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"When COVID forced Melburnians to isolate during large parts of 2020 and 2021,
many took the opportunity to walk around parks, creeks or remnant bush.
In your walks, you may have noticed the wonderful and diverse range of fungal
fruiting bodies on display. Victoria’s display of puff balls, bracket fungi and
fairy rings has been nothing short of splendid.
The fun’s not over, either. This year has been a particularly good one for
fungus too, and here’s why. As you may recall, the harsh 2019-20 summer dried
our soils, stressed much of our vegetation and led to major bushfires. In 2021,
this switched abruptly to one of the wettest starts to a year on record in many
places, courtesy of the La Niña climate pattern.
With the rains, the weather became ideal for fungal reproduction. We had warm,
very moist soils and lovely warm and sunny autumnal days, perfect for fungi to
send up their reproductive structures (you might know these as mushrooms and
toadstools) and spread their spores. Conditions this good may not occur again
for years so seize the opportunity to see them."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
