Mushroom foraging is one of the many attractions of the NSW Central Tablelands. During autumn, it eclipses all the region’s other temptations, during the season Ian via his company, Detour Adventures, conducts guided mushrooming tours.
Ian Redpath bounces out of his top-of-the-range 4WD, with a brochure in hand. Called Fungi of the Central Tablelands and Central West, the sturdy pamphlet contains photographs of 96 of the probable hundreds, possible thousands, of fungi that grow in the region.
Ian cheerfully advises that of the illustrated selection, 94 of them are poisonous,…
