Agaricus bitorquis Often called the pavement mushroom or the conifer agaricus, this mushroom is actually quite closely related to your standard, typical supermarket button mushroom (see also Agaricus bernardii). It…
Davenwolf Dagger has done it again – this time managing to not only find the elusive native Aussie Shiitake species – Lentinula lateritia (which we recently confirmed matched phylogenetic type…
For a number of years connections of mine up in and around Cairns and Kuranda in Far North Queensland have been raving about the local chanterelle (Cantharellus) species such as…
Hi everyone we are pleased to announce that we have added to King Stropharia spawn bags to our inventory with another 10 very close to also being ready – so…
While there are a number of almond / marzipan smelling Agaricus such as the Marzipan Agaricus in southern Australia, two separate collections from South Eastern Queensland and Adelaide turned out…
An interesting find in Selby recently was the Australian wild equivalent of the often cultivated enoki (more finds documented in our 2018 article) / enokitake mushroom – here growing on…
A superb mushroom with a strong scent of almonds, this mushroom was initially collected wild in a secluded location in the Dandenong Ranges – resembling a small Agaricus augustus in…
An interesting native Armillaria species we often see is Armillaria luteobubalina. A very common mushroom on old stumps around the Dandenongs, documented in our 2018 season update and Victoria in…
Well the 2016 wild mushroom season in the Dandenongs has been unusually poor with some small periods of rain interposed with longer periods of very dry conditions. Despite this the…
In Selby and surrounds we frequently encounter a white Hydnum (Wood Hedgehog) species that is often described in guides as Hydnum repandum – an edible species found in Europe and…
One of the most interesting local Agaricus is the Victorian brown-capped red stainer. The most common variant is a dense, thickly scaled Agaricus species with brown to occasionally almost purple…
Easter Sunday we were excited to see a nice first flush of Lepista sordida (confirmed via DNA) – a small tester bag of colonised rye grass seed and sawdust innoculated…