Our family love New Zealands large variety of mushrooms, both edible and toxic. We love heading out mushroom hunting amongst damp scrub and forest walkways, up hills and along the hedgerows of the rural countryside. We take spore prints to help us identify them. Here are some snaps of some of the Boletus, the Prince and the Tree Oyster.
From Theo, aged 6 years old, Hawkes Bay
Written by Stanley (age 7) from North Canterbury At night[...]
Yummy sugar water! Photo: Sally Leggett In winter birds find it hard to find enough food[...]
Mum letting the skink escape back to its home! One sunny Sunday mum went outside, there was a skink!![...]
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