree stumps that is)

May 8, 2008 at 7:18 PM
Hilary  

Look Feral, I've found a way I can comment on your blog again. Still can't comment on the most recent post, but never mind. I have a little cabin I stay in sometimes not all that far from the Ada tree but have never got around to going and seeing it, so you have inspired me. I went hiking along one of the tramway tracks in that area, which are the tracks where horses used to pull logging carts up and down the mountains with the help of cables. So the tracks go straight up and down the mountains instead of around. You can walk up one to get to the Ada tree, but it's really steep.

May 9, 2008 at 11:02 AM
Anonymous  

Never heard of the Ada tree FB. I just had a search on the net and here is a camera panoramic view around and of the tree. I must visit the Ada tree one day.
http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/forestry/panoramas/adatree/adatree.htm

May 9, 2008 at 11:45 AM
Feral Beast  

I feel happy that I have inspired you, Jahteh.

You'll love it Hilary.

You should, I bet you'll love it.

May 10, 2008 at 5:08 PM

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