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Liz Hobday

Documentary unearths wonders of Australia's fungi

Catherine Marciniak and Stephen Axford: without fungi, there would be no forest, no humans. (HANDOUT/STEPHEN AXFORD AND CATHERINE MARCINIAK)

Walking in the sub-tropical forests of northern NSW, acclaimed fungi photographer Stephen Axford came across an unusual bright blue mushroom.

He'd never seen anything like it and found it was a species unknown to science - one of between two and 10 million scientists estimate are still to be discovered.

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