The colours of autumn and winter 2018
Well the 2018 Fungi season in the Dandenong Ranges started very slow – a long period of virtually no rain between December 26 to around April made grass remain dry…
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Boletus edulis – Porcini – 100% confirmed in the Dandenong Ranges
When I was chatting to a mother at school drop off about mushrooms I never suspected that one of the mushrooms she was mentioning to me would turn out to…
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Flammulina velutipes – wild Enokitake – Velvet Shank
Autumn and winter 2018 has been a great season for Flammulina velutipes. Some massive bunches popping up from Poplar and Pomaderris stumps around Selby. The velvety stipe, that darkens as…
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Australian Morchella Species – new article / updated
As you may be aware there are few mushroom genus more highly prized than the Morel / Morchella. Chefs and cooks alike rate them as highly as the lofty porcini/ceps,…
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More successful Far North Queensland Chanterelle finds – Chanterelles Australia
Thanks to a new friend up in Far North Queensland we were happy to hear of a large FNQ chanterelle find up that way. Apparently there were thousands below what…
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Agaricus flocculosipes – an edible species of the arvensis clade – updated!
I would have sworn this mushroom was Agaricus augustus and it seemed to have many of its macroscopic characteristics. So I was very surprised to get a DNA sequence for…
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Chicken of the woods – Laetiporus Australian find
Matt Kelly from up near the Gold Coast managed to find this meaty Laetiporus – the genus of the much coveted Chicken of the Woods – although the exact species…
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Agaricus ‘No Stain Pine forest’ – JF495040
A frequent Agaricus that we find in both Pinus radiata and native forest in the southern Dandenongs, is a large, scaled cap species with brownish to purplish colouring, white to…
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Monster of suburbia – massive Pleurotus ostreatus find (cloned)
Driving through a random street in the suburbs in the foothills of the Dandenongs and we spotted a monster! What a massive and amazing creature! Two massive fruitbodies of a…
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Beef steak fungus – Fistulina hepatica
During our foraging hikes recently we happened upon a beafsteak fungus growing off a very healthy looking Messmate Eucalypt. I was very excited as I had been looking for this…
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Jonas finds the Black Trumpet
Not that long ago Jonas Bellchambers found a bracket fungi that looked a lot like Chicken of the Woods somewhere in NSW. Now Jonas has done it again – this…
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February King Stropharia mayhem!!
We got a great tip from our friend Claire about a large stand of King Stropharia fruiting on the plateau behind the Dandenongs on mass. Upon arriving at the location…
