Conservation on Tea-tree Fingers

Conservation on Tea-tree Fingers

Fungal enthusiasts should be heartened to hear that work continues on conserving the threatened fungus Tea-tree Fingers (TTF, Hypocreopsis amplectens). TTF is an unusual fungus as it is a mycoparasite of wood rot fungi Hymenochaetopsis and Hymenochaete species...

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Find our Fungi! SA Murraylands and Riverland region

Find our Fungi! SA Murraylands and Riverland region

The Murraylands and Riverland Landscape Board (SA) have teamed up with Fungimap to develop a citizen science instruction booklet and identification chart for community fungi monitoring. Ten target species have been selected, and community citizen scientists ar...

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Fungimap Committee update

Fungimap Committee update

Thanks to those who completed our recent member survey! The responses indicated that members very much consider our core role to continue to be maintaining our fungi records database (with transfers to the Atlas of Living Australia) and continuing to encoura...

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Dr Jordan Bailey webinar “Specimen preservation and purpose”

Dr Jordan Bailey webinar “Specimen preservation and purpose”

Following Roy Halling’s fascinating talk on Boletes last month, in March we welcome Dr Jordan Bailey from the NSW Plant Pathology & Mycology Herbarium. The webinars are free for paid Fungimap members (click here if you would like to join), while no...

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Perth: Sharp-eyed four year old spots previously unrecorded slime mould in Kings Park

Perth: Sharp-eyed four year old spots previously unrecorded slime mould in Kings Park

By Roz Hart, Fungimap President My four year old grandson Miles Hart was playing in the natural areas playground in Kings Park, Perth, when he noticed what looked like small greeny-blue and some bronze-gold metallic balls sticking at the base and up a tree s...

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