Margery Smith was a pioneer fungimapper and a passionate advocate for fungi. With moves to auction Margery’s collection of stamps, donated to Fungimap, I thought it a good opportunity to have a look in the Fungimap archives held at Royal Botanic Gardens Vict...
Category: Fungi record
Great Aussie Fungi Hunt 2024
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
THE GREAT AUSSIE FUNGI HUNT 2024
Join The GREAT AUSSIE FUNGI HUNT 2024 – Agarics, Polypores, Earthstars, Corals, Stinkhorns, Morels, Lichen, Slime Molds… the list goes on … It doesn’t matter where you live – in the forest, in the city, near the beach, or in the desert – explor...
New resource: how to photograph and describe my fungus
Catherine Marciniak (@planet_fungi) and Susie Webster from Fungimap have kindly put together a free downloadable field guide for photographing and describing fungal specimens (complete with beautiful photos by Steve Axford!) It also includes a step-by-step pro...
Entoloma ravinense – endangered
Mycologists, people who study fungi, get very excited when they come across rare or interesting species or groups of species. One such is a group of small, almost stemless gilled fungi, in the subgenus Claudopus. We have been surveying the fungi in the park...