A couple of quick updates from this year’s mushroom season – which was a fantastic one especially if you like Lepista nuda – although lockdown rules and the state of the world limited it to an extent for many.
Firstly we received many reports of Boletus edulis appearing around the state of Victoria – in four distinct regions which is exciting. Shane Brew got his hands on these in a secret Victoria location:
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…
Introduced on its mycorrhizal host plant, Pinus radiata, and now widespread throughout pine plantation and groves throughout Southern Australia from Perth to Hobart, Melbourne to New South Wales, this mushroom…
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…
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…
Marasmius oreades – the fairy ring mushroom The Fairy Ring Champignon is a cute little guy that appears in open or manured grasslands in sometimes quite amazing fairy rings. The…
