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I heard planet Venus described on the radio this week as "hellish" and thought how weird it was that hell, a mythical place, had a kind of literal import, and that we earthwads imposed that myth's accepted meaning on other planets. Which, of course, led to thinking about the incredible odds of you and me and that horse and that spider over there being living matter, as insanely outnumbered as we are in this mostly dead universe. Which, of course, led to holing up with a hatchet and the Joy Division box set. Which, of course, led to reading Paul Morley's liner note about "hell" coming from a "root meaning 'concealed'" and having "less to do with punishment than simple bleak survival in a vague netherworld."
Which, of course, led to thinking about the strange vagabondish career of Eric Bachmann, a onetime guitar hellion whose songs of late host speakers shocked into zombification. His new album begins with a tale of a town "where nobody works and nobody plays," from which "even the vultures have moved on." The inhabitants are waiting for a messiah, not to save them, but to put them out of their misery; it's the apocalypse as euthanasia, or euthanasia as salvation. Bachmann's been a man adrift-- and redeemed-- since he euthanized the Archers of Loaf years ago, though his reputation beats him to every town he visits, no matter what name he gives the locals. A venue printed tickets to a recent Crooked Fingers show that read, "Crooked Fingers. Featuring Eric Bachmann. Of Archers Of Loaf." (Though to be fair, the curdling title track of the Archers' farewell White Trash Heroes could easily be considered the first Crooked Fingers song.) Bachmann's also left crumbs as Barry Black, and even under his own name-- though, curiously, that release was a film score that lacked his distinctive voice.
Don't be fooled into thinking that there are Fingers the way there are Strokes; Bachmann's supporting cast is ever-changing. His third full-length, Red Devil Dawn (named after an excellent single not included here), bears closest resemblance to "the band"'s self-titled debut in that its songs comprise an "album" the way certain quilts are made of disparate cloth-scraps. Both records feature all manner of tempos, arrangements, and topics, whereas Bring on the Snakes was, in form and content, a coherent atmospheric thinkpiece that, via percussive plucking and aquatic keys, staged romantic futility on an abstract plane.
The vox on this outing sound as if they're consciously trying to avoid the words "Neil" and "Diamond," words often tossed at the mellow Hyde into which Bachmann's rambunctious Jekyll morphed. Bachmann's Carolinian twang is allowed to linger longer, and intermittently he'll growl, risking a comic-villain put-on but reminding listeners of his olden guttural inflection (seeing him pull this off live is amazing: his mouth is Nicholson's Joker, his stance Woody Guthrie, and his height Vlade Divacs).
Sonic departures include the amped (which for Crooked Fingers means "not funereal") "You Threw a Spark" and "Sweet Marie". These tracks are driven by horn parts that, rather than add Belle & Sebastian stateliness, contribute a vibe of, um... Mexican fiesta? No kidding, this pulsing Mariachi-core will tap into your Anglo-Luddite fears and have you dreaming of sombrerobots taking over the world. "Sweet Marie" even seems designed to bitchslap Jimmy Buffett-- Bachmann sings about "sniffing glue" over a total cruise-ship or resort-lounge bounce (that even cops some bits of "I Got You, Babe"). I realize that mixing dark lyrics with bright music is the Toyota Camry of songwriting, but you've got to hear Bachmann aggravate the tourists by sneering about wanting "soft abuse" and promising to set his competitor ("that pussy bastard") straight.
Also new among Bachmann's standard batch of songs in which gods and the cosmos are implicated in failing love (as if quasars were fueled by sexual frustration) are songs that display his skill as a fabulist. Aside from the town-waiting-for-a-hero song, the album features the tale of "Boy with (100) Hands" and the awesome "Bad Man Coming", about the approach of an ultimate dark figure at the end of a long line of dark figures. These grim tunes are lullabies that will induce insomnia, fairy tales in which the fairy godmothers wet themselves and faint. I predict that this soundtrack- and fantasy-happy artist will team up with Tim Burton on a claymation goth-musical any day now. (Eric Bachmann Superstar, anyone?)
Okay, so the album's not a step forward so much as a squirm in quicksand. And yes, Red Devil Dawn is somehow sparer than its predecessors and more interested in a staring contest than a high-five. Its characters are Icaruses flying just under the radar, with wings culled from the shores of a sea that burps black Styrofoam. But we need this emphysemic, exponentially aging paperboy to rattle us every morning by announcing, "The news! Is not! Good!" Bachmann has even shown a willingness to come to terms with his past: After a preview of Reservoir Songs 2 ("Long Black Veil", "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry", "[What's So Funny 'Bout] Peace Love and Understanding") at a recent show-- to which he brought no merch and a band that admitted to not knowing some of the songs-- Bachmann yielded to the brats who kept screaming for Archers, playing "Greatest of All Time" and "Harnessed in Slums", making those brats' netherworld a little less bleak. You should have seem them, all guileless, pogo-ing and clapping, still a few years from feeling the pinch of Bachmann's more mature and desolate work. Songs such as this album's "You Can Never Leave" are going to hit them like cinderblocks.
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Bolton Street Memorial Park (2)
Posted: 04/05/2014 Filed under: Fungi, History, Mushrooms, Mycology, Science | Tags: Agrocybe parasitica, Amanita muscaria, Auricularia cornea, Coprinellus disseminatus, Coprinellus micaceus, Hebeloma crustuliniforme, Hypholoma fasciculare, Psathyrella candolleana, Tylopylus brunneus Leave a comment22 April 2014
In March I started to record the fungi that I was seeing in the Bolton Street Memorial Park (aka Bolton Street Cemetery) and in particular mushrooms on a stump on the Carr Path. I saw another flush of crumble inkcap [Coprinellus micaceus] on the 22 April 2014 but it had already began to collapse. While on the other side of the stump was a cluster of small wood-ear jelly [Auricularia cornea].
Crumble inkcap [Coprinellus micaceus]
Wood-ear jelly [Auricularia cornea]
Not far from the stump, further along the Carr path, growing on the edge of native bush but within the root zone of radiata pine [Pinus radiata] was a group of Psathyrella candolleana. This small mushroom has a blackish spore print.
Psathyrella candolleana
23 April 2014
The Bolton Street Memorial Park is cut in half by the Wellington Motorway. The fungi above were seen on the low half of the park or city side of the motorway. The next day I walked around the upper park.
Sociable inkcap [Coprinellus disseminates] – This was growing on the roots and stump of a dead tree Lyon path.
Hebeloma crustuliniforme – This was growing on a grave between the Seddon and the Holland Memorials at the top of the Robertson Way path. Richard Seddon was Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1893 until his death in 1906, and Henry Holland was Leader of the Labour Party from 1919 until his death in 1933.
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Scarlet flycap [Amanita muscaria] – Two mushrooms were growing on a grave next to the one on which I saw the Hebeloma a couple of weeks ago. The scarlet flycap, a mycorrhizal fungus, was within the root zone of root zone of 'old man' radiata pine [Pinus radiata]. The Holland Memorial is in the background. Read more about scarlet flycaps here.
A few meters further down the Robertson Way path at the junction with the Observatory path there is a group of kanaka trees [Kunzea ericoides]. Within there root zone was a group of cocoa boletes [Tylopylus brunneus] as this is a mycorrhizal species. If you bruise the pale yellow pores on the underside of the cap the tissue will 'blue' (read more about blueing here).
Back in the lower Park the stump I have been watching has again wood-ear jelly [Auricularia cornea] and tree swordbelt [Agrocybe parasitica]. But there is a now a new wood decay species, sulphur woodtuft [Hypholoma fasciculare].
Sulphur woodtuft [Hypholoma fasciculare].
Otari – Wilton's Bush Fungal Foray 2014
Posted: 27/04/2014 Filed under: Fungi, History, Mushrooms, Mycology, Science | Tags: Agaricus sp., Armillaria novaezelandae, Auricularia cornea, Calvatia craniiformis, Campanella tristis, Clitocybe nebularis, Coprinellus disseminatus, Coprinopsis lagopus, Cortinarius sp., Crucibulum laeve, Cyathus striatus, Favolashia calocera, Heimiomyces neovelutipes, Hericium coralloides, Lentinellus novae-zelandiae, Lepiota cristata, Leratiomyces ceres, Leucoagaricus leucothites, Marasmius sp., Mycena olivaceomarginata, Mycena viscidocruenta, Mycetinis curraniae, Pluteus sp., Psathyrella corrugis, Psilocybe weraroa, Russula inquinata, Russula novae-zelandiae, Schizophyllum commune, Stropharia aurantiaca, Tylopylus brunneus, Volvariella gloiocephala, Weraroa novae-zelandiae Leave a commentPrevious Otari-Wilton's bush forays: 2011, 2012, and 2013. Below are photos and comments on fungi seen over the last two days, 26-27 April.
Porcelain slimecap [Oudemansiell australis] and wood-ear jelly – These species were growing on dead karaka trees, read more here. Most of the dead trees were heavily colonised by the wood-ear jelly but one was largely colonised by porcelain slimecaps.
Olive-stemmed helmet [Mycena olivaceomarginata] – This is a small grassland species.
Red-edged roundhead [Psathyrella corrugis] – No photo but read more about this species here [as Panaeolus sp.].
Grey-gilled chalkcap [Russula inquinata] – This a mycorrhizal species found growing in association with black beech [Nothofagus solandri]. Taste is a useful characteristic to separate Russula species tasting either acrid/hot/peppery or mild. The grey-gilled chalkcap is mild.
Cocoa bolete [Tylopylus brunneus] – The cocoa bolete will, if in good condition blue when bruised or cut (see here).
Sociable inkcap [Coprinellus disseminatus] – Growing on a beech stump.
Smooth parasol [Leucoagaricus leucothites] – This species was growing in a garden mulched with gravel. There are a couple of photos of the smooth parasol I took in Marlborough last year here.
Ruby helmet [Mycena viscidocruenta] – This small red Mycena was growing on woodchips. Young fresh specimens have a clear layer of slime on their stems but this disappears as the mushrooms age or if conditions are dry. The ruby helmet also occurs in Australia and there is an excellent photo, by Heino Lepp, at the Australian Botanic Gardens' Australian Fungi website (here).
Brown birdsnest [Crucibulum laeve] – Growing on woodchip.
Fluted birdsnest [Cyathus striatus] – This larger birdsnest is easy recognised by the dark brown hairy cup with a shiny fluted interior. This is the first record of this species at Otari-Wilton's Bush.
Fragrant parasol [Lepiota cristata] – Growing in woodchip and the first record of this species at Otari-Wilton's Bush.
A webcap [Cortinarius sp.] – This species took me by surprise by growing in a gravel bed as it is a mycorrhizal genus. A quick look around showed several kanuka trees within a couple of meters.
Scarlet roundhead [Leratiomyces ceres = Stropharia aurantiaca] – Read more about this species here.
A parasol [Lepiota sp.] – One of many species of Lepiota present in New Zealand.
A shanklet [Marasmius sp.] – This was growing on the bark of a living kahikatea [Dacrycarpus dacrydioides] in the podocarp / kauri grove by the information centre.
Garlic shanklet [Mycetinis curraniae] – Read more about this species here.
A parasol [Lepiota sp.] – Another parasol in need of a name.
A mushroom [Agaricus sp.] – we recorded this unnamed Agaricus species for the first time at the 2013 foray. It was growing about 3 meters away, on the opposite side of the board walk from where it was found last year (see here).
Olive honeycap [Armillaria novaezelandae] – The olive honeycap was growing on a moribund tree in the Fernery.
Harefoot inkcap [Coprinopsis lagopus] – growing in wood chip mulch.
Split gill [Schizophyllum commune] – this little wood decay was growing on logs used to edge the paths in the Fernery.
Wood-ear jelly [Auricularia cornea] – Read more about this species here.
Orange poreconch [Favolashia calocera] – Read more about this species here.
A parasol [Lepiota sp.] – small pure white parasol found in the bush.
Bush shank [Heimiomyces neovelutipes] – I have recorded this species several times over the last two years growing on the same log.
Bluing pouch [Psilocybe weraroa = Weraroa novae-zelandiae] – We have known this little dirty white pouch fungus as a species of Weraroa for about 50 years. recent molecular research has seen this genus disestablished and its member species scattered amongst other genera. The placement of this species in Psilocybes is not surprising given the deep blue bruising that occurs when the cap is damaged as can be seen in the photo.
Native shitake [Lentinellus novae-zelandiae] – This species fruits routinely on a number of logs in the bush between the fernery and the car park.
A parasol [Lepiota sp.] – A dark grey to slate blue capped parasol growing in wood chip in the Fernery.
Common scabbard [Volvariella gloiocephala] – no photo
Still working on this little mushroom. Initially I tried to shoe horn it into Hydropus ardesiacus but it has a snuff brown spore print not a white one so I need to start again. It seemed to be growing on the frass in the centre of this cut stump rather than the wood.
Cloudy funnelcap [Clitocybe nebularis] – The cloudy funnelcap has been seen several times over the last few years at different places in the bush.
Tea chalkcap [Russula novae-zelandiae] – I collected this for the first time a week ago and is recognised by its yellowish brown cap, its mild taste, and it's association with kanaka [Kunzea ericoides]
A doilycap [Pluteus sp.] – I managed to get a very faint but distinctly pinkish/brick spore print from this specimen but not sure what, if any described, species it is.
Parachute conch [Campanella tristis] – growing on a well decayed branch in the bush.
Addendum 4 May 2014
Rita Urry, who was on the foray, sent me the following photos which she took at Otari the following weekend.
Orange poreconch [Favolaschia calocera]
Icicle tooth [Hericium coralloides]
Skull puffball [Calvatia craniiformis ] – see here for more information.
Greta Stevenson and Marasmius curranii
Posted: 25/04/2014 Filed under: Fungi, History, Mushrooms, Mycology, Science | Tags: Mycetinis curraniae Leave a commentNew Zealanders were introduced to the native mushrooms of New Zealand in a series of five papers published between 1962 and 1964. The author was Greta Stevenson who began collecting mushrooms in the late 1940s and through the 1950s culminating in her going to Kew to work in the herbarium and prepare a manuscript for publication. 'The Agaricales of New Zealand' series were published in Kew Bulletin with the Nuffield Foundation funding the printing of the coloured plates. Marie Taylor told me that Greta was terribly disappointed in the colour reproduction of her water colours.
In her biography Kay McFarlane says that Greta went to Wellington in 1970 where she worked for ten years as an unpaid research officer in the Botany Department at Victoria University of Wellington. She also says that from 1980 to 1981 Greta worked at the University of Canterbury's Botany Department where, while undertaking research, she conducted a number of workshops and study courses on larger fungi. This is not totally correct. In her obituary of Greta Marie Taylor noted that "Her characteristic acerbic comment leaves us in in no doubt of her position on controversial topics". A falling out with the Botany Department in 1980 saw Greta move to the Geology department. In 1981 I attended an extension course on identifying larger fungi run by Greta at Victoria University. Greta used the notes she produced for this course for her book Field Guide to Fungi (1982) which was reprinted after her death as New Zealand Fungi: an Illustrated Guide (1994). Unfortunately Greta fell out with the Geology Department which resulted in her move to Christchurch and then to England where she died in 1991.
In Greta's 1964 paper she described a small mushroom collected at Butterfly Creek, on the western side of Wellington Harbour, as Marasmius curranii. It was described as growing on the bark of dead wood. The name did not conform to the rules of naming in Latin and was later corrected to Marasmius curraniae. It was not until 1997 that a fuller description would be written by Desjardin and Horak (1997). This description was based on new collections and noted that the mushrooms smelt of garlic and were found growing on the rotting bark of Leptospermum sp. or Metrosideros umbellate. Finally Jerry Cooper reassigned it to the genus Mycetinis as Mycetinis curraniae (2012). Jerry also added an exotic conifer species, Cupressus macrocarpa, to the host list.
For the last five years I have been observing a small mushroom growing on the bark of a living totara [Podocarpus totara] at Otari-Wilton's Bush which I have been calling Micromphale sp. [garlic shanklet]. Jerry kindly identified it in a previous blog.
Desjardin, D.E.; Horak, E. 1997. Marasmius and Gloiocephala in the South Pacific Region: Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, and New Zealand taxa. Bibliotheca Mycologica 168: 152 p.
McFarlane, K. Stevenson, Greta Barbara. From the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 19 February 2014. http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/biographies/4s44/stevenson-greta-barbara
Stevenson, G. 1964. The Agaricales of New Zealand: V. Kew Bulletin 19: 1-59.
Stevenson, G. 1982. Field Guide to Fungi. University of Canterbury Publication No. 30.
Stevenson, G. 1994. New Zealand Fungi: an Illustrated Guide. Canterbury University Press.
Taylor, M. 1991. Greta B Stevenson Cone. New Zealand Botanical Society Newsletter 23: 7.
P.S. As a social history aside Greta's father was managing director of the family's food-processing company, Irvine and Stevenson's St George, in Dunedin. I remember St Georges jam as a child. The company ceased production in the early 1970s.
Otari-Wilton's Bush, Sunday 20 April 2014
Posted: 22/04/2014 Filed under: Fungi, Mushrooms, Mycology, Science, Uncategorized | Tags: Amanita nothofagi, Armillaria novaezelandae, Auricularia cornea, Campanella tristis, Coprinellus disseminatus, Coprinopsis lagopus, Crucibulum laeve, Favolashia calocera, Lacramaria lacrymabunda, Lepiota, Leratiomyces ceres, Melanoleuca melanoleuca, Mycena olivaceomarginata, Mycena viscidocruenta, Mycetinis curraniae, Parasola leiocephala, Psathyrella corrugis, Russula novae-zelandiae, Volvariella gloiocephala Leave a comment
On my last foray to Otari- Wilton's Bush I said that it had been a dry cool summer and autumn was not much better. The rains have now arrived and the Wellington region has had two very wet periods in the last two weeks. Here is the rainfall data for the Karori Sanctuary (aka Zealandia) which is a few kilometres to the south of Otari but in the same catchment. (Rainfall graph generated at Greater Wellington Regional Council web site.)
Otari-Wilton's Bush has a canopy walkway through the treetops. About 18 months ago the decision was made to kill some of the karaka trees [Corynocarpus laevigatus] although native they are not native to this bush and considered invasive. These trees are long dead, have lost their leaves and are now prime fungi habit. Following the recent rain these trees are festooned in wood-ear jellies [Auricularia cornea].
Although there were many species fruiting they were not abundant and often only one or two mushrooms. However there were several species that I had not seen before: a parasol [Lepiota sp.], brown-umbrella inkcap [Parasola leiocephala]; ruby helmet [Mycena viscidocruenta], olive-stemmed helmet [Mycena olivaceomarginata], Parachute conch [Campanella tristis] and tea chalkcap [Russula novae-zelandiae].
The fungi
A parasol [Lepiota sp.] – This was growing in the leaf litter under the podocarp-kauri stand next to the Information Centre band and was first recoded in April 2013.
Another parasol [Lepiota sp.] – This species was growing in the same habit as the previous species and is the first record for the Otari.
Dark cavalier [Melanoleuca melanoleuca] – Again under the podocarp-kauri stand was a group of three aging and beginning to decay mushrooms which I have tentatively identified as the dark cavalier.
Garlic shanklet [Mycetinis curraniae] – On the bark of living totara [Podocarpus totara].
Brown-umbrella inkcap [Parasola leiocephala] – the brown-umbrella inkcap, growing on woodchips, was segregated from the Japanese-umbrella inkcap. The latter tends to be smaller and paler then the brown-umbrella inkcap.
Red-edged roundhead [Psathyrella corrugis] – Growing on woodchips. I need to check this identification.
Harefoot inkcap [Coprinopsis lagopus] – Growing on woodchips.
Charcoal flycap [Amanita nothofagi] – Beneath black beech [Nothofagus solandri]. [Note it has snapped at the base and is lying on its side.]
Sociable inkcap [Coprinellus disseminatus] – growing on dead woody roots.
Weeping widow [Lacramaria lacrymabunda] – Growing on woodchips.
Ruby helmet [Mycena viscidocruenta] – This small red Mycena was growing on woodchips. Young fresh specimens have a clear layer of slime on their stems but this disappears as the mushrooms age or if conditions are dry.
Brown birdsnest [Crucibulum laeve] – Growing on larger pieces of woodchip.
Scarlet roundhead [Leratiomyces ceres] – Growing on woodchips.
Olive-stemmed helmet [Mycena olivaceomarginata] – This little Mycena was growing on the Cockayne Lawn.
Wood-ear jelly [Auricularia cornea] – This was seen many times on rotting wood. This specimen, at the base of a dead tree was growing in the bush below the Fernery.
Olive honeycap [Armillaria novaezelandae] – growing on a living tree in the Fernery.
Orange poreconch [Favolashia calocera] – This was as common as the wood-ear jelly growing on nearly every dead branch in the bush.
Common scabbards [Volvariella gloiocephala] – Growing on woodchips. The cup or volva at the base of the stem can be seen quite clearly.
Parachute conch [Campanella tristis] – This little, greyish conch, has poorly defined gills with ridges running between the radial gill ridges to give a reticulated pattern. This was growing on dead wood and this photo shows the underside of the mushroom.
White mushroom – growing on the dead rachis of a mamaku / tree fern [Cyathea medullaris] frond. I am wondering whether or not this is porcelain slimecap [Oudemansiell australis]. I need to do some work on this one.
Tea chalkcap [Russula novae-zelandiae] – This tea coloured chalkcap, an ectomycorrhizal species, was growing under kanaka [Kunzea ericoides]. A useful characteristic in Russula is taste. Cut a small piece of tissue, about 2x2x2mm, from the internal flesh or from the gills. Put this piece of mushroom flesh on the tip of your tongue and chew it with your front teeth. Some Russula species are hot/peppery and some mild (have a glass of water handy to rinse with. The tea chalkcap is mild.
Bolton Street Memorial Park
Posted: 13/04/2014 Filed under: Fungi, History, Mushrooms, Mycology, Science | Tags: Agrocybe parasitica, Coprinellus micaceus Leave a commentTwice a day I walk through the Bolton Street Memorial Park aka the Bolton Street Cemetery. So I have decided to keep an eye open for mushrooms and record them here.
At the beginning of the Carr Path there is a stump which I had seen 3 or 4 flushes of the crumble inkcap [Coprinellus micaceus] over the last three months. And of course I didn't record these! So when I saw something different I decided I should. The something different was the native wood decay mushroom tree swordbelt [Agrocybe parasitica]. This species is often seen growing from the trunk of living trees but as in this case can utilise stumps. This was 23 March 2014.
Three days later, 26 March, the tree swordbelt had shrivelled away to almost nothing to be replaced by a flush a new flush of the crumble inkcap [Coprinellus micaceus]. The second photo shows clearly the 'mica' or glistening fragments on the surface of the cap.
Otari-Wilton's Bush 30 March 2014
Posted: 13/04/2014 Filed under: Fungi, Mushrooms, Mycology, Science, Uncategorized | Tags: Clitocybe nebularis, Coprinopsis lagopus, Favolaschia calocera, Micromphale, Tylopylus brunneus, Volvariella gloiocephala 1 CommentIt is only a couple of weeks to the annual fungal foray at Otari-Wilton's Bush. The walk start at 2pm from the Otari Information Centre, Te Marae o Tane, 160 Wilton Road. Cost for Otari walks $3 and free for Trust members. For further information contact the Treehouse on (04) 499 1400. http://www.kennett.co.nz/otariwiltonsbush2/
It has been a cool dry summer over most of New Zealand so I wasn't expecting to see much today.
When I was here 2 weeks ago there was no sign of the garlic shanklet [Micromphale sp.] but here it is again. I have consistently found it growing on the living bark of a totara [Podocarpus totara] next to the Information Centre in a mixed grove of podocarps and kauri (Agathis australis).
Just below the Cockayne Lawn in the native plant collection garden is a grove of southern beech including black beech (Nothofagus solandri var. solandri). Although native to New Zealand southern beech do not naturally occur on the Wellington peninsular. Beech form ectomycorrhizae with a number of mushroom species and these species only occur where beech or tea tree [Kunzea and Leptopsermum] are growing. I found a single ectomycorrhizal species fruiting – the cocoa bolete [Tylopylus brunneus ].
Much of the plant collection gardens have been mulched in the last year or two with wood chip. I found these smallish common scabbards [Volvariella gloiocephala] growing in the the native plant collection garden below the Cockayne Lawn and in the garden surrounding the Ponga Lawn. They were a little odd in not having very well developed egg like bases to the stem.
Another wood chip fungus is the hares's foot inkcap [Coprinopsis lagopus]. This was also in the native plant collection garden below the Cockayne Lawn and in the gardens surrounding the Kauri Lawn.
There were a few branches on the forest floor especially in the Fernery that had clusters of orange poreconch [Favolashia calocera].
Walking down the track from the Cabbage Tree Lawn to the stream I came across cloudy funnelcap [Clitocybe nebularis ] at the base of a mamaku / tree fern [Cyathea medullaris] in a grove of mamaku. These mushroom were 15-20cm in diameter. [Note I saw an arc of about 10 cloudy funnelcaps the next weekend, 6 April, in the Wellington Botanic Garden on the slope above the Glen Rd entrance.]
Hope to see you at the foray.
Don Horne: natural history photographer
Posted: 26/03/2014 Filed under: Uncategorized 3 CommentsMy collaborator in producing the Mushrooms and other fungi of New Zealand, Don Horne, died yesterday. I met Don and his wife Gwen at the first New Zealand Fungal Foray held in Thames in 1986. I was one year into my PhD and with only one season of collecting mushrooms behind me. The Foray was held over a weekend and in the evening there were talks and slide shows. Don's slide show was the first time I had seen truly beautiful and artistic photos of New Zealand fungi.
Don explained how he took the photo and where he took it and quite often would put a name to the mushroom that he had gleaned from overseas books so were often a good guess but not correct. Don's photos were artistic and often did not include the necessary detail, such as gills and stem shape, to make an identification which was hugely frustrating to those of us that wanted to know what they were.
Don and I became regular attendees at the annual Forays and over the next couple of years I was able to convince him that he should not only take an artistic shot of the mushroom but also a diagnostic shot, and even better to keep a voucher specimen so a robust identification could be made. Over the next ten years or so Don's photos appeared in a number of magazine articles on New Zealand fungi but his goal was to produce a book. In the late 90s he persuaded Reed Publishing to do a fungal guide book in its New Zealand nature series. I realised that this was very much Don's book so when he asked me to help him write it a declined but volunteered to proof it and check the identifications. The book was duly published in 2000.
Don then set his sights on postage stamps. New Zealand had issued stamps based on native flowers, insects, and birds but never on fungi. Don was determined to change this and in 2002 a six stamps featuring his photographs were issued by New Zealand Post.
Now Don was ready to do another mushroom book. He really always wanted to do a coffee table / large format book to feature his mushroom photos. Unfortunately most publishers considered the market too small for such a book in New Zealand. But in his discussion with publishers New Holland Press expressed interest in publishing a mushroom book in their pocket field guide series. New Holland was keen to have a more scientific text to accompany the photos so Don again approached me. So we became collaborators and the book was published in 2006 and is just about to have, in 2014, its fourth reprint. In the strange way that publishing works I was considered the author with photos by Don. I always felt bad about this convention as his photos standalone without the text but the text is nothing without the photos.
Don helped to illuminate mycology in New Zealand and he will be missed.


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I could imagine that would be the case with that beast! although I have groups of Elephant in my head. I have heard of this CZ feeding problem often, both here in Aus and in Africa but I must say the ones I've have played with fed flawlessly. Self defence shooting of three Ele with Brno416.
Good Day all, I am here at Pauls request, maybe to answer some questions for you. One has been head stamped brass for the B&Ms and the MDM. Yes, it is available, right now I have stocked some brass from Quality Cartridge. I have had some issues with some of this brass, mostly in the 500 MDM. The 50 B&M, 475 B&M, 458 B&M, 416 B&M, 410 B&M, 375 B&M, 9.3 B&M and finally the 500 MDM are based off of RUM brass. The B&Ms are shortened to 2.25 inches and work from Winchester M70 WSM actions. The 500 MDM is a full length 2.8 inch RUM case, works from a Win M70 that was built for 300 RUM. I use 375 RUM taken out to .500 caliber. The brass, unknown to me at the time, for the 500 MDM that Quality did was based off of basic 404 Jeff from Hornady. It's great brass, however being .004 smaller in diameter than Basic RUM brass! This causes zero issues in the B&M series, but in the 500 MDM and it's extra length the brass over expands, and after 3-4 firings it becomes sticky and scratchy when fired and extracted. So I am not very happy with this issue at all in the 500 MDM. At first I thought it might be something else, I conducted a series of tests with 375 RUM brass, fired this brass 10 times at full 65000 PSI loads, and zero issue, no problems, nothing, and the brass is ready to go another 10 firings. Not so with the Quality 500 MDM. Last fall I got in contact with Dieter Horneber in Germany, and have contracted with Dieter to make a run of 1000 pieces of basic to SPEC--RUM brass with 500 MDM head stamps. Hoping for delivery of this brass any day now. Since this is to spec and with Hornebers excellent reputation I expect this brass to be superb, and work very well. After testing this I will be contracting with Dieter for all the B&M series cartridges and proper, excellent head stamped brass--not only that, but very reasonable prices as well. Michael
Ok, now would like to address a couple of other things I saw reading through the thread. Paul mentions 3 down +1. Well, this can be done, but snapping over the extractor in a control feed gun I am not so keen on. Myself I always put 3 down, work from the magazine to keep from putting undue stress on the extractor over time. I understand there are some aftermarket extractors that can handle this, but being somewhat old school I am not so sure I trust such. So I keep all the Win M70s at 3 down, work from the magazine. Never had a need that I could not load fast enough to feel that I had to have 4-5 down in the magazine, so I have been content with that. When I started this little B&M adventure in 2005 I had no earthly idea it would lead to what it has become. It was merely an effort to get a shorter, lighter, faster handling rifle for me to use in the field. But it had to have enough power to handle most anything I might run across. I looked at the sort of rifle I wanted, then what is the biggest cartridge and bullet I can work with on that rifle! And the first was the 50 B&M on a Winchester M70 WSM action, .500 caliber, 18 inch barrel--6.5-8 lbs, depending on the stock, Win Ultimate or Wood by Accurate Innovations. It's capable of 500 gr bullets at 2150 fps, 450-460s up to 2250 fps and under pressure. The same with the 458 B&M as well--so they are equal to 458 Winchester, only the 458 Win has to have 24 inches of barrel to do that, and normally comes in at 9-10 lbs. I would have to equate the 50 B&M with it's extra diameter to hitting anything as hard and equal to 458 Lott. And I have used 458 Lott many many times in the field for comparisons. The 500 MDM was on the books for some time before going ahead with it. I actually felt I was going back in the larger direction with the rifle, which is true to an extent. With the case capacity of the full length RUM case, and 500 Caliber, I started the 500 MDM with a 21 inch barrel. So these rifles come in shorter and lighter than your standard 458 Lott. Not bad for the levels that this can be run to. Last fall I finally got around to doing pressure traces on the 500 MDM, and had some tremendous surprises in store! From case study working up the first loads I thought I might be approaching upper levels, I was very conservative, and incorrect. Over the last few years I have worked extremely hard getting proper .500 caliber bullets for serious work in the field, buffalo, elephant, hippo the works. We have that in .500 caliber from several sources now, but the two I like most is a bullet we developed with the help of Cutting Edge bullets and from North Fork Tech. With new modern solids we no longer need to worry much with Sectional Density. When I first started with the 500 MDM I had bullets made at 550 grs. I no longer use those, I use the 500 gr CEB BBW#13 Solid, matched with a 460 CEB BBW#13 NonCon--Brass HP. From North Fork a 450 gr FPS and CPS--Cup Point Solid, but expanding cup point! Yes, light for caliber, but terminals is where it counts, and these can handle any job on the planet with ease! Doing the pressure traces I can easy take the 500 gr CEB #13 Solid to over 2600 fps and stay well under pressure, the matching 460 NonCon to 2650, the North Fork 450s to 2750 fps, all well under pressure limits. In a 21 inch, 8.5 lb Winchester M70. Now, this is not needed for field work in my opinion. I am taking the 500 MDM along in June for a run at some buffalo and plains game and anything else I can get at the time. Working loads right now I have the 500 CEB #13 at 2400 fps, 460 NonCon at a touch over 2500 fps, the North Forks in the 2500 fps range as well. Working on POIs at 50 yds so I can use and test these bullets in the field in June. Same bullets will be used in one of my 50 B&Ms as well. I expect some really excellent results. I have what is called a Super Short series, consists of 3 cartridges, 50 B&M Super Short .500 caliber, 458 Super Short, and a new 475 Super Short. These are tiny guns, based off the Win WSM case, cut and trimmed to 1.65 inches, they fit in a tiny little Winchester WSSM rifle--16 inch barrels, Ultimate stocks, weigh 6.25 lbs. With the right bullets, they can push some envelopes as well. I had North Fork make a .500 caliber FPS and CPS for the 50 Super Short at 375 grs. These bullets do better in test work than most of our common big bore bullets we use in some common other calibers, far the heavies! Which is saying quite a bit. I could not help myself but the other week I took that 375 North Fork to the 500 MDM for giggles to see what I could come up with, and stay under pressures. I was able to go over 3000 fps with the 375 North Fork at around 59000 PSI. I stopped, no need to go further! The cartridge and rifle have been rather impressive, for the size of the rifle! Oh to be sure, there are many many big and large caliber cartridges that can equal or exceed the 500 MDM---but not in the same package that is wrapped around the cartridge!!!! Winchester M70! Michael
Mike Hi Buddy! Concerning the "NO ROUNDNOSE SOLIDS" in my rifles, I have not sent that paper work to Paul yet, but the clause is in there, and he MUST sign off on this before I ship the rifles to the exporter! There will be NO days that a round nose solid will POLLUTE the bores of one of my rifles! This could cause a severe failure of performance that I cannot tolerate under any circumstances. So this has to be signed and under contract before the rifle leaves here!!!!! HEH HEH HEH Michael
Thanks for stopping in michael458 and giving us those explanations. My first venture into the bigger bores was last summer when I picked up a M70 375. I could see myself venturing up to 416 maybe even the 458 at some point. I'll be keeping my eye on your progress. I've always loved my various M70's so a custom based on this action may just be in my future.
Thank you so much to Mike for stopping by and clearing up some of the requests for information, and setting straight some of my inaccuracies. From the response provided; Phoenix Phil,as you can see, all is good to go with brass and these cartrdiges were designed to be based on your favourite platform action, so there's a couple more excuses for not getting one, out of the way ??? Classicsafari, my apoligies for my misleading information on the capacity as I read that although it is possible, it certainly isn't reccomended to ride over that fourth round. Meaning, you will only get three of those Ele's down before being trampled ! Neat picture by the way, thanks for posting. Again, for those visiting who would like more information on these rifles and cartridges, please visit; B & M Rifles and Cartridges
Feeding from the magazine Lets, see, you load all the cartridges in the magazine it will hold, in a CRF bolt action. With one hand you hold the cartridges down in the magazine with your fingers to allow the bolt to ride partially over the cartridges without picking them up. You then take another round, slip it towards the chamber, placing the head of the cartridge down into the magazine as though it was being fed into the chamer. Now you move the bolt slowly forward, allowing the rim to come up under the extractor so as not to force the extractor over the rim, just as though it was being fed from the magazine. You follow through slowly putting the bolt into battery. Finally, with the safety on, you cycle all the cartidges thru the magazine to assure that the rifle will feed reliably with the magazine full and another in the chamber. One in the chamber and three in the magazine trumps one and two in my book. I started doing this with my M70 Supergrade in .270 Win in 1957, without a hitch, and have done so in literally hundreds of bolt actions since. I don't remember a problem, as if you follow my procedure, your rifle will tell you whether it works with that specific gun. The ony one I can remember as being recalcitrant is my Weatherby .240 Mag. It will take six in the magazine but will not allow the seventh in the chamber, as the bolt will not ride over the carttridges in the magazine, as they cannot be pushed further down into the magazine. Occasionally you find a rifle like this. Again, the rifle will tell you whether it will work with it or not. After such an erudite discussion, I was a little surprised to hear of concerns over snapping the CRF extractor over a case that is finger fed directly into the chamber. That is known not to be good for the extractor, and many Mauser=type rifles will not allow the extractor to snap over a chambered round at all. In my case, I knew this 50 years ago and have always used the method described. Am I missing something here?
mhlmv1, thank-you for sharing your experience and knowledge. I too have been doing as you have, with my Cz actioned rifle, carefully feeding an additional cartridge below the extractor and down the action ahead of those held in the magazine, with complete satisfaction. Though the leading edge of the extractor on my Cz has a slight chamfer facilitating this process. I do not know just how much this chamfer contributes to this process, wether the Winchester extractor has this chamfer or wether the lack of this forward chamfer prevents this from being done in a c.r.f action. I do know that there are after-market extractors available specifically ground with this leading chamfer that could be installed at little expense that would allow this process. I also believe that with the Mod 70, in its current form, loading that additional catridge is possible, it is just not reccomended on an ongoing/regular basis as there is a perceived risk/potential of snapping/breaking the extractor. In my own circumstances, and the purposes for which I have obtained this rifle, that additional cartridge is not of paramount importance. Sure, 3 down and one up would be nice, but a total of 3 from THIS cartridge will see me out of most of the worst situations and for the rest, well i am fairly well versed in reloading quickly from a handily positioned cartridge belt which carries my "spares". To date, the most rounds i have had to fire in a back-up/charge stopping scenario was 8 on a particularly belligerent bull who had not read any of the ballistics charts of the 458Lott and .470N which were being used in his attempted demise. The first shot from the client was slightly miss-placed and the ensuing battle, which included two consecutive charges at close range, in thick-tall grass, required several very quick re-loads from the belt as my rifle at that time also only held 3 all-up and the client was using a double. In a situation such as this you never have enough rounds in the rifle and practiced re-loading from a functional, and well positioned, ammo pouch is usually more valuable than having that one extra round (at least in MY hunting circumstances). Again, you input and knowledge in these things is appreciated, thank-you for posting.
Yeah Paul, the buffs really would be getting the thorough treatment with this Goliath ... Hope to use it with you on a buff hunt soon at your place...... Monish
Really a nice looking rifle, a bit too much recoil for me and although I can shoot the really big bores, I do have to school my mind to do so, therefore I built myself an almost identical rifle to yours but in a .416 Rem. I like the 40 calibers both in my double rifles and bolt guns, the 404 Jefferys and 450-400 being my favorite.
Thanks for your input Ray. I think that most experienced big bore shooters would be pleasantly surpirsed at just how managable this cartridge, in this particular rifle, is. I fired an original rifle, very similar to this one, back in 2009, owned by the cartridge designer Mike McCourry with 500gn solids at about 2400 and 470gn hollow points at about the same vels, and the percieved recoil is very similar to full power loads from a standard 458Lott(in a rifle that weighs a pound +, or more !). The finished weight of the firearm and the ballistics produced by the cartridge has everyone convinced that it would indeed be a fearsome beast, but to be perfectly honest I find it more tolerable that a hotly loaded .416 Rigby. Your chosen .416 Rem is very user freindly cartridge that carries plenty of authority. My main motivation in having this rifle built was to reduce the over-all weight and size of rifle i am required to carry over the duration of my hunting season and when, in 2009, I witnessed the effects of this cartridge on our buffalo, well I just had to have one ! Accurate Innovations build an excellent big bore rifle stock, both in terms of handling qualities as well as seemingly contributing to reducing felt recoil, despite of the finished weight. Ray, please feel free to tag on a pic of your .416 here, I'd love to take a peek. Cheers, Paul.
This is the emergency replacement rifle, (I operate in a remote area well away from any gun stores), for the .500 listed in this thread. Platform; Win Mod 70 C.R.F. Barrel; Pacnor 22". Stock; Accurate Innovations Turkish Walnut with aliminium bedding chassis. Sights; N.E.C.G Metalwork; S.S.K Industries Finish; Gunkote matt. Weight; 8.75lbs Length; 42.5".
As a follow-up to this thread that I commenced back in Feb this year I can now report that this .500 MDM rifle, subject of this thread, was given a thorough work-out in the field in use as a back-up weapon on our buffalo hunts in Arnhemland, Australia this current season. Firstly, I would like to mention the ergonomics of this firearm; Without any doubt what-so-ever this is the most pleasant firearm I have ever carried for any reasonable duration of time (every day, for over for over four months). Light weight (for a big bore), short in over-all length, a rifle of these dimensions is a pure joy to carry and at no stage during the entire season did it ever feel cumbersome or tiring to carry. By far the best carrying rifle I have owned to date. Light and short, it is very fast to employ in to action and for fast and furious action where you to need to swing around to aquire a target it is extremely fast and positive. It goes without saying that a .50 cal rifle weighing 8.5lbs is going to kick. No shit Sherlock ! The ergonomics of this stock go A LONG WAY to reducing felt recoil and taming it to a point where I would say it is no worse than full loads in a Lott. After one full season and about 220 loads I am more than comfortable with the rifle, recoil not being an issue. Excellent handling characteristics. Mechanical performance; With over 200 rounds down the tube now, some at the range testing, most in the field and with not so much as a slight hitch, no mis-feeds, no jams, no lock-ups no nothing. Shoots ragged holes as groups at 50yds and functions with repeated consistancy. Mechanical performance was excellent. Regarding field performance. I could end this right here with one word; staggering ! The 460gn C.E.B # 13 Non-con projectile handloaded at 2400fps proved absolutely devastating. Some of the knock-downs, on running buffalo, were stunning. In every instance the projectiles did what they were designed to do with the petals shearing and creating a disaster area of the insides and the remaining shank penetrating the rest of the animal in a true straight line of the angle the original shot was taken. Of 16 bovines shot only one shank was recovered and this was after it had penetrated almost 6ft of a wild Oxen. This cartrdige packs some SERIOUS punch and delivers it to buffalo in a very emphatic manner ! I have used many, and seen many other, calibers employed on our buffalo and I can comfortably relate that this cartridge, using these projectiles, is in a class of its own. Sadly, as a reloading only proposition there are many shooters and hunters who could benefit greatly from such a chambering that will never know. For those that wish to experiment I can relay that forming brass from .375 Rum ultra mag is straight forward for anyone who has fireformed cartridges before. The .500 MDM is not difficult to load for so long as basic reloading principals of minding pressure are adhered to. Both C.E.B and North Fork are making SERIOUS hunting projectiles in .50 cal Performance of cartridge; EXCEPTIONAL ! Cheers for now and thanks for looking. Paul.
So Paul, after reading this thread, I take it that you really really like this caliber. Seriously, It sounds fantastic a true half inch bullet with managable recoil for most shooters, and the devastating effects on Buffalo you are describing sounds almost to good to be true. Congrats on finding your big bore.
so as you dont need the v/c double now i will generously allow you to send it to me for christmas :biggrin2:
:laughing: Nice try Spike ! Your right, ofcourse, I don't NEED the V.C, but then what did NEED ever have to do with it ??? Been told it's only a matter of a few days away !!, happy days !!
50 cal hunting projectiles ,thats a fair dinkum statement paul . as intrigued as i am with this thread i think im way out of my league mate . thanks for the insight though bluey