Last weekend I had a yearning to go on a mushroom/toadstool hunt in the bush. I took my family out for a ramble around a bush track on the Woodville end of the Manawatu Gorge, looking out for autumnal fungi. I was not disappointed!
There were some wonderful red toadstools.
Bright orange fungus:
Tiny ethereal mushrooms (hard to photograph! This one was not much bigger than a pea and I liked the way it was growing upwards towards the light from underneath a log.)
Warty armies of toadstools:
Odd phallic looking ones with speckles:
I don’t know enough about wild mushrooms to know if any of these are edible, so I let them be and just took photographs.
After our walk, we stopped for a simple picnic of pikelets and feijoas.
Back home in the fridge was a package of field mushrooms a friend had picked from her farm. I cooked them in garlic, onions and lots of green herbs, stirred in cream right at the end of cooking and ate it on pasta. Amazing.
Helen Lehndorf 
Not sure about the others, but the red toadstool is toxic. Beautiful pics – especially like the one of the white mushroom rising from the dead leaves. Also, feijoas, yum! We can’t get them here (North Carolina) and it’s one of the foods that I really miss from home. One day …
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I remember missing feijoas when I was in the UK. Sometimes I could find feijoa jam in places which sell ‘ethnic’ foods – it was made in South America, where the feijoa comes from. I don’t know if that helps!
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Love the pic of your skirt juxtaposed next to that wonderful toadstool 🙂
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