What an amazing fungi season it’s been! Much variety and lots of them. After a slow start, winter finally arrived with lots of rain on the west coast here in WA.
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New Bendigo field guide
Written by Joy Clusker and Ray Wallace with beautiful photography by Joy, this is the first field guide to the fungi of the Bendigo region and has an emphasis on the dryer areas north of Bendigo. It covers 284 species and a further ~200 yet to be identified. P...
Landcare embraces fungi
Landcare officially became a national programme in 1989 although efforts to restore and revegetate damaged land have been happening since the 1950s. Today there are over 5,000 Landcare groups in Australia and the idea has spread beyond our shores to a further ...
Stop ‘weedy’ fungi spread
Fungal ‘weeds’ have been introduced or hitch-hiked into Australia and many are now well established, spreading from parks and gardens into bushlands with significant potential to threaten biodiversity. Like plant weeds, these fungi are displacing the nati...
1st WA Fungi Festival a success!
The Manjimup highlights: Forest, Fungi and Fauna for Families held at Tone-Perup Nature Reserve, where Roz Hart gave an entertaining display of why fungi are such vital food for marsupials and their poo so good for truffles! 50 adults and children went bu...