Summerleas Excursion,  June 2007
 Attila Vrana guided us around a network of walking tracks on his property, extending from Summerleas Road to Browns River, near Fern Tree, southern Tasmania.
 

Attila at left, showing us where an isolated cottage once stood. 

Eucalyptus cordata in flower.

Kangaroo ferns growing on small tree trunk.

This birds nest had fallen on the ground.

Entoloma panniculum, a strikingly deep-blue mushroom.

 Hypholoma fasciculare var armeniacum, sprouting from the underside of a log.

Lepota sp. showing a well defined annulus around the stype.

Close-up Uncinia riparia.    The hooks explain why these seeds stick to your socks!

This sedge is from the Cyperaceae family (to which Gahnia, Gymnoschoenus and Lepidosperma belong). Uncinate is a botanical Latin term meaning hooked (specifically a recurved hook) and riparia means "of the river". The species often forms massive swards along flood flats of rivers but is also common in wet sclerophyll forest on slopes.
 

A well formed Quoll scat!

Browns River.
Most of us crossed in the river-bed; Attila is strolling across on the slippery log.

Photos by Geoff Fenton