The 2026 fungal foray was held at Karamea in the South Island (West Coast). From 19th – 25th April 2026 at "The Last Resort". It was the first foray for a number of years where accommodation, hall facilities and meals were all in the same facility.
Registration for the 2026 fungal foray is now open to the public, FUNNZ members were given notification via email.
Places are extremely limited, contact Renee Johansen on [email protected], as places may become available due to cancellations
The 2026 fungal foray will be held at Karamea in the South Island (West Coast). From 19th – 25th April 2026. The foray hall will be at "The Last Resort" they have a range of accommodation and will be doing the meal plan.
FUNNZ has partnered with Tumbleweed Tees, who have drawn up a T-shirt design showing a variety of NZ fungi to help raise funds for the organisation to provide mycology scholarships. Get yours today!
$5 From each sale goes to FUNNZ.
Clive Shirley of the Hidden forest website has recently published a series of PDF eBooks as a photo guide to New Zealand fungi.
Book 1 can be downloaded for free, the others are available for just $40 for the set.
MYCELIAL FUNGI by Sue Edmonds
We look to space for other worlds
Know little of the maze beneath our feet
Where grow mycelial labyrinths
Connected and coordinated dwellers.
Their swarms of hyphal tips move endlessly
Through spaces in our soils as tubes of threads
Transport networks of rivers of cellular fluids
Finding chemicals, receiving carbohydrates.
A symbiotic mesh with plants which grow above
Where animals put food in their own bodies
Fungi put their bodies into foods
Shapeshifters moving through our soils.
The rare and endangered Macrocystidia reducta (Fishy Pouch Fungus) smells a bit like rotten fish and looks like a pouch. It is only found on Banks Peninsula in native podocarp forest, listen below for the audio clip, and for more information check out these links:
FUNNZ member Anna Chinn (Journalist and mushroom romantic) has published an article on Aotearoa/New Zealand luminescent fungi. Check it out here: https://www.darksky.org/a-fungal-fairy-land-revisited/
Long time FUNNZ member Shirley Kerr as written an updated field guide to identifying New Zealand fungi. The book can be purchased from her website here: https://www.kaimaibush.co.nz/fungi/fungi-books.html
Congratulations to the Ross Beever Memorial Trust on gaining charity approval No. CC52317, see objects and details here on the charities website.
Donations greater than $5 are tax deductible. For grant applications see www.funnz.org.nz/RBMMA
