Our friends, Fungal Network of NZ, are running a 4-day foray and 1-day colloquium next year at Awakeri – a hot springs area – near the north coast of the North Island, May 12-18 2019. Awakeri has easy access to forests and spectacular reserves in t...

We have been blessed with wonderful new books this fungi season and this 2nd revised and updated edition of Where the slime mould creeps by Sarah Lloyd is the latest. Order your copy from the Fungimap Shop here. ‘Where the slime mould creeps’ introduces ...

In litter of open woodlands and in eucalyptus mulch. Bright red arms arise from a white to pink hollow stem which bursts from an egg. An olive-green slimy spore mass coats the surface of the arms and smells like rotting meat. Flies, attracted to this, distribu...

On dead wood in wet native forests. Large, thin, funnel-shaped fruit-bodies are often massed on fallen logs, and the exposed smooth lower surface glows golden in gloomy light. Coloured bands on the velvety upper surface grade from brown near the base through o...

On dead wood, cosmopolitan. Growing in tiers, the upper surface of this soft, leathery, shelf-like species has a dense covering of hairs over concentric zones of pale yellow and orange-brown. The lower surface is smooth and coloured in zones of pale yellows an...