Our first Covid-19 fungi foray was held at member Lyn Myles property in Glen Forrest on Sunday 5 July 2020. It is a lovely area of Jarrah bushland, abutting onto National Park. Twenty-seven participants, including 6 Fungi leaders, divided into 3 smaller groups and together found 44 species of fungi. ...
Read more →Tag: Fungi Study Group
6 July 2019 On a rather soggy Saturday morning, 17 Nats’ Club members and friends held a Fungal Foray at Lyn Myles place which is tucked away in Glen Forrest. Her property borders onto national park, close to Mundaring Weir. Lyn’s property is jarrah/marri regrowth woodland with balgas, banksias and ...
Read more →Slime Mould Aficionado and Club Member Margaret Brims became known to the Fungi Group of the club in 2004 when she provided much needed expertise on a group of organisms that we came across during our fungi forays. They weren’t exactly fungi, but while looking for new things we found ...
Read more →Kings Park fungi researcher Dr Matt Barrett has asked to be contacted if anyone in WA comes across any fresh Stonemaker fungi: Laccocephalum species. Stonemakers are the amazing ‘fire fungi’ that pop up from a sclerotium, a tuber-like hyphal mass sometimes incorporating soil particles, hence the common name ‘stonemaker’. They ...
Read more →Fungi Pocket guide to Mushrooms and other Fungi of South West Western Australia by Sapphire McMullan-Fisher and Katrina Syme, published by the Western Australian Naturalists’ Club. Contains 91 common mushrooms and other fungi from South West WA with images from the region: Kalbarri to Ravensthorpe, including Perth and the south ...
Read more →The Fungi book presentation at the Main October meeting was the final step in a very special project that we can all be very proud of. Our Club enabled this project, which would never have happened without its involvement. The WA Naturalists’ Club, with partners like the UBC, has taken ...
Read more →‘Fungi-gals’ Sapphire Mc Mullen and Roz Hart are arranging to print a special order of gorgeous mycologically-themed clothing in collaboration with a high quality supplier of batik. As those of you who purchased the fungi shirts initially conceived for the 2011 Fungimap conference are well aware, these cotton clothes are ...
Read more →Remember the fungi grant that the club co-funded for three years, together with ABRS, for Dr Neale Bougher to work on the fungus family Inocybiaceae? At last, the book is finally going to be in print! After a lot of hiccups, lack of funding for ABRS and other associated ABRS ...
Read more →Updated version now available The local fungi guidebook Fungi of the Perth Region and Beyond was last published in 2009 by the WA Naturalists’ Club and has since been freely available on-line on the club’s website. Now a 2017 revised version can be viewed and/or downloaded at the same website ...
Read more →All details for this event are now in the calendar. Click on the following link. Fungi Survey at Cypress Farm
Read more →