by Sapphire McMullan-Fisher This critically endangered Tea-tree Fingers fungus (TTF, Hypocreopsis amplectens). was spotted for the first time at Baw Baw National Park. As the crow flies this is only about 100 km from the Yarra Valley site. With all the fabulou...
Tag: Conservation
Margery Smith OAM and her collection of fungi stamps by Tom May
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...
The 3F’s: Flora. Fauna. Funga.
Fungimap is seeking to work with conservation organisations to explicitly recognise fungi alongside fauna and flora in conservation language, policy and advocacy. Across Australia, conservation organisations are doing extraordinary work to protect species, res...
This Election: Focus on Fungi
Fungi play a fundamental role in sustaining life on Earth. Fungi are important, not only in their own right as a large component of biodiversity (an estimated 2.5 million species), but also because of its connections and support of other organisms along with t...
Conservation on Tea-tree Fingers
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 Hymenochaetopsis and Hymenochaete species...