Fun Fungi Ecology

The hidden links in the ecosystem

The Mycelium

Cover: Integrating fungi into biodiversity research & monitoring to improve conservation, restoration & resilience outcomes at Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve — Photo courtesy of The Friends of Mary Cairncross Association Shhhhh, don’t tell all the other tourists, but visitors to the Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve (MCSR) quietly enjoy the best views of the sprawling majesty of Daki comon/Glass House Mountains in the Sunshine Coast hinterland. Among the well-maintained paths of this […]
Improved management for special rainforest remnant

Great news for Australasian fungi conservation this winter with a new population of the Critically Endangered Tea-tree Fingers (TTF, Hypocreopsis amplectens) being found by local fungal enthusiast Tannar. It was great spotting as TTF is a cryptic brown fungus that lives on smaller branches that have often fallen to the […]

Tea-tree Fingers is found in the Otways

August 2, 2024 in conservation / Fire / Macrofungi / Projects / Updates by myco

We are delighted to be stocking a new A5 sized folded pocket field guide on Australian field mushrooms. Find below links to our shop if you would like to get some. South Eastern Australian field mushrooms: a glimpse at Agaricus Many people develop a fascination for all things fungal when […]

A5 field guide to South Eastern Australian field mushrooms

August 1, 2024 in Field guides / Macrofungi / Publications / Updates tagged field guides / mushrooms by myco

For over a decade there has been the possibility that the critically endangered fungus Tea-tree Fingers (Hypocreopsis amplectens or TTF) has been living in New England National Park. A record of the elusive fungus was sent to Fungimap in 2015 by a new fungi enthusiast Maria had seen a picture […]

New England searches for Tea-tree Fingers

June 3, 2024 in conservation / Macrofungi / Updates tagged conservation / Fungi by myco

I am delighted to have worked on a collectable set of illustrated fungi cards from around the world! These were be launched at the Victorian Moorabool Mushroom Festival on Saturday 15 April 2023. The Deck of Mushrooms: An Illustrated Field Guide to Fascinating Fungi by Dr Sapphire McMullan-Fisher For those […]

Illustrated cards launch

February 27, 2023 in Updates tagged Global / Macrofungi / Merchandise by myco

This event raised $200 to support Fungi4Land. To watch the ABC Gardening Australia from segment here. We are keen gardeners, mycologists, ecologists & conservationists: Ema Corro Tasha Nicholls Roz Hart Sapphire McMullan-Fisher Our discussion will be facilitated by Melvin Xu. Questions will be submitted through the chat function. Sapphire, Roz […]

Fungi friendly gardening chat

March 18, 2022 in Events / Updates tagged Australia / Fungi / Gardening / Management by myco

During the La Nina summer 2021-22 in Australia a number of social media posts about a rust that lives on one of our native peas (Bossiaea) often on the pea pods. So we (Zenobia, Sapphire & Fran) wanted to share some information about this native Bossiaea rust (Aecidium eburneum). Rusts are […]

A fab native rust

January 15, 2022 in Problem fungi / Updates tagged biotrophic / indigenous / native plants / pathogen / problem fungi / Rust fungi by myco

Most Australian indigenous fungi still need to be named and our understanding of the biology including distributions and associations with other species needs active work. The first step is to just start recording digital records of fungi that you see around using iNaturalist. Research grade observations go into the Atlas […]

Collecting fungi to build our knowledge

November 9, 2020 in Projects / Updates tagged Collecting / Echinochaete / FungiSight / Lost fungi / Macrofungi / MYCOmmunity / Polypores / Rubinoboletus balloui / taxonomy by myco

Running through the land of the Wurundjeri people, the headwaters of Merri Creek rise in rural landscapes then meander through Melbourne’s rapidly developing residential and industrial corridors. It passes through valuable remnants, including the critically endangered Grasslands (we have less than 2% left) Galgi Ngarrk and Bababi Djinanang. I trust you are […]

Merri Fungi

August 17, 2020 in Macrofungi / Projects / Updates tagged Agaricus / Macrofungi / Merri Creek / Slime mould / Urban fungi by myco

Nothocastoreum cretaceum is triggered to fruit from the soil after fire. They look like little stars that have been left behind in the ash. The empty stars have spread their fine grey spores, hopefully some will become mycorrhizal partners of the regenerating plants. So far this single truffle-like species (monotypic genus […]

Star truffle appears after fire

June 22, 2019 in Fire / Macrofungi tagged fire / forest / Macrofungi / Nothocastoreum cretaceum / truffles by myco

So we have been back from a fabulous couple of weeks in Northern Queensland for a couple of weeks now. Cooler here in Melbourne but the warm glow of our time with lovely enthusiastic locals still lingers. The first pocket guide for the Australian Tropics was launched in style by […]

Tropical Fun Too

April 7, 2019 in Projects by myco