Victorian Porcini and Symon’s Black Trumpet Brass Band
A couple of quick updates from this year’s mushroom season – which was a fantastic one especially if you like Lepista nuda – although lockdown … Read more
A couple of quick updates from this year’s mushroom season – which was a fantastic one especially if you like Lepista nuda – although lockdown … Read more
Wandering back from a mushroom hike with John Ford of King Oyster mushrooms I walked near a stand of Oak and Chestnut trees in a … Read more
Our current favourite species is this large often pink to wine-capped Agaricus that is often associated with Pinus radiata and in largish troops in native … Read more
Well it took a while but some detective work finally paid off and we found the Victorian Craterellus species – our local Horn of Plenty … Read more
Dave up in NNSW was finding these ‘King Stropharia/Stropharia rugosoannulata’ growing in cow manure that were often white or bone in colour. The collection was … Read more
Its not every day you find black morels in the suburbs of Melbourne and not every day you find them growing in newly-laid garden mulch … Read more
Well the 2018 Fungi season in the Dandenong Ranges started very slow – a long period of virtually no rain between December 26 to around … Read more
When I was chatting to a mother at school drop off about mushrooms I never suspected that one of the mushrooms she was mentioning to … Read more
Autumn and winter 2018 has been a great season for Flammulina velutipes. Some massive bunches popping up from Poplar and Pomaderris stumps around Selby. The … Read more
As you may be aware there are few mushroom genus more highly prized than the Morel / Morchella. Chefs and cooks alike rate them as … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more