Rainforests are particularly rich in fungi due to the high and fairly constant levels of moisture on the ground. Fungi are a huge group of organisms that are classified into a separate Kingdom alongside plants and animals. They include typical mushrooms but also huge groups of moulds, and single celled/microscopic pathogens. Mushrooms, shelf Fungi, coral fungi and other similar groups are abundant along the rainforest tracks in the Village and around the Dam.
If you want to try your hand at identifying some fungi around Paluma here are 5 easy species of fungi to get you started.
Below is a Further selection of interesting ones that have been tentatively identified (mostly down to species or genus).
Some images of slime moulds are also included here, although they are now classified with the Protozoans.
Recent blog posts relating to fungi can be found here.