Fun Fungi Ecology

The hidden links in the ecosystem

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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

I am delighted to have worked on a collectable set of illustrated fungi cards from around the world! These were be launched at the Victorian Moorabool Mushroom Festival on Saturday 15 April 2023. The Deck of Mushrooms: An Illustrated Field Guide to Fascinating Fungi by Dr Sapphire McMullan-Fisher For those […]

Illustrated cards launch

February 27, 2023 in Updates tagged Global / Macrofungi / Merchandise by myco

This event raised $200 to support Fungi4Land. To watch the ABC Gardening Australia from segment here. We are keen gardeners, mycologists, ecologists & conservationists: Ema Corro Tasha Nicholls Roz Hart Sapphire McMullan-Fisher Our discussion will be facilitated by Melvin Xu. Questions will be submitted through the chat function. Sapphire, Roz […]

Fungi friendly gardening chat

March 18, 2022 in Events / Updates tagged Australia / Fungi / Gardening / Management by myco

During the La Nina summer 2021-22 in Australia a number of social media posts about a rust that lives on one of our native peas (Bossiaea) often on the pea pods. So we (Zenobia, Sapphire & Fran) wanted to share some information about this native Bossiaea rust (Aecidium eburneum). Rusts are […]

A fab native rust

January 15, 2022 in Problem fungi / Updates tagged biotrophic / indigenous / native plants / pathogen / problem fungi / Rust fungi by myco

Most Australian indigenous fungi still need to be named and our understanding of the biology including distributions and associations with other species needs active work. The first step is to just start recording digital records of fungi that you see around using iNaturalist. Research grade observations go into the Atlas […]

Collecting fungi to build our knowledge

November 9, 2020 in Projects / Updates tagged Collecting / Echinochaete / FungiSight / Lost fungi / Macrofungi / MYCOmmunity / Polypores / Rubinoboletus balloui / taxonomy 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

Urban suspects This might be the last wet week of ‘Sprummer’ in Southern Mainland Australia. I have been observing and recording the ‘Summer’ fruiting of many mushrooms, puffballs and slime moulds many of the common ‘urban fungi’ including Yellow Fieldcap (Bolbitius titubans), Pleated Inkcap (Parasola plicatilis), Fairy Ring Marasmius (Marasmius […]

Urban suspects

January 9, 2019 in Updates tagged Agaricus / Agrocybe / Fairy Ring Marasmius (Marasmius oreades) / Giant Pasture Puffball (Mycenastrum corium) / Pleated Inkcap (Parasola plicatilis) / Urban fungi / Yellow Fieldcap (Bolbitius titubans) by myco

Endophytes help with drought tolerance and disease resistance. Their name comes from endo meaning inside and phyte meaning plant, this is where they spend most of their lives. Once their plant partner dies they revert to a saprotrophic lifestyle and reproduce, often on rotten logs on the forest floor where their […]

Endophytes fight drought

December 24, 2018 in Updates tagged Cookeina tricholoma / Discomycete / Endophyte / Tropical by myco