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Xylaria hypoxylon

Xylaria hypoxylon

photo Ray Palmer

Dacryopinax spathularia

Dacryopinax spathularia

photo Ray Palmer

Fomitopsis lilacinogilva

Fomitopsis lilacinogilva

photo Ray Palmer

Marasmius haematocephala

Marasmius haematocephala

photo Ray Palmer

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NZ foray & colloquium 2019

NZ foray & colloquium 2019

Our friends, Fungal Network of NZ, are running a 4-day foray and 1-day colloquium next year at Awakeri – a hot springs ...

‘Cheryl’ great for microscopy

‘Cheryl’ great for microscopy

‘Larger Fungi of South Australia’ is a technical work is based on the collections of Professor Sir John Burton Cl...

Review by Paul George

Review by Paul George

Are slime moulds really creepy? No way! A bit like a cross between animals and fungi these tiny organisms do indeed creep, bu...

Landcare story on soil architecture

Landcare story on soil architecture

Landcarers can encourage fungi by maximising habitat types and microclimates that retain a variety of organic matter (leav...

Oldest & biggest organism

Oldest & biggest organism

An Armillaria gallica in North America is now known to weigh 400,000 kg and cover an area of 370,000 sq m. And genome sequenc...

The secret life of fungi

The secret life of fungi

ABC RN drew on the Kew Gardens report – State of the World’s Fungi – and our own Tom May is a guest of Phil...

Mycorrhiza in RN Science Show

Mycorrhiza in RN Science Show

See here for ABC Radio National’s ‘listening to trees’ segment acknowledging the important role of mycorrhi...

Sarah Lloyd a winner!

Sarah Lloyd a winner!

Sarah Lloyd has been awarded the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria’s Australian Natural History Medallion in recogniti...

Blogs

State of the World’s Fungi Symposium – report

State of the World’s Fungi Symposium – report

What do dark taxa, quantum dot nanoparticles and hairy earth tongues have in common? Alison Pouliot reports on the Symposium.

Tom May, thank you.

Tom May, thank you.

Tom recently stepped down as President of Fungimap after over 20 years - a tribute by Pam Catcheside

Book Review Radical Mycology

Book Review Radical Mycology

by Alison Pouliot ‘All life is connected. This is the primary lesson that fungi teach’, so begins Radical Mycolo...

ALA & Mycena interrupta

ALA & Mycena interrupta

What does the Atlas of Living Australia tell us about the distribution of Mycena interrupta in Queensland and South Australi...

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