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Entoloma hochstetteri

This little guy is a beautiful mushroom found in New Zealand and India. The Māori name for the blue mushroom is werewere-kokako because the colour is similar t...
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This little guy is a beautiful mushroom found in New Zealand and India. The Māori name for the blue mushroom is werewere-kokako because the colour is similar to the blue wattle of the kōkako bird and it features of the New Zealand $50 note.

The blue pinkgill is named in honour of Christian Gottlieb Ferdinand von Hochstetter. Hochstetter was an Austrian geologist and naturalist who visited New Zealand in 1858 to 1860 (Fleming 1990, The Prow 2009). Although his work here was mainly geological he also made notes on natural history including fungi.
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