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 ...

This year’s national fungi bioblitz was indeed the largest in Australia’s history, with 13,309 records of 1,131 species contributed by 1,973 participants nationwide over the month of May. Of the 13,309 records, we had 4,208 sightings contributed on QuestaG...

Launching today, you can be part of our second annual national fungi bioblitz, hopefully the biggest in history in Australia! https://www.biosmart.life/australian-fungi-quest-2023 To get involved, you need to upload any fungi you see anywhere in Australia thr...