Single specimen growing in dense NZ native forest. Wow.
Mount Thomas bush walk.
The purple glow is UV lighting.
Totally open to removing this record if suggested too. Not sure if it belongs here.
There were two of these on a dead log. Had a narrow attachment, pores beneath
I love photographing graphids even though I can't ID them!
3.6 m DW female, 74 m depth, SST 22.6 Celsius
Joint Conservation International, Tindale Marine Research Charitable Trust and DOC oceanic manta satellite tagging expedition.
underwater images courtesy of Irene Middleton
Noted on fallen semi-decorticated branch lying on floor of waiwaka (Syzygium maire) / pukatea (Laurelia novae-zelandiae) swamp forest. Fruiting body upper surface dark brown with dark flecking, coriaceous and pliant, underside white, stipe brown, firmly flexible.
Polyporus dictyopus?
The best place to see the Cape Barron now is from the track on the western side of the wetland by the houses.
Look across in to the paddocks from there.
This large bracket fungus was seen on a fallen tree trunk in mixed beech/podocarp forest.
Unfortunately I'm not able to confirm whether the tree species or whether it was alive or dead, however the best matching description seems to be Laetiporus, however I'd like confirmation or correction from mycologists.
Small red saprotrophic plant found in wet eucalypt forest dominated by Eucalyptus obliqua, Acacia melanoxylon, Pomaderris apetala, Comprosma quadrifida, Olearia argophylla and Dicksonia antarctica.
Gregarious and scattered stalked sporangia, 1.5-1.8 mm tall. Sporotheca globose to sub-globose, umbilicate at the base where the stalk attaches, 1.1-1.6 mm diameter. Stalk cylindrical, 0.3 mm long x 0.3 mm wide. Peridium membranous, iridescent with pink, green and golden reflections; dehiscence irregular. Capillitium long, white when fresh becoming beige.
Collected from very severely decayed (soil-like) eucalypt stump.
Terana caerulea - Cobalt Crust ?
Observed on two adjacent Astelias, approx. 2 metres apart.
Notice third photo, encrustation appears "crumb-like" as if it fell onto the leaf from a tree above.
Growing on woodchips under Veronica cultivars. Adjacent to Betula pendula; reaction to ammonia reddish orange, not green; cap dry, not slimy; colours, a dull reddish-brown; spore print pale yellowish, not greenish; spores ovoid.
Crowded stalked sporangia 1.5 mm total height. Peridial net of strong ribs from the base to the apex of the sporothecae.
On severely decayed Banskia marginata.
Native bush area. Growing out of something (?insect/larva)buried in the leaf mold/dirt.
spores 5-7 angled, gill edge dark blue, cap umbilicate. CC clavate 30 x 14, spores 10 x 6um.
Material sequenced. This isn't quite A. drummondii, described from Western Australia, but close. It is not A. pekeoides, even though it looks like it. The obvious difference is the presence of veil fragments on the cap, which are absent in A. pekeoides. However, they tend to get washed off. Then the only way to differentiate the species is to look at the cheilocystidia microscopically. In this species they are distinct (second image) and in A. pekeoides they are absent, with just a band of sterile hyphae on the gill edge.
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/5058072
On a log in mixed broadleaf-podocarp forest. Undersurface was white.
Found under a small log in a paddock. Rather small, body less than 5 mm.
Wow! I had always photographed these as washups but this one was out in the G3 swimming along. Chasing it for photos I got a few while it was under the water, and this shows details that are not seen when washed up.
Then it surfaced - those are the last photos which are not good but show how it changes its shape. Then it decided to turn and come towards me. The only skin I had exposed is between my hood and mask, but not wanting to get a sting on the face I made a strategic withdrawal, and live to tell this story :)
Is this the unnamed Russula known as R. "macnabbiana"?
Very common under rawirinui (Kunzea robusta) and pines (Pinus pinaster).
P.J. de Lange 14162 & T.J.P. de Lange, PDD
Growing beneath a small log lying in a creek bed. Up to 9 mm across.
Taken at 200 m depth on line by fisher targetting oil fish (Ruvettus pretiosus), gutted carcass landed for meat and fins.
Images courtesy of Viliamu Iese and NZ Aid.
Small juvenile about 55-60 cm TL observed from the Devonport Ferry Terminal. Associated with kahawai, white-fronted terns and red-billed gulls that were actively feeding on small bait fish (?juv. Aldrichetta forsteri).
2.5 m juvenile male white shark tagged and released as part of a collaborative project between Conservation International, the New Zealand Department of Conservation and the Tindale Marine Research Charitable Trust.
The tag is a Wildlife Computers SPLASH10-321A. Oceanmax donated the tag's Propspeed coating.
The first and last three images are courtesy of Scott Tindale.
Small insect larva (?), 4 mm in length, found on my clothing after being in native forest.
Yellow, powdery. Not sure what the plant is so included photos of plants.
Growing on a small branch on the ground in beech forest. Spongy texture, 4-5 pores per mm.
on soil and small bits of wood. Stem tissue dextrinoid, with capitate caulocystidia, spores inamyloid, comma-shaped 8x 4um, cap with gloeocystidia to 25um long. G. gracilis is based on single specimen on Nothofagus wood. This collections seems to have more gills and a slightly umbilicate cap and on soil with wood, but is consistent with this taxon - until somebody shows otherwise.
Lots of Shags and courting mating behavior at the Horseshoe Lake colony today.
Also some youngsters.
Striking Shiny black. Longitudinal stripe on surface. 5-6cm.
Inside a wet log with lots to feed on.
Pink, found at the bottom of a pile of various logs in the Richmond community garden in the natives area. Arcyria?
Velella 25mm
Rare here. Quite a few bluebottles, one or two by the wind sailors.