Become mushroom wise
Fungi are mysterious and perhaps unjustifiably regarded with some degree of suspicion.
The world of fungi and their fascinating parents, the mushrooms, are perhaps the most important community of living organisms on earth.
More plant-like than animal-like, fungi that live and thrive in the forest topsoil, in the leaf-mulch and on dead twigs and logs, are the organisms responsible for returning all the forests’ organic matter, back into the soil to become the rich nutrients required to sustain the forest itself.
Fungi help to distribute water to algae and trees in return for food. Fungi find their way through a latticework of mycelium that invades all dead plant material, and venture deep into the hardwood of the largest logs and tree stumps. The resultant spalting, produces colourful patterns to delight the eye and soothe the soul.
There is a growing inquisitiveness for, and the required understanding of, fungi’s visible as well as invisible role in the life and mystery of the forest.
We have currently identified the first groups of mushrooms along The Clivia Trail, to be admired, sensitive to own curiosity, while you walk.
Perhaps, just perhaps, your introduction to this fungal community along The Clivia Trail, will spark an interest in you, as to how you too, can help heal our earth through a deeper understanding of forest fungi and mushrooms.
Remember that all mushrooms are edible, but some only once; those being the poisonous ones. Please do not experiment with the eating of mushrooms without expert advice.
The growing knowledge of the healing properties of so many of the safely edible mushrooms found in the forest, gives further hope to humanity.
Watch the two Netflix documentaries; Fantastic Fungi and How to Change Your Mind, and become a mushroom enthusiast, with the roots of your knowledge, further enhanced on The Clivia Trail. Please do not pick any of the mushrooms along The Clivia Trail.
Becoming Mushroom Wise