Thursday, September 20, 2012

Sea Shroom

I saw some mushrooms yesterday that I have never seen before. They'd burst out of a sand track above the beach. Freak fungi? Maybe they've been doing it for millennia. I always thought that fungi thrived on organic matter but the sand these optimistic folk sprung from is burned in a crucible of salty onshore winds, seasonal bush fires and little rain.



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  1. Tom StephensonSeptember 21, 2012 at 3:20 AM

    Salt tolerant fungi? Amazing. You have your very own Perigord truffles down there too. Train up a pig?

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    1. Tom StephensonSeptember 21, 2012 at 3:21 AM

      Hang on... the sand around the stems looks very disturbed...

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    2. sarah toaSeptember 21, 2012 at 9:59 AM

      I think they use dogs here, Tom.
      They are quite amazing aren't they? It was a nice surprise to find them, pure sand, little or no organic matter. There were three, that I saw. The disturbance around the base makes me think they literally burst out overnight.

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