If you are partial to mosses and fungi, the premier South Australian place is the floor of the old-growth stringybark forest in Deep Creek National Park.
The best time to go there is midwinter, in a cool, wet winter.
It is less than two hours’ easy driving away from Adelaide, but in a “proper winter” this forest “feels” like another planet.
Moss and fungi co-star in today’s featured image, but this is the last time in this series that any plant species will enjoy “hero” status.
The next post’s hero fungi are neither a whole lot weirder, nor very much bigger than today’s.
However, not long thereafter…