I was excited to find my first "toothed" or hydnoid mushroom, and one so beautifully black, the New Zealand endemic Neosarcodon carbonarius, https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations/346085811. Thanks to Jerry Cooper for the ID.

I was excited to find my first “toothed” or hydnoid mushroom, and one so beautifully black, the New Zealand endemic Neosarcodon carbonarius, https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations/346085811. Thanks to Jerry Cooper for the ID.Read more


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