Here in Australia, it's Autumn going into Winter that we get mushrooms the most. We spotted some field mushrooms the other day, so we are getting pretty excited about the season. There's quite a few magic mushrooms in the forest too but we'll avoid them these days :) We haven't had a lot of rain, so when we do, I expect we'll go foraging. The Otway National park has some beautiful old trees. A lot of them were cut down by loggers back in the day but even then there are still many huge ones left. I love this one we spotted on our drive the other day - wouldn't it make an amazing coffee table (for giants!) with a sheet of glass over the top of it!! The shape of it is just fantastic - I think the root span pictured is probably 15 ft, and the girth of the actual tree wasn't quite so big of course - maybe only 6 ft across, but jeez it would have thumped when it landed.
That's a huge root wad! Can you imagine feeling the thump in the ground when that tree hit? It's amazing that the trees don't break when they hit the ground. Thanks for sharing -- and happy mushroom hunting!
It's called a root wad? That's cool. I know, I always wonder what they sound like when they fall!! I've never been lucky enough. Or unlucky - they can be very dangerous and every year people die from trees falling on them - I'd never camp under one in windy weather!