Close up part 2

Have you looked closely at the 'coloured' stuff on tree trunks? I didn't take much notice until earlier this year when a friend, and expert in such matters, started talking about them. Out came the books and Google search engine and I dipped my toes into the wonderful world of lichens, mosses and liverworts. Another knowledgeable soul, Clive, has photographed a wide range of these, and more, on his fab website http://hiddenforest.co.nz/lichens/index.htm - click on a topic at the top left, then explore the photos by clicking on a family underneath the Photographs heading, then on one of the photos to expand the genus. Clive is also a NatureWatcher - see his observations at http://naturewatch.org.nz/observations/myxonz

Here's what I found yesterday - am guessing at identifications!

?Flat foliose lichen with spore cups at the bottom of photo

?Fruticose lichen with spore cups

Zoom out of above

Lichen mixture; foliose lichen on right

?Orange crustose lichen on rimu trunk

There are still a number of fungi around...

A wee community of pale blue/green gill fungi

Close up of above - there is a jelly-stemmed helmet fungi in my
identification book which looks similar

Punga with yellow/orange fungi growing in a patch

Close up of above ?slime mould??

A tiny pink gill fungi growing on a huge rimu trunk

A small white gill fungus with thin transparent stem - the top was
the size of one of those coloured dressmaking pins

And finally from the very small to somewhat larger. This magnificent miro is on the boundary track and the centipede was on a fallen fruit that had rotted out.