Media release: Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria Scientists and volunteers from Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria have discovered the largest population of Australia’s oddest and most critically endangered fungus on French Island, Victoria. Tea-Tree Fingers (Hypoc...
Category: Tea-tree Fingers
Conservation work continues on Tea-tree Fingers
By Sapphire McMullan-Fisher 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 Hymenochaetop...
Australian fungi included on IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Tom May, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria Earlier this month, 51 species of fungi were formally added to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, as a result of assessments carried out at the Australasian Fungi Red List Workshop held in Melbourne in July. This i...
Tea-tree Fingers project – photo monitoring
The largest known population of Hypocreopsis amplectens – Tea-tree Fingers is at the Wanderslore sanctuary at Launching Place, Vic. – a Trust for Nature property. These were discovered in July 2017 by the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria and have...
Hypocreopsis amplectens – Tea-tree Fingers
On dead and living branches of tea-tree, paperbark and banksia in long-unburnt coastal stands in Victoria. This firm-textured, brown, irregularly shaped species forms a raised mass which clasps dead branches with light brown, finger-like lobes. Generously spon...