Probably not the best kept secret for a variety of reasons but big old Chestnut trees around the Dandenongs (Kallista, Olinda, Monbulk, The Patch) do occasionally produce Boletus edulis – the classic Porcini / Cep, first confirmed in the Dandenongs in 2018. After years of hearing whispers about various locations – particularly The Patch – we were lucky enough to happen on this specimen:
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…
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…
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…
Often forgotten in favour of more popular species, the Shaggymane is still an impressive culinary gourmet mushroom in its own right, although its habit of disintegrating into an inky mass…
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…
