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...
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Want to improve your fungus photography skills?
Catherine Marciniak (Fungimap and @planet_fungi) and Susie Webster from Fungimap have kindly put together a free downloadable field guide for photographing and describing fungal specimens (complete with beautiful photos by Steve Axford!) It also includes a ste...
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...
Monitoring Tea-tree Fingers 2023
By Sapphire McMullan-Fisher, Michael Amor and Shari Bamos Tea-tree Fingers (TTF, Hypocreopsis amplectens) is listed as Critically Endangered on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature Red List and the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, Victoria. We ...