Fungal Network of New Zealand

Geoff Ridley, past mycologist at SCION and author of popular guides on New Zealand Fungi, maintains a blog ...

http://sporesmouldsandfungi.wordpress.com

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?!"

Radio Programme

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:

STRICT DEADLINE: Registration and payment due by: 20th April 2012. The 26th New Zealand Fungal Foray will be based at The Globe Backpackers and Bar and the RSA Memorial Club Hall, Riverton from Sunday 6th– Saturday 12th May. The RSA Hall is directly across the road from the Globe Backpackers, and are both in the main street of Riverton, Southland. Riverton is a coastal town 20 minutes drive (30 km) from Invercargill, in Southland, New Zealand.

Flickr is a photosharing website, and there is a group there dedicated to photos of NZ fungi: http://www.flickr.com/groups/nzfungi/ This picture of Coprinellus disseminatus is one example of the great photos available on the Flickr website.

Jerry has added three new member's reports on Protecting small-scale herbarium collections from attack by insects and moulds, a draft nomenclator of basidiomycetes (exc. rusts) recorded from the Pacific Islands, and a report on some fungi recorded from the Cook Islands.

This year the fungal foray will be in Riverton, Southland from 6th May until morning of 12th May 2012. The accommodation will be at the Globe Backpackers, but numbers are limited to about 29, so please register your interest to secure a place. Accommodation elsewhere can be organised privately. There are a number of alternative types of accommodation available in Riverton. The Microscopes and meals will be in the RSA hall across the road.