A rather large and wide-spreading relict from early farming days
Locally abundant in gravel around building
A patch of native orchids growing on an old pine stump. With seed capsules
A short distance into the western entrance of McHughs Plantation, Darfield
Yellow mushroom growing in wood chip mulch
Microlaena avenacea, locally common on track margin
She's been occupying a huge orb web the past two weeks.
Slime mold - Stemonitis splendens ?
growing on the side of an old log
Occasional, under lowland alluvial podocarp-broadleaved forest
Pneumatopteris pennigera, locally common in highly modified remnant native forest
Occasional, under lowland alluvial podocarp-broadleaved forest
newly emerged, climbing a water pipe outside the house (photos turned sideways).