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Chocolate Button Woodtuft


Chocolate Button Woodtuft
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Copyright: Steve Reekie (LordPotty) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1449 W: 146 N: 3764] (12035)
Genre: Fungi
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-02-10
Categories: Rain Forest
Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ5
Exposure: f/2.8, 1/50 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): New Zealand Fungi, Fungi of New Zealand [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2007-07-26 16:58
Viewed: 813
Points: 16
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Chocolate Button Woodtuft
(Hypholoma brunnem)

Cap:20-50mm convex, flattening with age, dry, dark chocolate brown, decorated with concentric rings of small light brown/yellow patches of membraneous to fibrous patches.

Gills: Adnate, reddish brown with an olive green tinge, becoming dark brown as spores mature.

Stem: 25-60mm high, 4-8mm diameter, cylindrical, yellow brown at top and remainder reddish brown.

Ring: Absent

Flesh: Yellow brown.

Spore print: Black

Habitat: Fallen logs and branches, leaf litter, in all forest types.

Fruiting season: Mainly inautumn but also after spells of warm rain.

This attractive fungi is often found growing in the same areas as species of Armillaria.
They are very common in the beech forest near Runanga, where they occur alongside Armillaria nova-zelandiae

I took this shot from straight above just to give the best view of the decorated cap.
Hope you like it

Cheers, Steve
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To extramundi: minitripodLordPotty 1 07-28 15:29
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Hi Steve,
nice combination of vivid colors. Details, sharpness and composition very well. Interesting but nice capture. good notes. TFS
well done
Ahmet

Hi Steve,
What a texture!
This is an unknown fungi specie to me, specially with that name!
It's so curious the white decoration cap, it has the appearance like a dessert or something like this.
Despite the darkness of the image, the subject can be seen with enough of details.
Well done and thanks for share it.
My best regards,
JM

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  • Ken52 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 640 W: 98 N: 1241] (4189)
  • [2007-07-26 18:30]

Interesting post. Masterful job on exposure of this difficult subject in low light. Nice details. Thanks for bringing us a bit of the rain forest.

Hi Steve,
A beautiful fungi. You have captured it very well. Fine focus and details. Yes the top view looks good to me. Thanks a lot for sharing.

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  • joey Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2001 W: 226 N: 6845] (24727)
  • [2007-07-27 3:01]

Hi Steve,
what an unusual fungi.
Sharp with great detail.
A great POV.
Well done,
Joe

With this brown colours the fibrous texture usual in Hypholomas are very well seen. You got a nice exposure of the moody light in the deep forest. Good use of short DOF too.
I still think that you would get an incredible advantage of a minitripod in your fungui shots ;)
Regards, Felipe.

I am finding myself more and more intrigued with the fungi world...and thanks...! am learning every day. This is an interesting fungi with a good notation. Yes it is indeed an attractive specimen.

Bob

Hi Steve
Wonderful picture,Detail,composition and sharpness are excellent.Good POV.Nice colour and texture.Think I must get off my lazy butt and go in search of wonderful looking fungi.
TFS
Anita

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