Autumn colours

Good rainfall this autumn has produced a flush of fungi, displaying a wide variety of colours and forms. Many of these fungi are saprotrophs, gaining their nutrition from dead wood - either in the form of killed trees or wood buried in the soil. We have an ample supply of these resources since the January 2020 fire!

The flowering bonanza of spring and summer has passed. But there is still plenty of colour in the forest – provided by a range of autumn flowering plants, insects and birds.

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