This blog is about all things mycological, it is great for small articles that don't need to go into the member's reports section. Anyone who has signed up as a user of this website can post here.
A note from Jerry - Currently (Nov. 2012) all the entries here are mine. Don't let this put you off adding entries. I use this site to make available work I don't intend to publish (in this form at least) and which otherwise wouldn't be widely available but which might be of interest. The entries are not peer reviewed so please also use the feedback facility to stimulate discussion.
Jerry Cooper, September 2012
The familiar scarlet pouch fungus can be quite variable in appearance and that has caught out more than one mycologist, including me. Here I describe that variability, and I also predict this fungus will eventually spread around the world on wood chips.
Jerry Cooper, August 2012
How many species of fungi are described per year globally and in New Zealand? How many fungi are there left to be named? How have these figures been changing over time? I'm involved in managing a number of databases with the relevan facts and figures.
Macrocystidia reducta is a distinctive secotioid fungus which appears to be localised to the Banks Peninsula. It is the only secotioid member of a genus which is phylogentically isolated and with just 6 described species. Have you seen this fungus?
Passive surveillance by the general public forms an important part of our biosecurity system. We all have a legal duty to report 'organisms not normally seen'. As mycologists (professionals and otherwise) we see a lot of stuff not normally seen. Here's a contribution to the surveillance effort, and some comments on the current system.
Jerry Cooper, July 2012
Some notes on the bracket fungi Postia caesia, Aurantiporus pulcherrimus and Antrodiella zonata and the opinionated C.G. Lloyd (1859-1926)
Jerry Cooper, July 2012.
In the mycological world Hagley Park is famous for its population of Boletus edulis ...
Jerry Cooper, June 2012
Pat Leonard and I recently described this new species of Boletopsis mycorrhizal with beech. The genus has not previously been recorded in the southern hemisphere.
Jerry Cooper, June 2012
Bondarzewia berkeleyi is the name given to a big yellow polypore in New Zealand, but sequence evidence suggest is isn't really this species.
Jerry Cooper, June 2012
Not all grey gelatinous blobs are Sirobasidium brefeldianum.
Jerry Cooper, June 2012Notes on the current status of this genus in New Zealand
