Local parks are often the only places people see fungi. After 20 years of revegetation using 320 species of locally indigenous plants, Westgate Park has become a biodiversity hotspot thanks to the work of the Friends of Westgate Park (now Westgate Biodiversity...

While many people associate fungi with damp habitats of wetter forests, Australia’s vast desert areas have their own highly specialised mycota. As with desert fauna and flora, desert fungi are superbly adapted to cope with hostile conditions such as extreme ...

The new marine fungus – Annabella australiensis – is the latest of only 11 marine fungi to be identified in Australia – a hugely neglected area of biodiversity. Fungi are an essential, ubiquitous, and very poorly understood component of mar...

Tom May (Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria) In May 2019, Fungimap held events in East Gippsland as part of the ‘Putting the Victorian fungi on the map’ project supported by the Victorian governnment. One of the events was a trip to Fairy Dell, organised by th...