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…
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Agaricus bitorquis – the pavement mushroom
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…
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Lentinula lateritia – the Australian native Shiitake
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…
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FNQ native Australian chanterelle – updated
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…
