Fun Fungi Ecology

The hidden links in the ecosystem

Macrofungi

Great news for Australasian fungi conservation this winter with a new population of the Critically Endangered Tea-tree Fingers (TTF, Hypocreopsis amplectens) being found by local fungal enthusiast Tannar. It was great spotting as TTF is a cryptic brown fungus that lives on smaller branches that have often fallen to the […]

Tea-tree Fingers is found in the Otways

August 2, 2024 in conservation / Fire / Macrofungi / Projects / Updates by myco

We are delighted to be stocking a new A5 sized folded pocket field guide on Australian field mushrooms. Find below links to our shop if you would like to get some. South Eastern Australian field mushrooms: a glimpse at Agaricus Many people develop a fascination for all things fungal when […]

A5 field guide to South Eastern Australian field mushrooms

August 1, 2024 in Field guides / Macrofungi / Publications / Updates tagged field guides / mushrooms by myco

For over a decade there has been the possibility that the critically endangered fungus Tea-tree Fingers (Hypocreopsis amplectens or TTF) has been living in New England National Park. A record of the elusive fungus was sent to Fungimap in 2015 by a new fungi enthusiast Maria had seen a picture […]

New England searches for Tea-tree Fingers

June 3, 2024 in conservation / Macrofungi / Updates tagged conservation / Fungi by myco

Running through the land of the Wurundjeri people, the headwaters of Merri Creek rise in rural landscapes then meander through Melbourne’s rapidly developing residential and industrial corridors. It passes through valuable remnants, including the critically endangered Grasslands (we have less than 2% left) Galgi Ngarrk and Bababi Djinanang. I trust you are […]

Merri Fungi

August 17, 2020 in Macrofungi / Projects / Updates tagged Agaricus / Macrofungi / Merri Creek / Slime mould / Urban fungi by myco

Nothocastoreum cretaceum is triggered to fruit from the soil after fire. They look like little stars that have been left behind in the ash. The empty stars have spread their fine grey spores, hopefully some will become mycorrhizal partners of the regenerating plants. So far this single truffle-like species (monotypic genus […]

Star truffle appears after fire

June 22, 2019 in Fire / Macrofungi tagged fire / forest / Macrofungi / Nothocastoreum cretaceum / truffles by myco

Rickenella fibula or as it is sometimes known Orange Mosscap is a known associate of various mosses. Molecular research is divulging more about the amazing relationships fungi have with other species. Recent research by Hailee Brynn Korotkin in the Matheny lab has shown that these diminutive fungi spend their life […]

Orange Mosscap partners moss

December 26, 2018 in Macrofungi tagged Endophyte / Moss / Rickenella fibula by myco

The ‘Space Alien Fungus’ as it is sometimes described is the Anemone Stinkhorn (Aseroe rubra), other common names include sea anemone fungus and starfish fungus. It was the first Australian native fungus formally named. Collected from southern Tasmanian during the La Pérouse expedition by the French Botanist Labillardière in 1792 and described in 1800. Stinkhorns are […]

Aseroe rubra

December 20, 2018 in Macrofungi tagged Aseroe rubra / space aliens / Stinkhorns by myco