Agaricus augustus
For quite a while Ive been puzzled by online and guidebook descriptions and observations of Agaricus augustus in southern Australia and particularly in Victoria. Nearly always these mushrooms described as…
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Agaricus ‘aniseedy’ – an edible member of xanthodermatei?
Periodically I had been finding some small Agaricus species with no staining, a mild smell of aniseed and an overpowering flavour of aniseed when cooked or consumed. Natasha said the…
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Agaricus ‘mini-arvensis’ – JF495061
A cute little almond-smelling Agaricus we found all over sheep pasture I Narre Warren one year and then never again was this cute little guy from within section arvensis.
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Cordyceps gunnii
By chance a neighbour of mine was cutting down a large Acacia and was burning the ground below it and had stumbled upon these. He asked me whether they were…
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Website ordering problems resolved
[protected]Hi everyone – we are pleased to announce that the problems with the ordering page on our website have been resolved. Thanks for your patience. We aimed to reopen on…
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Feral blue oyster fruited on wheatstraw
The first flush from our tester grows of the feral/wild-cloned Selby oyster strain on wheat straw. Nice and blue! We are awaiting DNA sequencing of this mushroom before making…
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Australian Chanterelle (Cantharellus concinnus) | Cantharellus concinnus | Interesting species | Wild Picked
Cantharellus concinnus
The most common Chanterelle species in the Dandenongs and wide Yarra ranges is the petite orange to pink Cantharellus concinnus. The concept of concinnus has likely been applied to multiple…
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Feral Blue Oysters – A Selby surprise
Walking my dog the other morning we came upon a surprise – a massive bunch of Blue Oysters (possibly Pleurotus ostreatus var. columbinus) growing off mulch pushed behind a treated pine…
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2015 hunting season has been great
Well the 2015 mushroom hunting season has been massive!! It got off to a slow start before a bumper crop of just about every species started popping up. While we…
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Lepista sordida (the lilac blewit)
An interesting petite native Lepista that we recently confirmed – via DNA extraction and sequencing – to be Lepista sordida sourced from a wild collection from New South Wales, this…
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Suillus bovinus (the Bovine Bolete) – A new arrival in Selby
At a stand of Pinus radiata in Selby where we often find a lot of Grey Ghost (Tricholoma terreum) and Saffron Milk Cap (Lactarius deliciosus) we found these interesting little…
