Tag: mushroom
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Museum of Economic Botany Adelaide South Australia
Museum of Economic Botany Adelaide South Australia The Museum of Economic Botany in Adelaide is a survivor from the nineteenth century’s era of scientific curiosity. Founded in 1881 by Dr. Richard Schomburgk, then Director of the Adelaide Botanic Garden, the museum was designed to demonstrate the practical and cultural value of plants. His vision reflected Read more
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Mittagong Mushroom Tunnel
Mittagong Mushroom Tunnel Nestled beneath Mount Gibraltar near Mittagong in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales is a Victorian-era single-track railway tunnel that today houses racks of cultivated exotic fungi. The Mittagong Mushroom Tunnel (sometimes called the Mount Gibraltar tunnel) is a surviving piece of 19th-century railway engineering that has had at least three Read more