Article and images by Tijana Petrovic A wise mycologist once advised a group of fungi enthusiasts on learning to identify fungi: “Start with one genus, an easy one like Amanita, and learn the morphological characters listed on the identification sheet.&#...

By Sophie Green (Project Coordinator, Fungi for Function) We’ve now successfully reached the end of our first Fungi for Function pilot season, our citizen science grant project in South Australia! Our key achievements to date: We certainly had some chall...

An under-collected bird’s nest fungus, Mycocalia denudata by Pam and David Catcheside On a recent survey on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, in early August 2024, we collected a small bird’s nest fungus (PSC4956) growing on kangaroo dung; morphologically ...

Check out this video on our YouTube channel to see find out how to participate in this year’s Great Aussie Fungi Hunt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8UueQD603c  

Have you uploaded observations on to an iNaturalist project or participated in a citizen science activity? If the answer is yes, then give yourself a pat on the back! The critical role of citizen scientists has been in the spotlight recently, in two related ar...