Sunday 11 May 2008, Arrival
One of the great things about our fungal forays is that we get people from all over the world coming along to foray with us. The 22nd NZ Fungal Foray was no different, with 49 people attending from New Zealand, Great Britain, Tasmania, USA, Sweden and Japan.
Registration and payment due by: 31st March 2013. Download registration form at the end of this page. The 2013 foray will be based at Matawai, midway between Opotiki and Gisborne, in the East Cape region, from Sunday 12th May to Saturday 18th May 2013. The area offers a wide variety of vegetation types, including Nothofagus, podocarp and broadleaf forests.
The 2013 foray will be held at Matawai, situated halfway between Gisborne and Opotiki in the East Cape region.
Dates: Sunday 12th May to Sat 18th May 2013.
A major new publication from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and IUCN addresses the question "Priceless or Worthless?" concerning some of the globe's most endangered species. A list of 100 species is used as examples of likely extinctions unless humans intervene. And included among the 100 - as a world first - is a FUNGUS! At last - recognition at global level that fungi can be threatened too!
Geoff Ridley, past mycologist at SCION and author of popular guides on New Zealand Fungi, maintains a blog ...
Species list from 26th Foray in Riverton
Green-fingered and threatened plant scientist Dr Peter de Lange from the Department of Conservation on the great bio-mass that grows around us... so, what is a plant?!"
We now have an easy blogging format on FUNNZ.org.nz where you can add your notes on all things mycological. Jerry Cooper has already added ten posts on everything from Frost flat fungi to the Yin-Yang fungus.
This afternoon the Radio New Zealand National show "This Way Up" had a 31 min feature on NZ fungi and foraying.
Simon Morton (the presenter) spoke to Eugenia Bone, chair of the New York Mycological Society and the author of 'Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms', and spoke to NZ mycologist Geoff Ridley. Listen below:
The report and the full list of species collected at the 2011 fungal foray in taupo is now online. Download the reports below:
