On a soggy wet Saturday morning, 17 participants gathered in the Jarrah Marri forest to look for Fungi at Glen Forest in the hills outside Perth, tucked away near the National Park near Mundaring Weir. Despite the very wet conditions, a total of twenty four fu...

Alison Pouliot The so-called “shroom boom” is here and interest in fungi is growing rapidly, especially among the foraging community. But beyond edible mushrooms, fungi provide the fundamental soil architecture that holds terrestrial ecosystems together. B...

Hello Fungimappers, A quick word to introduce myself – my name is Cam Durnsford, and I’ve recently started at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria – Melbourne Gardens as the new Fungimap coordinator. I come to the role with experience working in co...

Fungimap has been monitoring Tea-tree fingers – a parasitic fungus on a paint fungus that lives on Tea-tree. Septobasidium clelandii is a parasitic fungus that can be found emerging from swellings on Tea-tree twigs. However it is not parasitic on the Te...