Olle Pettersson, my photographer friend from Sweden, shared some of his mushroom images this week and I was impressed with not only the beauty of the mushrooms, but also the size of them. I thought to myself that I didn't remember seeing any really large mushrooms here in the Amazon. Then suddenly, I remembered these bracket fungi we found in the Flona last year, only a few miles from Bosque Santa Lucia. Olle was on one of these tours, so I suspect he has photographs of the same giants. That's Haken, the Swedish tour leader, up there on top of a fungus. He's getting some support from friends down below but it wasn't necessary. These bracket fungi, sometimes called shelve fungi, were strong enough to take on people heavier than Haken.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Fungi VI
Olle Pettersson, my photographer friend from Sweden, shared some of his mushroom images this week and I was impressed with not only the beauty of the mushrooms, but also the size of them. I thought to myself that I didn't remember seeing any really large mushrooms here in the Amazon. Then suddenly, I remembered these bracket fungi we found in the Flona last year, only a few miles from Bosque Santa Lucia. Olle was on one of these tours, so I suspect he has photographs of the same giants. That's Haken, the Swedish tour leader, up there on top of a fungus. He's getting some support from friends down below but it wasn't necessary. These bracket fungi, sometimes called shelve fungi, were strong enough to take on people heavier than Haken.
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Must have been the largest mushrooms I have seen. Or perhaps fungi is a better word. However, big and interesting!
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